pic: Team 842 Arm and Grabber Concept

[ewrado]

Originally Posted by squirrel

Ahhh...so that's what it looks like. Neato! Might be easier to devise a way to mount the "mast" if you put it at the other end of the robot? (ie. turn the whole chassis 180 degrees from how it is now)

I'd suggest you add sheet aluminum to your materials arsenal....but you'll have to do some fancy political maneuvering to get past the "fiberglass only" mindset

Yeah the cad is not right the mast will be on the other side not under the motors as for the mounting it will be strongly supporter on the base and triangulation with guide wire or angel maybe aluminum tube

[The Lucas]

That reminds me of 1523's arm in 2007.

[ewrado]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

That reminds me of 1523's arm in 2007.

similar but it more of an up and down movement we will hopefully have a video soon

[TheOtherGuy]

Neat! I can't wait to see it in real life

The mast reminds me of our 2007 robot, which had a round mast in roughly the same location. We attached a block on the belly pan that fit inside the bottom of the tube and then cut a hole in a sheet of aluminum that was then attached to the frame across the top.

http://www.photos.project1726.org/al...0/IMG_1681.JPG