Minibot Deployment Brainstorm!

[Andrew Zeller]

Originally Posted by Nemisis

Ah nice! thank You for the Reply! Our team thought about using a pneumatic cylinder for that too, however we've already got two being used, one to raise our arm and the other for the grabber at the end... and with using a single small compresser, we dont really want to use any more cylinders. We're using the largest cylinder that Bimba makes! i think its like 2 feet long nearly! lol Thank You again for sharing!

My team's arm is raised using a winch powered by a motor, so we will use three pneumatic cylinders- a tiny one for the grabber, a small/medium sized one for the minibot deployment system and a medium sized one to push our forklift past the bumpers (check out this post http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=90804 ). We do have quite a few small air tanks on or robot- we'll really be pushing the weight limit. My team got that huge Bimba one as well. We were thinking of using it for the minibot deployment because it was so long, but it was way to big, heavy, and inefficient.