Check out our grepper

[sitzikbs]

Hi,
Iv made an instructable taht illustrates how we designed, manufactured and assemble the arm gripper.
check out the link
http://www.instructables.com/id/Robo...n-Competition/

what do you think?

[JTN]

I think that gripper will be pretty effective, but you might want to take is off of instructables for fear another team will copy the design.

[demosthenes2k8]

I disagree - I didn't have time to really look at the design, but if a team wants to post their designs online, there's nothing wrong with that. This isn't a competition where we should guard our ideas closely, we should be sharing anything we can, so that others can learn from what we did and, hopefully, improve on them.

[Leav]

Wow!

I like how simple the design is, while it doesn't seem to compromise on gripper strength. very very cool!

Originally Posted by JTN

I think that gripper will be pretty effective, but you might want to take is off of instructables for fear another team will copy the design.

I'm pretty sure that was their whole point when putting it out there. anyone can copy a design, it's copying the design process that's really tricky!

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by demosthenes2k8

I disagree - I didn't have time to really look at the design, but if a team wants to post their designs online, there's nothing wrong with that. This isn't a competition where we should guard our ideas closely, we should be sharing anything we can, so that others can learn from what we did and, hopefully, improve on them.

Exactly. We share ideas to help struggling teams or try to improve on something. It's about working together, not hiding everything about the robot.

Nice gripper should do the trick

[sitzikbs]

Thank you for the compliments.
The idea behind posting this has a story - we found ourselves near the end of the 6 weeks with no working gripper. i thought to myself, surely someone made a good design and shared it. after not finding a design anywhere i decided to design one myself and promised that if it will work propperly i will share it with the world.

And so i did.

I hope whoever wants can use this.