Interesting material usage?

[mman1506]

In one of the iterations of or 2014 bot we used the latex ring from the base of a condom as a belt to transmit rotation between a VP and a absolute encoder. It worked reasonably well but since it was used for position PID on arm we didn't want to risk loosing count as we didn't have a method of quickly re zeroing.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by mman1506

In one of the iterations of or 2014 bot we used the latex ring from the base of a condom as a belt to transmit rotation between a VP and a absolute encoder. It worked reasonably well but since it was used for position PID on arm we didn't want to risk loosing count as we didn't have a method of zeroing.

Please tell me that made it onto the BOM... that's awesome.

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by marshall

Please tell me that made it onto the BOM... that's awesome.

We valued it at under a 1$, it was donated by the school guidance department .

[BariSaxGuy]

We used a chain-lift, and to keep the totes aligned properly we used poster tubes.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...89&oe=55C52C5F