Agreed! There are many benefits to designing an actuator specifically for the application at hand, and I have nothing but respect for the innovative approaches described above. I mean seriously, James' 3D-printed actuator is crazy awesome!
I just put two and two together, however, that the OP was actually a Bosch intern scouting out the potential demand for the self-same linear actuator that I posted above. In other words, the Bosch linear actuator was
only donated as a FIRST Choice option-- and
only became an allowable COTS motor--
because of the initial positive response in this thread that showed that FRC teams would indeed be interested in having that option available.
Pretty cool to see this come full circle like that.
Quitting FIRST was so hard that I felt like I needed a 12 steps program to help me through it. - Ken Leung [more] 
15-07-2015, 14:50
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