pic: FRC 4329 Presents Trogdor

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by lynca

What's the brake caliper for ?

Our original intake pivot used a versaplanetary gearbox to rotate. The idea was that the disc brake would help secure the Intake and hold at a desired position without the need for elastic or stalling the motor. We killed a couple of gearboxes on various defenses and decided to find a way to use pneumatics instead.

We are now looking at 3 position cylinders or to still use the disc brake to halt the motion of the cylinder depending on which position we want via an encoder. The plan is to have a retracted position, intake position and portcullis / chivel de frise position.

All of this happened in the last 4 days so we just left it on for now

Here's a link to a few more images -

http://imgur.com/a/4Zrct