pic: OH GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE???

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Aren_Hill

you've made quite a nifty arrangement of manipulation.

As a driver id be a little intimidated to operate that with any dexterity unless i just had a miniature of it on the OI then it would work fairly well.

idk if you'll be able to pull off 1 fp down at the bottom to move that thing it looks like its getting fairly hefty up top. Im probably wrong though FP's are beasts (our shooter this past year is proof).

this thing would be very impressive to see on a bot

I second the feeling that it is nifty.

As it stands right now I would write a series of equations that will give you the position in a 2d plane (aligned along the face of the large sprocket) and then work them backwards. These equations would be pretty scary to figure out but once you do them and solve them for x and y you can just use a series of buttons to control it. If you added on a turret you just have to know that that plane will rotate. In all honesty it actually isn't that hard to control. If your driver wanted to be able to control it he could just have a stick to tell it to increase the distance in the y direction or the x direction.

On an unrelated side note, roboticWanderor, your cads are impressive and an inspiration.