How do you wire a rotating component?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

alleah,
Will I be seeing you this weekend? If so we can discuss this when I see your robot. As a general rule, if you can keep the wires near the center of rotation and leave a little slack, you will be able to turn without damaging the wires. If that is not possible, something like what Jim discussed above will work fairly well. Remember that latex is robot legal and easy to use as a springy tie point for a wiring bundle to keep it out of harms way.

The slip rings shown in the post above use mercury and as such have been ruled to be illegal on our robots. There are however, legal, brush type, slip rings that are available. McMaster had a few in previous years. They are pricey but fit under the single cost rule as I remember.