pic: Team 971 Presents: Mammoth

[kevincrispie]

Originally Posted by cadandcookies

Fantastic design. I'll join the praise of that intake-- it really looks like the best I've seen yet.

I'll also join in hoping you guys release olenty of pictures. Such excellent design ought to be shown off!

Do you have any sort of locking on your rotation? If not, what motors are you using for that?

Rotation of the arms or rotation of the intake?

I answered the intake in a previous post, so I'm guessing you mean the arms.

Each jaw is powered by a CIM. The belts at the back along the A frame each go to a gear box. We put the motors down low for weight/COG concerns. We put another reduction up higher on the A frame. We put control loops on the jaws.

We will post some pictures at some point. Since we'll be a competition, we likely won't be able to until after this weekend. The plan is to have all pictures public by the end of the season.