pic: what do you think?

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Originally Posted by patrickrd

Looks good to me You just need to figure out a way to get the piston to stop mid-stroke... Maybe two pistons in series?? (don't know if anybody's every tried that ). There's probably quite a few clever mechanisms to do the trick.

- Patrick

I would use a single and double solenoid(multi-positioning pnuematics) with three magnectic reed switches to stop you at the correct positions.

I would presume this would work quite well. I'm not as familiar with the programming side of it but it seems to me that this could be done.