As our team’s students take finals this week (& think about resuming robotics afterward), I’m diving into something I’ve been wanting to learn: 4-bar linkage intakes as explained by Nick Aarestad (@cadandcookies) in the excellent videos to which this post links.
I haven’t extruded anything yet - just want to make sure I’m on the right track here. One specific question: In the linkage sketch below that I overlaid on an early ball path sketch one of the students did, I added a crude sketch of a 4-inch-stroke pneumatic cylinder, but I don’t actually know how to best optimize placement, stroke length, etc. in this scenario. Any Do’s / Don’ts I need to be aware of when connecting to a linkage? Thanks.