What (primarily) Powers your arm?
We have the dreaded double jointed arm, the shoulder- a highly geared down CIM, and the elbow is a window motor, geared down via small–>large sprockets
HTH
Marcus
You seemed to have forgotten the FP…
And Homer Simpson in a box.
oops… I don’t think I can edit the poll itself…I guess that’ll be the “other”
my bad
As for my bot, we gotta sliding door motor on a 1:6 chain reduction
In all seriousness, do you think FIRST would allow having a hamster wheel as a decorative object? Do they specifically ban any living organisms present on the bot?
The rules flowchart for power sources specifically states “gerbil”.
See: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24536&highlight=gerbil
You forgot >1 hamsters.
we have a planetary gearbox on the arm powered by (specially cloned) hamsters that run the planets (instead of powering the sun). The ring is another hamster. Max torque && max speed. That thing will fly!!
I wonder if there is a limit to how many hamsters we can use…
Really I woudl love to use a hamster or “gerbil” bu ■■■■ one of the worm geared motors were using.
Van door, Fisher Price, and Nippon-Denso.
forget hamsters, use potatoes!
You might also want to have the option, Which arm… Some teams have more than one.
We are using pnuematics and “Other” you will just have out what it is at the NASA Goddard Play Day in D.C.
the sliding door motor moves the arm up and down while the window motor rotates the end, also i think there is another motor in there somewhere, i didn’t design the thing and i have no idea what it happening with it (even though I’m the one building it!).
We use FPs with a worm gear and a custom gearbox for reduction.