Welcome to the channel, I do most things engineering/mechanics related. Mostly old robotics content for now. I work on cars for the most part now. I like Sh#tBoxes a lot. Current Projects: 1997 EK Civic Hatch
I don’t use a braking drive program, I use a drift brake, and it’s pretty consistent, I also have a padding on the claw, so it prevents mogo from bouncing off
It’s just a redesign of a pto, you basically save an entire motor, and there’s infinite pneumatics, so it’s got a lot of advantages and versatility. However it is a pain to build lol
I use rubber bands to lighten the pull on the motors from the weight of the four bar. I also coded the motors to brake when it’s not moving, that way they hold the lift in the same position.
There's a return gear that is locked on the shaft. It locks the motion of the gear that is attached to the lift. I plan on making an explanation video once I make the design more compact and better. Basically tho, there's two gears that spin freely on the shaft, that are attached to each other, And a gear that is locked to the shaft. When the piston pushes, it locks it, and when it releases the air, it brings the loose power gears back into the lift, allowing you to move the lift up and down. Kinda hard to explain, but i'll have a video soon
hey, love the build ! we are basically doing the same idea with the front fork lift, but we can’t seem to support the forks from going down past horizontal when it’s holding a goal. can you make another video on how yours is reinforced and doesn’t go past the 90 degree angle (horizontal). and last question is it all on a motor or pneumatic, or is it completely passive
I don't have any photos or videos of this design, because I upgraded to pneumatics. I'll try to explain it though, I have this bar that sits behind the pivot point. It points 90 degrees upward when unfolded, and catches on a bracket that's mounted to the fourbar. Its not complex, just a piece of c channel going across the fourbar, and 2 small L channels sticking out from the fork. If you can, try to use a Pneumatic claw instead. The Fork design worked, but it didn't perform well and hold the goals well. Other bots would bump you and you'd lose the goal, and if you drove to fast you would lose the goal. Hope this was a good explanation lol
It’s just basic screw joints, when lifting up, it usually flips out correctly. We have plans on just swapping it to pneumatics, but we can’t afford those quite yet lol
@@TannerT231 Okay awesome thanks! Very impressive being able to use one motor for each lift. Also were having problems with our 4 bar lifting a mogo and tipping any tips on fixing that?
@@jaydannorr7859 I just geared it for power, using a green motor. Also having a wider spacing between the four bar helps. The more holes between each bar the more power. Even just one hole more makes a huge difference. The wider the gap, the more power you get, but you do lose slight range. Hope that helps!
