New zipline climber paddles
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- Josh worked with Matt and Bennet in order to design a way to possibly make stronger paddles to hit the zipline climber levers. Through reviewing pictures from the competition they came to the consensus that they should add a thin plastic piece to the end which would flex over the levers and hit the top. This new plastic piece would be thin enough to where it would flex enough to not break the servo, yet has the strength to hit the lever. The flexing makes the plastic hit the top part of the lever instead of the bottom, because the lever is... a lever, the farther you hit it from the fulcrum the less force required to effect it. This means that the plastic bending and aiming towards the top would apply less force overall to the servo, meaning that it would no longer break. On top of this they plan to add support to the base of the servo itself. This will accomplished by having a C channel attached to the servo horn, as well as the back of the servo mount, with a bering. This will mean that any pressure applied to the horn will instead be applied to the C channel, which is stronger and will last much longer than the horn by itself. They are using 1/32 polycarbonate in order to make the arms. They spent this meeting planning how to mount the C channel to the servo mount.
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