Cascading/Telescoping? Passive

[Zesty]

Hi I made an account to ask a question regarding my paddle intake robot. You see we gain a lot of inspiration from the goofy robot documentary and reveal but I wanted to see if anyone knew about telescoping. Also called cascading, I would want it to be passive so when the blocks are pushed against it it will extend allowing more blocks to flow in. A tutorial would be nice I’m in early robotics.

[enothecool]

Firs lt off this in in the wrong category. Second, here are some good links showcasing different Mechanismus and talking about them.

Extending Tray Stage CAD Animation/Guide

Using Inventor I made an animation of a linear extending stage for a tray for Tower Takeover. I have put it on my Youtube page here or below in GIF format. It could be easily integrated into many existing tray designs. [ExtendingTray]

Extending Tray Mk.2

Last night I posted an Inventor animation I made of an exertion mechanism for a tray. After receiving feedback on VTOW as well as here, I made a better version as seen below. This afternoon I designed a new. an better version of an extending tray. It doesn’t use the linear slide rails, instead, it uses spacers and a whole bunch of more complicated assemblies. The linear slide rails seemed to be way too heavy to place very high-up/back on the robot and was sure to cause tipping. Like before, th…

Hope this helps!

[Xenon27]

having a third (or second) stage that flips out is generally easier than making a cascading third stage, but if you want, the resources posted above are probably the best resources on cascading stages that exist as of now.

[Doctortictac]

Also, you might want to recategorize this to tower takeover and not iq

[RoboCatz]

We tried that, but ultimately opted for the third stage as it was better. If your intake system is too weak, the extending part of the tray will not extend out.