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    3D Printing and CAD for Robotics

    ProE is good. Solidworks has some nice tools. Some of our engineers use Siemens/UGS software. Most of the better CAD companies make moduals for doing 3D modeling including animation and stress analysis. However, they are a lot more expensive than the basic software you are looking at right...
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    Graduate Can Photons Pass Through Protons or Do They Always Collide?

    My best guess would be that it would not be a collision or going right through. The wave of the photon would be influenced by the energy and the parts that make up the the proton. They would change each other. The 'same' photon may come though, or, its interaction with the system of the...
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    Design Question: Wiring & Motors

    I agree with schip, slip rings would be noisy. However, they would be simple and would work if you have a very simple (slow), fault-tolerant communications stream. If you need better data transfer and you have power on both sides of the moving object (which can easily be supplied by slip...