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    Ideas for a self-tilting mechanism

    Yep we'll make sure to control for a slow and safer speed. Manual labour is definitely an option, but we'll like to see if we can automate it. Hmm I'm thinking of a car suspension like system. The reason why we'd like for the wheels to return to a "neutral" position is so that they'd be...
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    Ideas for a self-tilting mechanism

    As of now, we're thinking the wheels could be powered by some large electric motors, in a similar fashion as those baseball pitching machines. Hmm yeah eventually we'd need to get down to making calculations involving torque to size those motors Friction would definitely be a concern. I think...
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    Ideas for a self-tilting mechanism

    Hi @DaveC426913, thanks for your thoughts :) Here are some clarifications: - these odd-shaped objects are actually some stage props that we'd like to use for a performance. They're mostly of the same shape, but with slight differences in the slope angle - to clarify, "pushed out to a...
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    Ideas for a self-tilting mechanism

    Hello, I would like to ask for ideas for a tilting mechanism for a machine that shoots out odd-shaped objects. These objects are quite large (about 50-100 kg each), are rolled around on castor wheels, and have slightly different contours. Here’s a sketch of the machine and the object: As...
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