22
edits
Project:Air Muscles: Difference between revisions
From London Hackspace Wiki
→What are they?
(→What do people do with them?: 3D printed thingie) |
|||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
* You also need all sort of valves and pressure regulators, and three-way solenoid valves if you want to slave them to some electronics. They can come a bit expensive. | * You also need all sort of valves and pressure regulators, and three-way solenoid valves if you want to slave them to some electronics. They can come a bit expensive. | ||
* The muscle only works when contracting, so you need two opposite muscles to make anything go both ways (like for biological muscles) | * The muscle only works when contracting, so you need two opposite muscles to make anything go both ways (like for biological muscles) | ||
** Or you can use one muscle + one spring, like on Adrian's demonstration/test device | |||
* Quite short lifetime (from some reports) | * Quite short lifetime (from some reports) | ||
* Rather slow response (from some reports, may be fixed by higher pressure and/or better air flow control) | * Rather slow response (from some reports, may be fixed by higher pressure and/or better air flow control) | ||
