Tiki Central / General Tiki / Nashville is getting... robot tiki?
Post #779183 by AceExplorer on Fri, Aug 25, 2017 7:37 AM
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Hey skip, very old video, that's hilarious. I've heard of much worse-looking failures back in the days when they used industrial RED hydraulic fluid. They use better tubing and fittings and valves today to make these issues almost impossible. Plus electronic compliance sensors will trigger software to perform partial -or- whole shutdowns if a figure does something which is outside of permitted ranges of motion. While funny, that vid is not a good comparison because: 1) He's one of hundreds. 2) These failures are rare, but they do occur. 3) Drink machines don't require the use of the same high-pressure hydraulics and a zillion sensors and lots of complex single-instance software. 4) Many improvements have been made since that specific figure was in use - it's been completely replaced at least twice with newer generation technology. I know because I was at the "factory," lol. Ok, so I have some exposure to PLCs and motion control systems in general... heh... Edit: I changed "single-use software" to the more correct "single-instance software," meaning for one-of-a-kind figures, although the motion control software has become WAY standardized and toolkit-oriented in today's motion bases and figures. Hey wait, this is a "tiki" discussion system... Ok, tiki drinks make me more -- animated... ha! [ Edited by: AceExplorer 2017-08-25 07:44 ] |