Automated forklift truck

[IceAxe]

Hi there,

I'm fairly new to Mindstorms, and these forums, but I thought you might be interested to see my automated forklift truck (hope you enjoy the humour!):

[M_longer]

That lifting mechanisms looks to be very weak.

[mostlytechnic]

Interesting design. I can't say I've ever seen a forklift with that mechanism - it works, but yeah, it's not the most sturdy design. Clever though! And probably easier to automate than a string-based lift system.

[IceAxe]

Actually, my first attempt making an automated lift truck did indeed use a bit of string:

But I wanted to have a multi-stage mast mechanism, and one that didn't use any string. I didn't have enough ratchet pieces so that was why I took the idea of the scissor lift. It went through many stages - starting off extremely complex (and extremely unreliable). In the end, I quite liked this lifting principle, even though it is a bit, er, unconventional... and, it's not actually a multi-stage mast.

But I thought it was fun, and my little video was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.

Thanks for the feedback! :)

[M_longer]

8248 had scissor lift mechanism and was much sturdier than yours. Maybe consider some rebuilds?

[agrof]

I don't think the main attraction is the lifting capacity here, that sounds like nitpicking - even it is not meant like that.

You can improve the V2 later.

I really enjoyed the Video, and hat off for the programing, it works! :thumbup: