How's that for a title? ;-)
We're working on a refit of another company's design for a kids' "ball room". Looking at the attached image( also viewable at http://www.edmstudio.com/temp/discovery/08C03-redflower.jpg)
tennis-sized light foam balls get shot through the stems of giant yellow...
We're working on a museum exhibit where the user input device is a sliding block mounted on a guide rail. The position of the carriage is sensed via a wire-draw encoder mounted at the left end of the rail with the wire fastened to the left side of the carriage. Here is the specific encoder...
I'm working on a museum exhibit where a 65" plasma monitor (150lb) is manually moved back and forth along a 15' linear rail. We're looking for a passive (non-electronic) means of limiting the speed to thwart kids flinging the screen from one end to the other. We want the screen to move freely...