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Under Pressure

            This is a very pretty little assortment of pneumatic gear. I've been making things move electronically for a mighty long time but I've never used air pressure.

"It's a great system," the seller tells me. "But you need to wire up sensors to everything." 

In one of my button-pushing rigs, I just trip the actuator. I can be confident that it worked and that it Actuated within a specific predictable span of time. No such simplicity with pneumatics. You send the signal and then you need to wait for the sensor to tell you that the thing's in position. 

I'd love to play with this sort of engineering sometime. I don't think Fisher-Price has developed a My First Pneumatic Actuator Playset yet...

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Taken on: April 19, 2009

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