ARC Progress: Basic Claw (Patreon)

Here is the new claw unit for the robot arm rig.

This is more or less a standard design, but I went with pistons pushing the struts on bearings, rather than two interconnected gears like you usually see.

I did this for two reasons. One, I can control each finger individually, and two: Once the claw is closed it "locks" close because with this setup, at the end of the piston's throw the claw moves up and down very little compared to a lot of piston motion, making it much harder to break it's grip!Now I can finally get to work on putting this bad boy to use!