Author: Steve B
Date: 17:51:42 10/25/04
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>My guess is that Excalibur tried too hard to save money both with the design >outsourcing and the arm's parts and so lost their investment. > >The arm in the picture looks like a limited motion 3 DOF plus a simple gripper. >(I've seen other pictures of the chess pieces and they all have similar tops and >are relatively close in height.) Twenty years ago this would have been a >novelty (c.f. Novag's Adversary), but today I'd think that most buyers would >want an arm capable of handling a regulation sized board. That means squares >with a 5 cm (minimum) edge length, not 2 or 3 cm. if i may suggest.. send Excalibur an e-mail with your ideas for the arm movement hey..you never know.. :)) Steve
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