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Would you consider getting an arm with some kind of built-in crossbow?
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Eeesh. Here is the best sketch I could do at 2am, please bear in mind that I was always a lot stronger on the analytical side of things than design. http://imgur.com/IQ1UXTk
Basically I was thinking you could go for something that would be a bit of a pain to reload but concealable. The idea is that you pull on the ring bit at the bottom and by a simple system of pulleys the whole thing pops up on some supports built in to the arm. The actual arms and everything else sit on a base that moves up and down on these supports. After everything is raised and there is no more slack in the cable, pulling the ring rotates the second pulley, which by a simple gear adds energy to the two torsion springs. I guess it's a little bit like the reverse of a ballista. The torsion springs are trying to rotate the arms forward and the only thing stopping them is a loosing (I don't think you're supposed to say "fire" with bows?) mechanism I didn't put much thought into because it's 2am and you all bullied me into doing this and I want to go to bed. But once you push that button the arms move forward, the bowstring moves, the bolt moves. Then to get the mechanism back into the arm and make your escape you'll need a way of disengaging the arms from the torsion springs (still trying to move the arms forward) which you might achieve with something like a dog clutch.
I apologise for the general shittiness of the design, the awful sketch and everything else, but as I keep pointing out it's 2am leave me alone.
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The youtube page for the film says that it was executive produced by you and Elon Musk; did he fund it or was he actually involved in the filmmaking aspect at all?
Also I thought you were really good in Tron but it seems weird to bring that up while asking about cholera in Haiti
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Do you know where we can find that vote? I have to know what 1 through 7 were
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I just got my engineering degree and robotic prosthetics is one area I'd be really keen to work in, there's basically nothing I would rather do than build weaponised prosthetic limbs for people. But I've got no experience yet so you might want to wait a while...
Edit: OK I've replied to this with a shitty design I did so you'd all leave me alone, I just have to hope employers don't see it
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