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Ball Magnet part sponsorship deal with Magna Tokyo

August 9, 2005 on 12:50 am | In Uncategorized |

As part of the new bot design, I was looking for a free rotating mechanism, so that the bots can have a nice range of positionable movement between the base of the flower and the top of the stem. I found something pretty cool here in Tokyo, and I visited the company and got some samples. After some discussion with the sales department, they have kindly offered a part sponsorship deal on an order of 40 units.

Check out the product, it’s a ball magnet that can hold up to 5kg. The bots won’t weigh over 2kg. So it should work really well.

http://www.magna-tokyo.com/magnaHPrt/ball_joint.html

Thanks Magna