Festo Bionic Elephant Trunk Assembly Instructions Manual

Bionic Elephant Trunk

Assembly Instructions

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Equipment and Supplies

Required items from the Bionics Kit and/or Materials Pack:

1. Tail fin (small) assembled – 2 see ‘Start Here’ for tail fin assembly instructions

2. Transparent corpus (body)

3. Small, waterproof servo motor (marked with a sticker) – 1

4. Large servo motor – 3

5. Connecting element

6. Cable ties

7. Sealing rings – 2

8. Tube (blue)

9. Electronic board with microcontroller

10. 3-armed holder

11. Adapter (for gripper)

12. Spring – 2

13. Material for distance plates (plastic poster board)

14. Template for distance plates (available in the Downloads section on Bionics4education.com)

15. Flexible distance keepers (foam) - cut into pieces to be used between the distance plates. The distance

keepers require a hole in the middle.

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Equipment and Supplies, continued

Additionally required:

1. 4-AA batteries

2. Scissors

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If the tail fins have been previously assembled, please go directly to the Instructions on the next page.

Tail Fin Assembly

From the Bionics Kit, locate the bag containing the tools. Next, locate the bags containing the small screws and nuts
(long and short) and the plastic support pieces (large and small). You will use the shorter screws and the smaller
support pieces to assemble the small tail fins.

To assemble a tail fin, attach the small support pieces to the inside of the fin using the shorter screws, nuts, and
tools. Repeat for the other tail fin.

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Start Here

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Instructions

Required items: material for distance plates, template for distance plates, scissors,
distance keepers

Print the template for the distance plates (located in the Downloads section on the

bionics4education website) and draw six or more distance holders on the plate material.

Cut out the plates with scissors and cut out the four holes marked on the template.

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