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so, what happens... if I mash that thing multiple times?
also, is it pressure sensitive? if I mash it harder... ?
Can I stick a robot to spam it 24/7/365/9999?
…. Let’s add maintenance windows to, you know, make sure it stays working. First sunday every month?
You want to perform maintenance during football? Can’t we just buy two and do in-service maintenance during the week?
This kind of depends on the original question.
what happens?
I mean, if there needs to be lube or something... and in any case switching over requires some down time...
What kind of button mashing bot are you building that you are worried about lubricating your actuators? It’s really not that hard to implement a lube tube that dispenses a small amount on a set frequency. Then you just have to monitor lube levels, tune your lube tube, and replace consumables whenever.
I’d be more worried about maintaining the button, to be honest. That’s a black box that we have limited control over, it’s a single point of failure and it’s mission critical. Bad combination.
... "actuator"... is that what we're calling it now?
Pressing it starts an investigation. We don’t know what happens when it’s released.
I would expect mashing it would have one of two outcomes. Either you have a bunch of very short lived investigations, or you have so many active investigations that they start tripping over each other like lemmings in a ditch.
The right solution is to place a heavy weight on it one time, and then protect it to prevent the weight from being moved.
Iza button. no need for weight. Get some light weigh, UV cured epoxy resin.
in any case if that's all that happens, I think we need some expanded functionality. Maybe some electrodes... ?
It only starts the investigation.
But you can restart it whenever some rich slob tries to block it.
Boring.
Guess I need to build my own button.