Hack a Day - ATLAS powered rope ascender  


"You just flip the large toggle switch to ‘on’, pull the small trigger and off you go at a rate of 6ft/s. The original unit moved at 10ft/s, but it was almost too jarring." — hack-a-day write up on their field test of the brutal-looking rope ascender.

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