3-D Printed Microservo Robot Arm

This a project that I took on to create a simple robot arm for kids camps and classrooms. This arm is controlled by an arduino and uses 3 microservos. While it currently does not have a gripper that will be added soon. I will also be completing the kinematic model so that I can implement a positional controller into the arm.

When fully completed I will release the designs and likely produce a few as kits.

In the demo below I was controlling the arm through a keyboard.

Microservo 3-D printed gripper

I found that there are really very few 3-D printed grippers available. So I made on. This one uses a microservo and two rubber bands to create an semi-adaptive gripper. The overall mechanism is based off of the gripper developed at Slant Robotics. But at this moment the amount of material used is a bit large, so I may create a more minimal structure.

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Model R

This project is the development of the Model R modular hobby robotics platform. It was recently presented in an uncompleted form on Kickstarter.

This is the link to the Universal Mechanisms website                          er

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