intermediate robot arms?

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16 years ago

Sat, Jul 28, 2007 11:10 PM

True, not much. I know some general concepts, and am not afraid to get into something and figure out how it works, but I've never built something electronic from scratch.

I'm certainly looking there primarily, but several people mentioned plans in the mags so thought it was worth a look.

I have plenty of programming experience, so am less daunted there. C, C++, Java, and Perl are the bulk of it, but I'm happy to learn anything new in that area.

Someone's link above to cnczone.com was a great find...lots of people doing home-built CNC, and I think I could adapt one of those to do what I'm looking for. So perhaps I will end up building it from scratch after all (with plans, though).

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16 years ago

Sat, Jul 28, 2007 11:10 PM

Have you thought about maybe having a horizontal canvas and have the bot = roll around on it while painting ? Then the wheels could be part of the = art creation hardware. Spongey aircraft wheels; wide wheels; narrow = wheels, etc.

Also, I thought that if you incorporated an infrared sensor into the = brush / brush-holder, then you could have the bot make decisions based = on the paint already laid down on the canvas, since different colors = would reflect differently. For example, put some red paint next to a = blue blob.

Just some thoughts on it ... JCD

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16 years ago

Wed, Aug 1, 2007 3:09 PM

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There was a short article about RepRap in "Make Magazine" recently. Might help.

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It's more for 3D but looks quite interesting. Open source...

And I think a 3D scanner called David was mentioned on this group:

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Have robots. Will travel.

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