Thursday, April 19, 2012

Robotic Arm

This is the Robotic Arm that I have been working on! I have been able to make more progress on it since I got another servo for easter. It is connected to the boe-bot right now. In the near future I plan on putting it on my FIRST Robotics Team's robot! There will definitely be a crimping fiesta when i do it because where the arm will work on the robot, is basically the farthest away that you can get from the Compact-Rio. If we can get our hands on another digital sidecar, to distribute the PWM outputs, then maybe I could stick that a lot closer to the arm and not have seven 3-foot PWM cables! That would also take a lot of wire. Then it will be able to do tasks such as pick up things and, well you could do many things with an arm.

Programming and School

I just found this comic to be hilarious!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Robotic Arm

I am working on a Robotic Arm designed by jjshortcut. His blog is here - http://jjshortcut.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/multiply-the-robotic-arm-and-electronics/

I am programming it in LabVIEW right now and am going to be able to put the arm on the robot of our Rogers FIRST Robotic team 4304's robot and be able to run it on that. I printed out a set of the materials on our laser at school, but the sheet of plexiglass was slightly curved, so some of the cuts don't work the best that they could.