Cool!

I'd suggest thinking out of the box a bit more, rather than building yet another robot arm.

3-axis arm suspended from an overhead crane suspended from the rafters? Giant wire bender that can make arbitrary structural shapes out of rebar? Construction robot with a nailgun and circular saw that can build tiny houses out of plywood and a pile of 2x4's? Hybrid 6-axis CNC that can do both subtractive and additive manufacturing? Robot to lay down carbon fiber epoxy in arbitrary shapes? Research platform for soft/compliant robotics for strong but safe human-robot interaction (see 1, 2, 3, 4)?

Patrik

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:

hi all,

i got a really fancy motor controller and a bunch of really fancy motors with encoders built-in, and it all works together.. and I think we should consider making another robot. Here is the controller:

product sheet:
http://spaz.org/~jake/bxi/BXi-Tool-Controller-Debuted.pdf

huge operation manual:
http://spaz.org/~jake/bxi/BX300HIFMan.pdf

basically the brain can control six motors, which i have, with very precise motion control and tracking, for example for the joints of a giant robot.

The motors I have are a couple of sizes, but I think we should go big and use the 500W (2/3 horsepower) motors, so the thing can be expected to cart its own batteries around and be autonomous.

never mind, this is a dumb idea. but i do have the motors and controller, and i may be able to get more. I guess we could build a 4x8 foot laser cutter or something mundane like that.

-jake
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