I was telling Matt that I thought we should have a Rube Goldberg Hackathon with all of our stuff at sudo. That way we would have to pull out a lot of the stuff off the shelves and categorize them in terms of electrical/mechanical specifications (to figure which thing to work with which other thing), which would then be a part of how we shelve stuff as well.

Sort of related to your Robot idea…

Like I keep wondering what we could do with those two powerful juicer motors lying on the floor near the seeing machines?

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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