most nailguns i've used have a safety element where the tip has to be pressed against a surface (or of course have the contact sensor manually pulled back) to actually send a nail

On 2014-11-17 16:02, Jake wrote:

Hol do you really think it's a good idea to hand our evil robot a loaded nail gun?  We should see how it behaves with a full-size router first...

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

i'd be into making some DIY insulated structural panels out of regular
4x8 plywood and styrofoam sheet. i actually randomly found a video of a
motoman used as a pallet nailer. if we could fit a nailgun, housing
panels could go together really quickly.

On 2014-11-14 13:37, Matthew Senate wrote:

I think this is awesome, and a small-size CNC like this or a shapeoko model is still a great idea. (plus with a URL like that you HAVE to be DIYing it, so rad!) However, Jake pointed out that the giant robot arm can serve as a CNC mill that can reach a full 6' x 9' piece of plywood, meaning we can build stuff like this for instance: http://www.wikihouse.cc/ [3] // Matt