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Building an Open Source 3DOF Palletizing Robot Part 5

Arm3 software march 29

I spent the day spring cleaning, so I didn’t get a lot of time to work on the 3DOF robot arm. Today I added a better model of the robot to the software: OpenGL lighting, bounding cylinders, and bounding boxes. I’ll use these same bounding shapes for detecting collisions in the software before the robot runs. That way I won’t be able to program the robot to do something that would cause it to harm itself. Respect the Third Law of Robotics!

Tomorrow I will add the bearings that arrived, both to the robot and to the bearings category in the shop.

Special thanks to Peter for introducing me to TTT a system that might help me teach the Makelangelo and the Arm to write more beautifully. Check out Peter’s hexapod! He’s tackled a number of issues the same way I did, independently, and done a beter job of blogging his results. Great minds think alike?