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Sixi Robot on Hackaday

This morning I was flooded with like and subscribe emails on my hackaday page for the Sixi. Turns out someone had written about it in a tech site and not given me the heads up. Nobody tells me nothing .

Do me a favour and go upvote the project on hackaday. I’d love to win their contest and get some toys to further development. Your continued support can make that happen. Thanks!

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Mantis: a “highly scalable force feedback device”

My take on this

It was never going to be strong enough as a robot arm, so they turned it around and made it into an interface device. The amount of room needed for the linkages to move around is not practical.

On the plus side, it’s got a lot of the hardware that robots use and may serve as a great education for people starting out in the field: encoders, position sensors, DC brushless motors, control, and more.