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Robotic Arm finally came in.
My Robotic Arm was supposed to be delivered Monday per USPS. It finally came in today. I plugged the robot into the controller and the controller into the 120 VAC, it worked for the motor test. Then I plugged the control into my laptop, ran the software, it homed, passed speed calibration test, and I proceeded to jog to positions and write a program. I'm delighted that it worked without having to be repaired! So right now it has an airsoft pistol, 1911 style, in the gripper, I programmed it to point the gun and turn on an output, then it points the gun down and sits in a rest position, ready to go again. The original software is old DOS based, runs fine on my Windows XP machine. I have documentation detailing the serial commands that it takes. I'm thinking I can write a Windows based program, perhaps using a USB to serial cable, and give this many more features than the original came with. Perhaps even the ability to follow a G-Code tool path, mount a die grinder and carve items out of wood or metal. It seems this could present a wide variety of interesting challenges, I'm hoping to learn how to do the 3D kinematics to position various points of the end effector to world coordinates and angles. I think this would also be applicable to 4+ axis on CNC machining. RogerN |
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