I decided about a week ago I wanted to play with a robotic arm roughly human sized.
I saw the show how things are made and they went thru the build of a very similar design by Lab-Volt so I decided to build my own.
Here are a few pics at the 4 day point, the upper and lower section of the arm are done, I am machining all the timing belt cogs my self. Other than motors , belts and fastners everything is being made in house. It will be a 6 axis arm , all joints and points that move are fully ball bearing supported.
I have quite a bit more done than in these pics which were taken a few days ago, In preliminary testing this arm is easily picking up a 65 lb wieght.
I will post a few more pic monday when I get back in the shop.
Any thoughts on software to program would be greatly appreciated
http://www.thompsonmachine.net/img/robarm/arm1.jpg
http://www.thompsonmachine.net/img/robarm/arm2.jpg
http://www.thompsonmachine.net/img/robarm/arm3.jpg
http://www.thompsonmachine.net/img/robarm/arm4.jpg