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Help launch Arm3 into space with Hackaday.io

Hackaday.io is running a contest for the best DIY project that “builds the future”. The winner will get a trip to space. Let me repeat that:

 

Space! 

I’ve entered the Arm3 as part of my year-long project to make an open source industrial arm for makers everywhere.  Simply entering isn’t enough.  To rise to the top I need your help.  Tweet about it, share with your friends, and Give it a skull on their site.  If you are technically inclined, I need help making parts and improving the design.  Everything counts.

Go to Hackaday.io now and give it an upvote.

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Training an Open Source 3DOF Palletizing Robot part 3: Send me your Tweets!

I’m testing the text writing system on the Arm3 robot today. I need inspiration! Post something funny on Twitter to @MarginallyC. I’ll pick a few favorites for the robot to write out. The results will be put on Youtube and I’ll tweet you back the link. I can only write the ASCII characters so far.

On a side note… I’ve been trying to get Instagram to post automatically to this blog with no luck yet. Instagrate boo!

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Thin walled 3d prints

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Arm3 Robot Draws 4th Order Hilbert Curve Fractal

A Hilbert curve is a space filling curve fractal. Each order of the fractal becomes increasingly dense. I programmed the GCodeSender to generate this fractal as a test pattern so that I could gauge the repeatable accuracy now and in the future.

I’ve also been hard at work teaching all the robots to write the ASCII character set. At the next Maker Faire I think I hope to have a “robot writes your tweets” system.

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Makelangelo 3 Software Update v21

This is the 21st commit in Github for the Makelangelo software.  Read on to get the details and download the latest. (more…)