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Building an Open Source 3DOF Palletizing Robot

Arm3-v1

Last week on the Instagram and Twitter feed I showed a picture of a 3 degree of freedom palletizing robot I built. I just created the Github repository for the open source code. As mentioned on the About page I’m dedicating the next year to one of my dream projects: Building a 6DOF arm and making it available for everyone. See the video, get your own

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Seattle Mini Maker Faire 2014 this weekend

Come by our booth at the 2014 Seattle Mini Maker Faire to see the Makelangelo 3 and a top secret machine we’ve been keeping under wraps PLUS a special offer for anyone who says hello.

See you there!

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The Power of First Principles (in 600 seconds)

Once you get first principles working they become like building blocks – it’s easy to reuse them over and over again. Take a look at what you can do with a steady supply of linear actuators. So many great CNC machines from the one mechanism!

I think the lesson here is study hard and make sure you know your fundamentals. Learning music? Practice your arpeggios. Programming? Get your design patterns memorized. Homework, homework, homework.

I’m still waiting to see someone do something awesome with Rolamite. Will anyone accept the challenge?