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Mecha Morphix Robot Platform

Learn robotics as you build. Course includes hours of detailed video instruction on 3d printing, assembling, wiring and programming your robot head with a detailed BOM for parts and materials. The course will guide you through the completion of the robot head ALAN, but the online store will include many new modular parts like heads, necks and shoulders to modify your robot into new characters. One platform unlimited robots.

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Programming

The course will include starter ARC presets to zero out servos etc. As long as you build and follow the instructions, my templates should get you up and running right away. Then as you learn more about ARC you can add or remove functions.

Parts & Materials

You will build using proven controllers like the EZB, IO Tiny, Arduino and ESP 32s as controllers for servo motions LEDs and camera/vision.

You'll need various tools including a 3D printer to produce the plastic parts, use of soldering iron, heat sinks, standard tools like wrenches etc. If you are a DIY builder you will have alot of the tools and parts needed.

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#98  

Still waiting on the Kajabi elements to be resolved. Everything else is ready to go. I'm looking to alternative hosting in case everything we need on the site can't be accommodated. This is so frustrating.

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Yeah, too bad that's the hold up!

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lol dude - this is such good eye candy!

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@dspiller. Yeah we are flipping them for a loop. There are gigs of 4K video instructions, tons of STL/OBJ files and lots of supporting materials on top of that. Certainly more than most people whom are selling a .PDF course on how to dropship..lol. I've had to compress encoding on some video lessons down to below 4 gigs for uploading. Zipping some other files I didn't want to zip..etc. They are doing a lot to help. Once its settled I have to shoot an orientation video to go in the course to explain where to find all the files and get to know your way around Kajabi. But I can't do that until everything finalized with the files. All in all there are 30 video lessons over 5 modules.

@DJ Yes lots of glossy eye candy!

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...i think this course would have been out in March if i hadn't decided to build and design other heads to demonstrate the concept of interchangeable parts on the Mecha Morphix platform. But hindsight 20/20! Here we are now.

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...Mecha Morphix qualified for the MatterHackers affiliate program. If you don't have a printer and plan to get one (and filament) for this project, consider ordering through my custom link and I get a tiny bit of a kickback from those sales. Proceeds go back into Mecha Morphix. Bambu is one example printer but, there are many many printers available. The minimum bed size is 256 mm cubed.

https://www.matterhackers.com?aff=7686

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#104   — Edited

I've been messing around with ARCX the last couple days (I got bad case of covid so can't do much) , and my first impressions are, it's worth the wait. It has a familiar feel with superpowers. The interface is quick to pick up. For me the two most powerful upgrades are servo Animation and servo Pad. They expand their usefulness and there are a few things on my wish list like editable keyframes and a graph editor for fine tuning that have been added. servo Tabs now has its own animation recordings built in. You can create takes which you can basically mix and match those pre recorded animations!

Shown a simple set up using all three servo pads and the servo animation skill, Recorded motion then played back in a loopable javascript. (I don't think I did a good picture in picture start and end but you get the idea.

I don't have any of this covered in the course its only ARC centric, but def want to put up a few classes on ARCX to cover these new tools at a future date.