TheTechnomanc3r
Hello fellow robot enthusiasts! First time poster here, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Gray and I am an artist and inventor based in Los Angeles.
I just wanted to show off my first robotics project of my own design, made in blender and printed on a heavily modified XYZ DaVinci 1.0 3d printer in ABS and Algix ALGA filament. I am also working on a seperate InMoov build simultaneously, with pics and videos on both to come. But my robotic arm is done! I spent months designing, printing, re-designing, and reprinting this, and am very happy with the results! It is fully functional and ready for programming, I'll throw together some code and post the video soon, but in the meantime, here are some pictures! I will be updating the project in this thread for those interested, as well as my upcoming youtube channel "The Technomanc3r". My instagram username is @thetechnomanc3r as well, for more images following my projects.
The arm is powered by 7 servo motors, it has motion in the wrist, each individual finger, and the thumb has two different positions for different tasks. The arm and grip is VERY strong, because of the forearm gearbox design, will be doing a strength test very soon.
It actually was the EZ robot servos I burnt out, those are the ones driving the fingers since I figured they'd be getting the most "use and abuse". I totally think they are better than the cheapo ones though, I just must have done something wrong. Live and learn I suppose!
Hey everyone! I finally got this guy working, had to replace some servos with cheapo MG996rs I had until I can afford new Hd servos to replace the fried ones (I can't believe I fried them, I think I accidentally ran too much voltage while trying to adjust my shop power supply. How embarrassing!) just to get this video up for my scholarship, but I got the EZb working and it's great! I am very happy with it!
excited to play with it more once I get the arm working properly. I'll also be releasing this for download, I just have a few pieces that need a few fixes. I'm a bit of a blender noob and I don't want to give you all bad files! Mk 2 is in the works, going to order some of the EZ micro servos and house everything in the hand itself, so it may also be used for a prosthetic design down the road!
Also working on an adapter to make the hand (minus the relatively heavy forearm design) compatible with the inmoov as well, for the addition of an adjustable thumb.
https://youtu.be/-s_N6l1TrpM