Robot Arm Shenanigans (Draft Post)

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Published

August 6, 2024

Having fun with a DIY Robot Arm

Robot arm early on, making an obligatory butter passing joke

I built a fun little robot arm based on designs from here. It’s fun to play with. My favourite workflow is teaching movements by first pupeteering motions then playing those back.

Here’s a video of it singing a song: https://youtu.be/TMR00uVwGpU

I should find a way to embed media from tweets. For now, the story so far as a series of links:

Fun at Open Sauce, meeting lots of other robots (June 15): https://x.com/johnowhitaker/status/1802129219432091994

The meme spreads to Radek (May 25): https://x.com/radekosmulski/status/1794614361581134074

The inevitable butter passing gag (teamwork with another little robot arm I made) (May 8): https://x.com/johnowhitaker/status/1788415382426103839

First movement (April 13): https://x.com/johnowhitaker/status/1779205355043799373 and field trip to hackerspace https://x.com/johnowhitaker/status/1779301429041336655

Printing parts (March 30): https://x.com/johnowhitaker/status/1774176545378328643