I added the finishing touches i.e. fixing tolerances and mounts for my electronics. I am ready to submit. I might use the time in between the submission to add mounts for limit switches, but it is only a wish for now.
my old design looked flimsy, so I got some inspiration and changed the assembly of the forearm. I put the arm part onto the base and the electronics. Things went OK, but the my joints and constraints sometimes acted weird and bugged into each other, would anyone know the issue–Thanks.
It’s been a week since I last worked on this project, and I forgot to post a dev-log. I think I was working on the base and laying out the electrical components when I realized I screwed something up so I deleted my progress. This is what I have now.
(nearly) Finished Robotic Arm: When i tried to attach the hand on to the ends links, there were things misaligned in the assembly and I couldn’t attach the end. I spent a miserable amount of time going back trying to find the mistake, finding multiple areas where the measurements were of by fractions of a millimeter. I fixed some things in the end, and it works now, but some of the constraints are still finicky. I don’t think this will matter when its put together; it is just me being picky. One reason why this may have happened was because of my choice to use imperial measurements with parts that used metric measurements, as well as bad 3D modeling. This was a good learning experience though. I am mostly done with the upper assembly, and the only major thing now is that I just have to create the lower portion which will hold all the electronics.
I was working on assembling the parts I made. I constrained the links to slowly remove its degrees of motion until the elbow and shoulder motions were correct. It was really nice to sit back and look back on it. I still need to work on the gripper of the robot as well as its base. P.S. I didn’t know how recordings worked and how to submit them so a lot of my progress before this point were erased.
