jamiek
July 11, 2026, 8:25pm
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Just using as-is. But so far I’ve been keeping hands off the code myself because I don’t want to confuse it with changes of my own, and anything I do is probably going to get trashed anyway.
I wasn’t sure whether to make it public (yet) but what the heckhttps://github.com/vector76/big_arm
And by the way this is an old “wish” of mine…
I think there is definitely room for a robot arm in the $500 range.
Sort of in the spirit of the MPCNC where the pro tools are very costly and a surprisingly good machine can be had for $500.
I respect the AR4 and the robot arms made by “Skyentific” on youtube, but I don’t think you get to something useful by taking a traditional concept and make it smaller/cheaper with plastic.
My idea is put counterweights everywhere. The elbow has a counterweight to offset the weight of the forearm at the…