Things - Popsicle Stick Robotic Arm
Nov 24, 2008
Things - Eric Skiff and Bre Pettis created a Popsicle Stick Robotic Arm from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
In a week, I travel to Vienna to participate in Roboexotica, the festival of cocktail serving robots. I'm bringing the Cherrytron 2000 with me. It's a robot to put cherries in drinks!
Late in the evening Eric Skiff jumped in to make the code happen and the whole project came together in one night. Eric also provided the excellent soundtrack that he created with nanoloop. Adam Cecchetti gets credit for starting the original prototyping with me. The arm is made with Raphael Abram's Twitchie Kit plus a few servos I pulled out of a broken RC helicopter that Joel Johnson and rubber bands!
Eric has the code up for you to review and if you don't want to use popsicle sticks, you can download the cherrytron 2000 design files and lazzzor cut the parts for the arm on thingiverse.
I'm torn, I really love the popsicle stick aesthetic. Should I take them off and make it all shiny and red with acrylic parts? Help me decide in the comments!
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Reader Comments (7)
[...] keeping the popsicle stick aesthetic or making a slick laser-cut body, and is taking votes via comments on his blog. Let him know what you think! Posted by WordPress Filed in [...]
yeah, excellent, so simple. Now you can replace popsicle with acrylic cutted by lazzor and have a perfect robotic arm.
I love the Popsicle sticks!
[...] keeping the popsicle stick aesthetic or making a slick laser-cut body, and is taking votes via comments on his blog. Let him know what you [...]
I vote to keep the sticks.
I also vote to fix the link to Eric's source code. I'm very curious how you integrated the Atari joystick with the Arduino.
Sticks, most definitely. 8^D
I say do some cool thing for it with the lazor. I think since you have the tools, go all-out man!