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Bluetooth Rover Robot

Parts for the arm are printed in ABS black.  All moving joints have 8mm bearings, fasteners are m3, servos are hd1501mg analog.  Arm is 4 DOF based on a parallel frame mechanism.
Showing partial assembly.  Some parts were printed in white/natural ABS  
Partially assembled, testing code to reset the servos to center position before installing all the parts.  I decided to add tank tracks and stepper motors to make this robot more mobile.  This was a very low cost implementation I would recommend to others looking to make a tank robot.  The purple controller has 2 potentiometers wired to analog pins on the arduino board that control the shoulder and forearm servos on the arm.  After adding more servos for an end effector, I decided to change to a different board layout with a stepper shield.
 
End effector is printed in yellow ABS and made of 19 parts.  The gripper can rotate as well as open/close and holds up to 200g.
Stepper control shield I picked up online.  I power this with a 9v battery.  An additional arduino connecting all 5 servos is connected to a Bluetooth relay module under the wood chassis.  The rover is controlled via an Android bluetooth joystick app.  I get around 10 minutes of battery life at a time, looking for a better solution with li-po packages.
Still to do:  cable harness, control optimization, tread padding, better batteries

Special thanks to McMaster for the 3D printers
Bluetooth Rover Robot
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Bluetooth Rover Robot

Rover robot project

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