1+ for making do what it wasn’t intended
-1 for not making the claw :)

Posted at 6:50 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by monkeyslayer56

Another cool lashup of ‘to-hand’ technologies :) I like it, I wonder how much he could charge nasa for fixing the hubble with it?

Posted at 6:53 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by Reggie

Great project! Can’t wait to see how hot those motors get when 2000+ people are fighting over the controls at once. :)

Posted at 7:21 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by Jeff Ledger

He should really mount a camera on the tip of the claw as well, would make it easier to line up over the tubes

Posted at 7:40 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by jimsmithkka

I saw the same product and thought about doing something similar but I assumed it used servos. I guess they’re just geared motors, otherwise he wouldn’t need relays.

Posted at 7:52 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by andrew

I don’t like how the screen blinks everytime he clicks a link.

Posted at 8:24 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by AnthonyDi

I’d say it’s time for some inverse kinematics. Would make controlling this beast a lot easier.

Posted at 8:26 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by Azghul

Damn you…
I bought and assembled this very same robotic arm, and (poorly) designed my own half-bridge circuit to control it from the printer port. Even made my own ASP page to control the printer port. I was just resting my eyes for a bit and you had to come roaring through in your blaze of glory.
I do take my hat off to you, of course. Very nice circuit. The controller page looks magnificent (Mine was a form with buttons) And my webcam is was very, very cheap.

Well done!

Posted at 8:57 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by cynic

The interface looks very clean, but it looks like you only used one frame for the video/buttons (hence the flashing?). Two frames or an iframe should fix that.. or a flash interface. :)

This brings up a question of my own too.. say I have something with a camera that can be controlled over the internet like this. I want to allow multiple people to watch the video stream, and have a queue system to allow people to say have 30 seconds of control time each. Is there an open source project that sets up this infrastructure already? …. Or is this another winter project? :D

Posted at 9:20 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by macpod

this guys voice made me think of that old switch linux flash…
http://dagobah.biz/flash/switchlinux3.swf

Posted at 10:01 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by sly

Very nice. He should add a joystick controls. Yah for windows 7

Posted at 11:13 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by Daniel

I’ve got exactly the same robotic arm, and it’s publicly controllable over at http://control.kennedytechnology.com – have fun.

Posted at 11:21 am on Oct 27th, 2009 by Nathan

Very nice. Hook it up near your door and you can pimp slap robber from anywhere in the world. LOL.

Posted at 5:59 pm on Oct 27th, 2009 by Thach