[Ryan Bates] apparently really likes building claw machines. We noticed his latest build with a new PCB, but then we scrolled down and found other incarnations of the machine going back to 2015.
The laser-cut claw is interesting looking and the brains are an Arduino. You can see the action in the video below and there are plenty of older videos on the project page.
Without the PCB, the machine was a mess of wires. With the PCB, a single ribbon cable connects the Arduino to the board, and the board has a layout of screw terminals. This results in a much cleaner layout than before.
You might think you wouldn’t see many homemade claw machines. However, that’s not true. We’ve seen plenty, some of them even using commercial claws. Naturally, some of them also connect to the Internet.
Oh no! Here’s comes the claw! The Claaaaw’s going to get you! Watch out for the claw!
[Maxwell_Smart]: The Craw?
[The_Claw]: No, not the Craw! The Craw!
[Maxwell_Smart]: Ah, yes. The Craw
Those filled in conductors on IDE/Floppy are super easy to hog out and use. I had to do this when I used an old floppy connector/cable for the Band Pass Filter socket on my BITX40 radio when I added a BPF for 80m. I just used something pointy, and guess what, the connector conducts fine and works fine. You can see it in the second picture down:
http://miscdotgeek.com/bitx40-dual-band-conversion/
Does it also have a setting to allow you to alter the win percentage? Is that considered a feature or a bug?
This wooden claw appears to be immune to this type of claw “manipulation”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7or8g1b0IMM
The title of this article sounds like a terrible movie on the SyFy network…
which I would totally watch.
I’ve wanted to make a claw machine for years.
And there’s this: https://youtu.be/h6v5CZBp5mw