Friday, July 1, 2011

A New Gripper for Mini Max

I was never satisfied with the simple gripper we had put on the Mini Maxwell prototypes. It took a bit of time to actually sit down and create the gripper I wanted, but I've now printed up a couple prototypes (the final versions will be laser cut):
The design was done in Autodesk Inventor:
There is a simple mechanism for converting the motion of a single AX-12 to parallel motion for both jaws:Videos shortly of Mini Max manipulating things.

-Fergs

3 comments:

  1. Do you plan on selling these?

    Jim Jim.geidl@spinochio.com

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  2. Hi,

    Any chance you could send me the files for this? I'd like to upgrade my Turtlebot arm :D

    richardw347@gmail.com

    Thanks!

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  3. Richard, I just noticed your comment. The files should all be in my github: https://github.com/mikeferguson/gripperpalooza/tree/master/parallel_v1

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