Assembled A Robotic Arm

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I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.

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Jack Handy


I found this kit on Amazon and thought it would be a cool project to try out. It’s a pretty simple robotic arm with 5 points of articulation.
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The kit has a ton of pieces, but they’re very well organized and labelled.
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There are 46 steps for the mechanical assembly and it starts with organizing the motors. There were five motors and they were put together similarly.
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For the next part, I put the base including the battery pack together. Four D batteries were not included.
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The motors are attached to each corresponding point of movement on the arm. The only section that has a slightly different motor setup is the claw at the end.
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After what seemed like an endless number of screws, I was able to complete the mechanical part of the assembly. Next came cable management time.
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One thing that’s really nice about this kit is that there isn’t any soldering required. All the wires neatly plug into the control panel on the base.
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I put together the remote and tested it out.




This was a fun little kit. I was relatively inexpensive and really showed off how simple motors can be used to move mechanical parts. I thought the directions were very thorough and clear. My only criticism is that there were a ton of screws of several different types and some of them were pretty difficult to distinguish from one another. This is a fairly small gripe though because if I used the wrong screws, it still ended up working at the end.

I really enjoyed putting this together, and I can see this is a great kit for kids. Anytime you combine mechanical assembly, electronics, and robots, you’re bound to make boys of all ages very, very happy.

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