Stringman cable-driven household robot

A room-scale crane robot that hangs a gripper from four wall-mounted spools to pick up clutter · 6 parts · 6 steps · By Nathaniel Nifong (Neufangled Robotics)

Gather the parts
Print the parts
Build the four anchors
Build the gantry and gripper
Set up the Pis and the control panel
Install and calibrate

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Stringman cable-driven household robot

By Nathaniel Nifong (Neufangled Robotics) · Example build · 10 views · 0 remixes

A room-scale crane robot that hangs a gripper from four wall-mounted spools to pick up clutter

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Estimated parts cost

3 of 6 parts priced

Difficulty

Difficult

Build time

about 45 minutes per anchor, 3 hours for the gripper, 1 hour to install

Parts

6 parts · 28 pcs

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