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Re: Looking for non-LEGO robots
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Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:32:19 GMT
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in article f04320420b56c7e3306f9@[136.176.42.230], Barbara Nostrand at
lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote on 6/13/00 5:17 PM:
> Hi.
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> Well, I talked a place into letting me teach there Mech E. Robotics
> course. Yes, they have a Puma arm, but I would like to offer the
> students something to work on during the first half of the course
> that won't kill or mame them if they make a mistake. There used to
> benchtop educational arms and other small robots which would serve
> the bill. The problem is that I am having a hard time finding them
> and I want to try to acquire stuff for September. Yes, I know that
> that is a fool's errand, but I will try anyway.
Pitsco has some robotics stuff. You might like their Brutus robot arm. It
costs over $2700, but it probably can't maim anyone.
http://www.shop-pitsco.com/catalog.cfm
I worry about you being able to get the stuff in a timely manner. Whenever
I have ordered from Pitsco, it's been painfully slow. With this in mind, I
did a quick Sherlock search and found a few sites.
http://www.lynxmotion.com/
These guys have a nice collection of educational robot kits. They've been
around for several years but I've never dealt with them myself.
http://electronickits.com/robot/owi007.htm
Super-cheap. Know nothing about these guys.
http://www.robix.com/
Looks like a modular robot arm construction kit. Featured in Wired.
This ought to get you started.
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> Why am I getting to teach robotics to Mechanical Engineers? Well,
> their roboticist left and the course is currently required. Anyway,
> I am open to ideas. I do think that the students will be expected
> to make the Puma work by the end of the course, but I would like
> to have them do a bit of other stuff too.
Lots of luck to you!
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> Barbara Nostrand
> mailto:nostrand@bradley.edu
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