Edge Robotic Arm Kit
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 4 of February , 2009 at 1:22 am
Getting tired of your puny human arm? Now you can replace it with a new arm that is probably nowhere near as good but is much more robot-y. The Edge robotic arm kit from ThinkGeek does require about two hours worth of snap-together assembly, but once you’ve got it put together, you’ll have a robot grabber arm with five motors, five degrees of freedom, and a wired control panel with five controls on it. It rotates and bends all kinds of ways, can reach out 13 inches and up 15 inches, lifts up to 100 grams, and comes with an LED to illuminate what you’re trying to pick up. It’s only $50 at ThinkGeek.com
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Comment by Ironman
Made Wednesday, 4 of February , 2009 at 5:50 pm
your kidding me, they put a demo video, where they can’t even accomplish the demo perfectly?
Comment by arif_nugeraha
Made Wednesday, 9 of December , 2009 at 10:33 pm
keren!!!!
Comment by ashkan
Made Tuesday, 3 of August , 2010 at 3:24 am
Pls give me your best price for 1000 Pcs of follow me robot.
Regards,
A. Ahmadi
Comment by i got one for crimbo
Made Tuesday, 14 of December , 2010 at 10:25 am
i got one for christmas well not got it yet seen it in me room in me bros draw
Comment by Dan
Made Sunday, 26 of December , 2010 at 1:18 pm
I just got one of these for Christmas and assembled it today.
Notes:
The yellow motor casing assembly is ridiculously annoying to assemble. You need to balance nuts precariously on their side in a plastic perch while you drop gears and then a magnet right beside them, and then put the case over top; all without disturbing them. They fall out WAY too easily.
A couple screws tend to bottom and strip well before finger tight. The plastic is soft.
The gears have pretty wide tolerances, so there’s a bit of wiggle to them.
It doesn’t come with batteries or any way to plug it in, so I haven’t even turned it on yet.
The software *seems* easy to use.
