This is the first week of the two week make a machine project!!
The current team at Vigyan Ashram decided to make a single machine.
A little intoduction about that team: -

Arefin	Komal	Ugyen	Kamlesh
Interfacing Guy	Hands on and machining	End Effector Works	Team Lead, Management
Rutvij	Sanket	Chaitanya	Rohan
Electronics Guy	Documentation and machining guy	Structure Works	Calculus and design

All of us were assigned tasks, they are on the respective pages...

Together of which we present the result of the sweat and time..

The Zhero

The Zero is a robotic arm having 4 degrees of freedom, designed to be mounted on any surface and to work with various end effectors, through a modular design.
The arm currently is designed for the accute purpose of engraving over flat surfaces.
The structure of the arm has been insprired out of the MeArm and other high end robotic arm, to find a mid way solution that could solve our purpose the easy way.

Future Scope to come.

The Arm supports a very vesatile design where there could be a range of end effectors that could be attached.

Secondly there is a scope of adding a motor at the end to addup to a degree of freedom.
Possible improvement for interfacing using robo language, interfaced with superior hardware and softwares such as RoboDk
And many more possibilities flow along with the creativity....

To know more about the design aspects and manufacuturing methods applied, click here