Lego FlexPicker

This robot is based on the ABB Flexpicker industrial pick and place robot. It uses four NXT microcontrollers with various Lego sensors and motors. It is very easy to program, each position uses an array element containing 3 motor positions, 3 motor speeds and an action such as grip, release or pause. I can easily teach it to pick anything up as long as it can reach it and it will fit into the end effecter. The robot is programmed using RobotC 1.45.

In short, it is just another brick sorter. Visit www.tinkernology.blogspot.com for more information

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[youtship]

Great design!

And you must have spent a great deal of effort building it eventho you've got the idea already!

Was the hammer noise really from NXT servo's?

Mine servo's aren't that noisy.

[theonlyshep]

@youtship The "Thumps" are the blocks dropping into the bins and such. The loud motor that you hear occasionally is the large RC motor that I use to power the lego Air compressor.

[pjwithbread8]

wow, thats amazing, but i bet it was a bitch to make the arm motors work together properly in the program and mechanically!

[theonlyshep]

@pjwithbread8 Thanks! Believe it or not, after I created a function to control the speed and positioning of each of the motors, programming became very easy. But figuring out that function to lots of effort.

[SeanyPMac]

Really a great job. I'm very impressed you could get that good coordinated motion. I'll bet this was a very fun project. I would have like to seen more of the mechanical unit above.

[theonlyshep]

I do have some pictures and I have said for a long time that I am going to post them, but it just keeps slipping my mind. I need to get busy and put them up.

[HeartsongHorses99]

Wow!! Amazing! Just a few short years ago people only dreamed about this type of technology and here you are building it out of TOYS!!

Wow.

[grandtippler]

This is cool, well done.

[burf2000]

This is wicked, so this only uses 3 motors in total for the movement, I would love to know how to build the movement part

[MisterFitzGibbon]

Great project. Could I ask about the design of your compressor? Using only lego parts I cannot seem to maintain a constant, high pressure.

[denreaper]

@aznwilly211 Great job!

[aznwilly211]

i'd do a much faster job than the machine if I did it myself, but then again you can work a machine 24/7 without it suing you

[djavlerokken]

TOTAL COOOOLL

[TheTechy2]

air compresser where why how i want one