Friday, July 1, 2011

A New Gripper for Mini Max

I was never satisfied with the simple gripper we had put on the Mini Maxwell prototypes. It took a bit of time to actually sit down and create the gripper I wanted, but I've now printed up a couple prototypes (the final versions will be laser cut):
The design was done in Autodesk Inventor:
There is a simple mechanism for converting the motion of a single AX-12 to parallel motion for both jaws:Videos shortly of Mini Max manipulating things.

-Fergs

1 comments:

  1. Do you plan on selling these?

    Jim Jim.geidl@spinochio.com

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