The Crafsman - ESP32 Mini SCARA Robotic Arm Postcard Plotter

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It's a ESP32 Mini SCARA Robotic Arm Postcard Plotter Homework Writing Machine Pen Plotter Thing.

At any rate... Finally. This is V1.0 of Posty, the ESP32-powered, all-WiFi, mini-S.C.A.R.A Postcard Plotter. This is made from MDF and readily available (and pretty cheap) parts so that anybody can duplicate it. Vast improvements since the Posty introduction video.

More info to follow, but for now...

This is a SCARA (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm) robotic arm. It is powered using an ESP32 and fed data via WiFi on my local router. It uses 2 6V NEMA16 stepper motors with 15 tooth GT2 pulleys, and one 15mm 5V stepper that turns a cam to lift the pen. Motors are controlled by 3 stepstick-style a4899 motor controllers. I wrote all the software, including the kinematics (which are quite simple) in Python3 and Micropython. Most if the computations are done on the desktop, and then control bytes are sent to the ESP32. I have a built-in font, and I can run basic gcode. So the images I'm drawing go from raster to vector graphics to gcode to Posty.

That's all for now.
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This is flat-out phenomenal! I'm so impressed by this, and feel honored to be featured in this way. Thank you so much!

TheCrafsMan
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Crafsman is great, it's pretty much impossible not to like his content and his persona. Really dig that robotic arm 👌

SolarfallBaits
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That is a very nice robot plotter you have there.

wolfrobots
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The Crafsman is my fav. Legit inspiring.

jakecarvey
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Great arm there Clayton. And congrats on the 1M views.

billfield
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Excellent work. It really impresses me. I am trying to do a similar project with a scara arm but I have problems with the vectorization software since when printing the result is distorted and curved. I wonder if you can give me a hand with the software please.

juanorrego
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Haha, wow, that looks really good. Using a stepper motor to raise the Z-axis seems to be working pretty well. Did you code the firmware all by yourself? Or is that what you mean by 'software'?

MarinusMakesStuff
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Such much awesome happening in this one video I don't know how to act!!! Lol

mattypow
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will this be open source? i wanna adapt this into a sand table plotter

huff_designs
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How can I make my own ?

I need this .

please help me

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