Overview
Need a free hand to hold onto all those techy bits and pieces? Then the Braccio Bundle is perfect for you! With the Arduino Uno-controlled Braccio robotic arm, you can unlock the unlimited possibilities of robotics or simply use it to take the perfect selfie.
- 1 x TinkerKit Braccio Robot - Designed for versatility, the Braccio can be assembled in a multitude of ways to enable it to support various objects on the end of the arm. With the ability to hold items weighing up to 400g and a gripper width of 90mm, the Braccio robotic arm can grasp whatever you need either perfectly still or whilst rotating 180 degrees. Includes a Braccio shield to allow you to hook up the servos directly to your Arduino board.
- 1 x Arduino UNO - The Arduino Uno is the ideal board for getting started with electronics and coding. The most used and documented board in the world, you'll find lots of ideas in the Arduino Project Hub to see how you can 'Get to Grips' with your new Braccio robotic arm.
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Documentation
Braccio Bundle is open-source hardware! You can build your own board using the following file:
CAD FILES IN .ZIP
Get Inspired
As robotics advance, the future could certainly involve humans and automated elements working together as a team. The question then becomes, how do you design such an interaction? A team of researchers from Purdue University attempt to provide a solution with their GhostAR system. The setup records human movements for playback later in augmented reality, while a robotic partner is programmed to work around a “ghost” avatar. This enables a user to plan out how to collaborate with the robot and work out kinks before actually performing a task. GhostAR's hardware includes an Oculus Rift headset and IR LED tracking, along with actual robots used in development. Simulation hardware consists of a six-axis Tinkerkit Braccio robot, as well as an Arduino-controlled omni-wheel base that can mount either a robot an arm or a camera as needed. More information on the project can be found in the team's research paper. With GhostX, whatever plan a user makes with the ghost form of the robot while wearing an augmented reality head mount is communicated to the real robot through a cloud connection – allowing both the user and robot to know what the other is doing as they perform a task.The system also allows the user plan a task directly in time and space and without any programming knowledge.First, the user acts out the human part of the task to be completed with a robot. The system then captures the human’s behavior and displays it to the user as an avatar ghost, representing the user’s presence in time and space.Using the human ghost as a time-space reference, the user programs the robot via its own ghost to match up with the human’s role. The user and robot then perform the task as their ghosts did.
