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Improving the grip design

A project log for MeArm Raspberry Pi Edition

A robot arm kit that works with the Raspberry Pi

mime-industriesMime Industries 11/04/2016 at 11:130 Comments

I've put some effort into improving the stability of the mechanical design for the grip. Here's what it was like before:

You can see that the blue sides push on and then are held in place by the base which slides in. I found that the top of the sides ended up quite loose which is no good. Here's the improved version:

The blue sides now hook under the white tabs at the top and then their bottoms are locked in place by the sliding base. It's a variant of the assembly technique used in Mirobot but it's quite a neat trick that I'll detail in another update. One of the side effects of this technique is that there are a lot fewer screws used in the grip now; it's down to 1 from 9! There's a single screw which now locks everything together.

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