Building the Arm While you can buy the complete kit from Lynxmotion, I ordered only the arm hardware (AL5D-NS), optional wrist rotate assembly (LPA-01) and the servo controller (SSC-32) from their store. I bought the servo motors from ServoCity as they had a much wider selection and lower prices. Assembling the arm was straightforward and required just basic tools: [...]

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Finding Bobby In my quest to build a $1000 personal robot, I spent some time figuring how to build a functional yet affordable mechanical arm that can pick up small objects, play chess and do other useful stuff. Point #2: I want a design that can be reproduced by anyone with basic mechanical and programming [...]

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