Robotic arm to load CD into a drive and into a printer? - Club CDFreaks

tiny_tim · 03-05-2006

We are looking for a Robotic arm that can be controlled by RS-232 that can load a CD/DVD into a drive and into a printer. We don’t want a finished product, but the components (and control codes). If that doesn’t work then we could look at taking an existing system and modifying it.

*ftp1020* · 03-05-2006

Don't get the one from CyberDyne Systems. During its off-hours, it keeps thumbing through the phone book looking for someone called "Sara Connor".

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html

*Mr. Brownstone* · 03-05-2006

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Originally Posted by ftp1020

Don't get the one from CyberDyne Systems. During its off-hours, it keeps thumbing through the phone book looking for someone called "Sara Connor".

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html

Fallingwater · 04-05-2006

Kinda reminds me of Emmet "Doc" Brown's dog-food robotic arm in Back to the future...

delacroix · 02-08-2006

tim: theres a fair amount of work involved in making arms like that. You said you didnt want a complete system, but unless you have access to a workshop, good electronics skills, and a big chunk of spare time you would be better off just buying one.

As for someone providing 'just the arm', the arms are usually designed from scratch around the drive placements you want, and are highly integrated with the drive electronics and controller (+firmware, drivers etc).

Are you doing this as a company, or a hobby project?

03-05-2006	#1 (permalink)
tiny_tim New on Forum Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1	Robotic arm to load CD into a drive and into a printer? We are looking for a Robotic arm that can be controlled by RS-232 that can load a CD/DVD into a drive and into a printer. We don’t want a finished product, but the components (and control codes). If that doesn’t work then we could look at taking an existing system and modifying it.

03-05-2006	#2 (permalink)
ftp1020 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 948	Re: Robotic arm to load CD into a drive and into a printer? Don't get the one from CyberDyne Systems. During its off-hours, it keeps thumbing through the phone book looking for someone called "Sara Connor". http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html

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Fallingwater CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 429	Re: Robotic arm to load CD into a drive and into a printer? Kinda reminds me of Emmet "Doc" Brown's dog-food robotic arm in Back to the future...

02-08-2006	#5 (permalink)
delacroix New on Forum Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4	Re: Robotic arm to load CD into a drive and into a printer? tim: theres a fair amount of work involved in making arms like that. You said you didnt want a complete system, but unless you have access to a workshop, good electronics skills, and a big chunk of spare time you would be better off just buying one. As for someone providing 'just the arm', the arms are usually designed from scratch around the drive placements you want, and are highly integrated with the drive electronics and controller (+firmware, drivers etc). Are you doing this as a company, or a hobby project?

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