Annin Robotics Releases Final Mark 5 Revision of Open Source AR4 Robot Arm Kit
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Summary
Engineer Chris Annin has released the Mark 5 revision of the AR4 open source six-degrees-of-freedom robot arm kit, upgrading calibration limit switches to Hall effect sensors and modifying some aluminum mounting points. Annin declares this the final planned hardware revision for the foreseeable future, marking the project as complete. The AR4 is a build-it-yourself robot arm kit aimed at makers, hobbyists, and robotics enthusiasts.
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· 4 pulledThe Mark 5 update isn't a huge update.
It just upgrades some of the calibration limit switches to Hall effect sensors, and that changed a few mounting points on the aluminum parts.
But this update should be the last update for the arm itself for the foreseeable future.
This is the last of the updates I had on my list to comp
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