Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] stewart platform

did you check out http://robofac.sourceforge.net/
one of the few DIY hexapods I have seen on the net. click screenshots
and download a video at the bottom of the page.
there's a cnczone thread about the machine at:
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7467.html

If you just find the kinematics interesting and want to play around, you
could suspend the moving platform from strings. I remembers seeing
pictures of a couple of these kind of machines but I can't find the
links now...

If someone can come up with a smart way of calibrating home made
parallell robots, then I'm very interested too - until then I'm sticking
with a simple cartesian mill...

> I'm curious about the Stewart platform, and what kind of actuators might be
> salvaged to create a small one - like meter or less in dia? I suppose just
> some salvage steppers with threaded rod, but if others might have better
> ideas, I'd love to hear. One of these "sandtables" would be cool to build.
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