Kinetic Integrator Device (KID)

KID is an effort by me to construct a robotic arm. I think that one of the major limits of a system is that systems ability to interact with its environment through its sensory and motor apparatuses, and that simulation of an environment for training a system is [1] prone to leaving out important but hard to simulate dynamics that exist in the real world and [2] is less cool. I looked around for a robotic arm I could buy, but there's pretty much nothing in my price range that's any better than a simple claw, which I'm not interested in. So, I decided to just build my own! This is one of several things I'm juggling so new posts are infrequent, but at the end I'll make a single comprehensive tutorial with links to materials and digital resources used in the construction of the "final" iteration.


• Robotic Hand
• Robotic Hand: II