About Faze4¶

General info¶

Faze4 robotic arm came to be when i made a working 3d printable cycloidal gearbox and saw some potential in it. After that i designed whole arm around it. It uses 6 stepper motors, so it is a 6 axis robot arm. While designing this arm i focused on low backlash and good design of arm. All wires are hidden and arm is really rigid even tho it is 3d printed. Total cost of the arm is around 1000 - 1500 dollars.

Note

This project is still work in progress. Part that is work in progress is control cabinet, that means that the arm can be built and it will work without the cabinet.

Esthetic design was inspired by FANUC’s LR Mate 200iD. Goal was also to hide all wires in the arm like most industrial arms do. Only visible wires (or pipes) would be ones for gripper.

Weight of the arm is around 14-15 kg , but it can be reduced by printing with less infill.

Low level control for the arm runs on teesny 3.5, while high level (inverse kinematics, simulations) are only on Matlab code atm, but I am working on ROS implementation and porting my Matlab code to Python.

Table of contents¶

On this read the docs page you will find:

How is arm desinged and desing decisions
Printing tips
Electronics guide and PCB
Building instructions for the arm
All code and programs used
How to test and troubleshoot
Sources
Where to buy parts

Check the arm in action !¶

Support the project¶

This project is completely Open source and free to all and I would like to keep it that way, so any help in terms of donations or advice is really appreciated. Thank you!