My New Toy
$150 and $20 in gas later, I brought home my latest Craigslist find today. A dusty plastic bin full of distraction. A used, untested Crustcrawler SG5-UT robot arm. Parallax Boe & servo controller boards and a loose yellow BASIC Stamp rattling around the bottom of the bin BS2P-24 (?). Didn't have too much time for inspection, and I'm waiting to sneak it into the house later under cover of darkness. Won't the wife be surprised? ![:) :)](https://forums.parallax.com/resources/emoji/smile.png)
Will post follow up later unless she breaks my arm. Not sure which arm would be her first choice...
![:) :)](https://forums.parallax.com/resources/emoji/smile.png)
Will post follow up later unless she breaks my arm. Not sure which arm would be her first choice...
![SG5_folded_800.jpg](https://forums.parallax.com/uploads/attachments/52443/88258.jpg)
Comments
Given that your arm will heal, but the robot won't. I think you should take one for the team if it comes down to it.
Perhaps you could demo it to your wife holding some jewelry? Actually - if she hasn't ditched you by now - you are probably safe.
You could always try... "Look Mom! It followed me home. Can I keep it?". That worked for me a couple of times. Of course that was with a stray cat, not a robot arm. :-)
Amanda
The bad news: I'm so swamped it'll be a month before I have time to play with it. Ah, well...