Spider rig
Venture Category: Robotics
Community: Sensorica
Embedded Files
We have finished our collaboration with the original sponsor. Anyone can now take this venture further. Feel free to take on the role of animator.
Objectives
Objectives
Design and prototype a planar cable parallel robot, able to move a load in 3D space with constant and small speed, close to equilibrium, and with real time feedback from the actual position of the end effector.
Description
Description
Following in the footsteps of the HangPrinter project, our aim is to democratize (open source) cable robots.
The project stated on August 24th, 2018.
This project was financially sponsored until September 25th. We are looking for new sponsors.
Challenge
Produce a low-cost, open source cable robot prototype.
Use low-cost and readily available components, as much as possible open source
Produce a complete documentation for assembly and operations.
Applications
3D printing, smart agriculture, manufacturing (pick and place), ...
Requirements
Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Communication channels
Communication channels
Messaging: Discord channel.
For more generic discussions: Open forum, Main Sensorica mailing list
Social media: Sensorica Facebook page
Coordination tools
Coordination tools
Planning
Planning
Venture status
Dormant at prototyping stage
Current needs
New sponsor
Software and hardware engineers
Animators
Notes
Notes
[you need to become a project affiliate to gain access to edit the website, in order to update these notes]
Onboarding
Onboarding
Anyone can contribute to this project. You can join by filling THIS form.
Before, you might want to familiarize yourself with the rules of engagement: Project Governance.
If you are not already an affiliate of Sensorica someone will answer you and help you join and get up to speed.
Workflow
Workflow
This webpage is for general information and orientation.
We document our work in THIS folder. [see also Database below, you get edit permission after joining the project]
We log our contributions and deliverables in the NRP-CAS. [see Planning below, you get access after joining the project and contributing]
Tools, activities, and processes
Tools, activities, and processes
Project folder (containing all important files)
Project NRP-CAS (planning and contributions)
Diigo (knowledge base)
Literature
Literature
Open page with most relevant books and papers.
Documentation repository
Documentation repository
Incentives
Incentives
apply your work to a project for common good that can generate an inestimable social impact
experience Sensorica's highly collaborative methodologies (applicable to the open science paradigm)
play with other “crazy” and passionate people
use the results in any way you see fit, since this system will be released with an open source licence, with rights for commercialization
be financially rewarded for your contribution (a modest 50$/hour) since this project is sponsored
Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
------------------------------------------------------
More on p2p economic models
VENTURES are COLLABORATIVE, TRANSPARENT (anyone has access to the information that they produce) and OPEN (anyone can participate). They only produce deliverables based on OPEN SOURCE technology. VENTURES have a CUSTODIAN that represents them legally and acts as a trust for their tangible assets. VENTURES can have multiple EXCHANGE FIRMS, which are commercial entities that move products and services developed by VENTURES on the MARKET. EXCHANGE FIRMS oblige themselves by contract with the CUSTODIAN to share PROFIT with all contributors to VENTURES, from which they commercialize PRODUCTS.
Open Venture governance document
[Instruction: link to governance doc, use template to create governance - delete this after]Organizational context
Organizational context
Agreements
Agreements
Exchange Firm Agreement [provide link]
Can we extend the capabilities of FarmBot by replacing the CNC frame with a more versatile string hanging rig?
Can we improve the capabilities of the Hangprinter by rethinking its motion control system?
Contributions
Contributions
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse