Got a plan to anchor the beast to the ground. Decided to just drill holes and epoxy threaded rods. The slab is ~6″ deep. Guy hit rebar in three of the holes so those ones are only about 3″, but it still works out. Continue reading Anchors →

This is embarrassing, but turns out the actuator pin thing in the gauge cartridge was just stuck in the cap. Should have noticed that I guess. I made Nick Continue reading Gauge Cartridge “fixed” →

Received today. I guess they forgot to stick it on the controller. This is just a plug that’s jumping a bunch of pins on a safety circuit. Can’t run the robot without it or you get emergency stops.

Having read up on mastering I decided to check under the caps of all the gauge cartridges. When I pulled the cap off Axis 4, I find no actuator, just Continue reading Gauge Cartridge Mystery →

Showed up on a flatbed with another identical robot. Didn’t know which one was ours, so I took the nicer looking one.

It was pouring rain. The controller was reasonably well wrapped, but there was nothing between Continue reading Robot Arrives →

We use PowerMILL (made by Delcam, now owned by Autodesk) to program our 5-axis CNC machines. Naturally we looked into using PMill to program the robot and learned that this requires that the controller have a Continue reading CamROB →

Went to Waterford outside of Detroit to inspect the robots, specifically the KR 150s. Spent the day jogging them around, asking questions, and checking repeatability with a dial Continue reading Detroit →