[Noisebridge-discuss] About the missing robotic arm on wheel chair robot

[Martin Bogomolni]

As a safety-third advocate, I still concur that a nice large e-stop
button would be a very, very, very good idea on the wheelchair bot.

( ... and I'm someone that likes to build machines that throw 2x4's
into things )

-M

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Gopiballava Flaherty
<gopiballava at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 17:07, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> Some people thought it was too unweildy
>
> Unwieldy would be one way to describe it. Dangerous would be a more accurate way.
>
> The last time I saw the robot in use, it was randomly crashing in to bikes and had no functional emergency stop mechanism. It was quite challenging to stop it.
>
> The motors are high torque and fast. Without the arm, the robot is pretty dangerous. With it, it is potentially lethal.
>
> I would encourage you to consider safety first and figure out how to properly control and stop the robot before you make it even more dangerous.
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