I have been abusing it for 8 months straight and too be honest I was trying to break it. Software has a lot of safety features to not hit joint limits, speed limits, ESTOP is operational... Only problem is that robot has no brakes so during power loss it falls. I thought it will be fatal for robot to fall like that but it survived it multiple times. Only parts that brake are esthetics and covers. Also i thought that repetability will suffer under such abuse but it stayed the same. The clip on youtube is after 6 months of a lot of use.
That is basically why made this robot. During my high school days we were 30 students on ONE old mitsubishi robot that was pain to program and was dangerous. On collages it was "oh we have 2 40000 euro robots but they are too expensive for students". So in both world we were mostly on simulators and simulators suck. I started with faze4 robot that was financed by my college but it was too large robot and i did not write any good software for it. More impressive thing than mechanical part or PAROL6 is its software and GUI. It is made for easy programming, has build in scripting language, jog control, error logging... Also i plan to port all my robots to that software and in the future make it universal for any robot. So you get a PCB that can communicate with the PAROL6 software, configure your robot kinematics and you are up and running.
Hi guys I am the creator of PAROL6 arm. I was not aware of this community so if you have any questions feel free to ask me here. Also new video is up explaining more things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBCbHtvbpE&ab_channel=Sourc...
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Hi i am creator of PAROL6, the BOM link is fixed. Also about the bom it will soon be updated in more detail. My focus is now more on software and finishing touches on hardware to make it safe so some changes happen in BOM. That is why is seems "incomplete or rough"