A fun adventure into robotics and puzzles!

## A fun playground *** ### Motivation I have always loved seeing automation technologies in action and this was just a fun little project where I can continue to build that love for it. The intention is to have robot arm play a puzzle game of stacking cyliners of the same color on top of each other. It is kind of like Hanois tower but not quite at the same time. I would urge you to take a look at this video to see my inspiration: ### The Concept My thought process was to take a six axis robot arm and have it scoop the circles off of each peg to move them to the others. To do that I first had to make an arm! ### The Robot Arm I started by assembling a six-axis arm from Annin robotics. This arm was a project of its own and there might be a page on that coming soon!
ring Robot Arm
### The game pieces After completing the robot arm, I then had to figure out how to manipulate the game pieces for actually playing the game. I started by first using Onshape to design a bracket to hold the disks with the robot arm
ringHolder Ring Holder
Following the design of the holder, I printed it out and it was a perfect fit on the robot arm!
ringHolderOnArm Ring Holder
Naturally, the ring holder needed to hold something! Following the design and printing of the ring holder, I deigned a simple ring that has a groove in the bottom so that they can be manipulated with the robot arm!
ring Ring
After some more fun in Onshape, I was able to print a ring that nested perfectly in the groove on the holder. Additionally, there is a short cavity on the top that allows the rings to stack on top of each other!
ringBeingHeld Ring
Next up I need to design the pegs for the game and work on the algorithm for sorting the rings into their apropriate colors. I feel like this could be a really cool application of the A* algorithm but that is still to come!