By Design

A series of web pages to aid the process of product prototype design, in particular the rapid protyping (free form fabrication) of robotic, mechatronic and control concepts.

Manufacturing methods

Mould making and casting

Full Screen shaping plastics, polymorph Full Screen moulding, easyflow/ptflex Full Screen Alumilite.com Full Screen body mould

modular Construction

Fischertechnik

Full Screen Fischertechnik Rubic's Cube Solver Full Screen Fischer Technik Robotic Arm

Lego

Full Screen lego mindstorms creations

Flexlink Rexroth Item

mechano

Sheets/vacuum forming/sheet shapingx

Sheet metal bending

http://www.ocas.be/Prototypesmallseries

Actuators (possibly with sensors)

R/C servo

Open servo

://openservo.com/ openservo

Dynamixel

Dynamixel
Dynamixel AX-12+ 16 kg.cm Antratex (UK supplier)
Dynamixel Robosavy (UK supplier)

Used in Bioloid Robot Kit http://www.tribotix.info/Downloads/Robotis/Bioloid/Bioloid%20Brouchure.pdf

Robonova robot servo

HMI -Hitec Multi-protocol interface

Sensors (possibly with actuators)

IMU

Vision

Control

XPC target boxes

Remote control

Intelligence

Carbon fibre tube

PCBs

http://www.pcbtrain.co.uk/ pcb-pool http://www.cadsoft.de/