Robotic Arm: Built from Scratch

A robotic arm I built from scratch, with a Tkinter interface simple enough that anyone can drive it. 1st Place, State of Illinois Robotics.

03 — 2021 · raspberry-pi · python · robotics · gui

★ 1st Place — State of Illinois Robotics

The robotic arm on the competition table with its control station and first-place ribbon

I designed and built this arm myself: the frame, the wiring, and the Raspberry Pi that drives the servos through an Adafruit motor HAT.

Then I wrapped it in a Tkinter control panel, so it wasn’t just mine to use. Anyone can pick it up and move the arm without reading a line of code, and the end effector takes swappable mounts for gripping.

It took first place at the State of Illinois Robotics competition.

Bryce presenting the custom robotic arm at the Illinois Extension Robotics Innovation table — Fig. 01 — Presenting at the Illinois Extension Robotics Innovation table