Comment by charleszyong
5 days ago
Thank you for the suggestions. I hear you. When I was at college, the school system basically only allowed Amazon plus a few industry-specific suppliers. Please allow me to prioritize manufacturing and testing so that I can ship the product as soon as possible and with the highest quality possible. Then I will start expanding sales.
Also, the servos we are using actually have a version that has lower torque/force output, which would be safer for students but also limit what they can do with it. Would you be interested in the "safer" version for classes?
I was just a TA, but the big issues for my professor were cost (a lot of arms cost 1000+, so if you’re buying 30 then that’s $30k+ which is hard to budget for) or it was number of axis. Since it was a class he wanted more motors, which made the arm more complex and more similar to the real world. Counter-intuitively to teach someone about robotics you want an arm that’s complex so students have more to learn, students would have to implement their own kinematics and some of the affordable ones were too simple. I never heard him mention anything about motor safety, and when we had to fix them we would often buy stronger, metal gear servos as replacements.
I love the product though, and I appreciate your input!