How-To: Design a robotic hand - a vector art CNC tutorial

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Isaac @ Dec 18th 2006 4:17PM

I, for one, welcome our kinda robotic, yet unpowered, hand masters with a warm handshake.

Funny story dedicated to "..." about living in the 21st century. A few years ago I had a brief job working for a company that made radome dishes for radar installations (like for the FAA, their biggest customer). They designed and manufactured these hugs ceramic polygons (mostly triangles) right there and shipped them out to be installed on site. I was going to build out their network, since they didn't have one. At all. 103 people, 60 odd PC's ranging from 8088's to a couple 486's for the big wigs. My office was among the engineers. They had gotten a $20K+ DEC AlphaStation w/AutoCAD package w/21" monitor (huge and rare at the time). I was almost drooling over it. My boss said it never got used. The engineers refused to try to learn AutoCAD. They were much happier with their T-squares and drafting tables. Having had 2 classes of drafting in high school and having tried to learn AutoCAD myself...... I'd say I'd have to agree with them to some extent. Since they did everything from from the design to the manufacturing phase right there in-house, it's not like nowadays where companies research in California, design in London, engineer in NY, then send the final manufacturing plans to China for fabrication. All of which would make large rolled up canisters of plans difficult.

To be honest I enjoyed drafting and would probably take a class in it as an elective if I ever get off my butt and go for my degree. I've recently gotten into woodworking and I'd honestly rather draw out my ideas on my drafting table than trying to figure out AutoCAD. Although I know if I actually put in the time to learn it, and maybe got a Wacom tablet or something, that I'd probably love it...

Just saying, it really wasn't that bad back in the stone age of drafting. ;)

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