Could I build a robot with dyBOT and a PC-based linear 6 axes motion controller?
It is certainly not an easy task to do, but the answer is yes, as long as the motion controller can interpolate the 6 axes at a time without any limitation. It is certainly more complicated (mechanically) to build a robot that a standard TTT milling machine, since mechanical errors are multiplied times the arm lengths and added to the error of the previous joints. Also, many security related issues (dead man switches, brakes, etc.) have more legal requirements for robots than for milling machines, since robots are more dangerous than milling machines. Even if we are not encouraging you to build your own robot, there is a good reason some one should do it: Robot controllers based on custom computers, since custom computers are not sold as much as PCs, can be limited by obsolete processors, memory spaces or communications. Often, the complexity of the work that can be built on a ($100.000+) robotized cell is limited by: a 1.44 Mbyte diskette (if not a 720 K), a 9600 baud serial communica
