Design in Progress
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BenchBot V3 is a clean sheet design and will not specifically inherit any design aspects of previous versions. |
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BenchBot and the Image acquisition system will be treated as separate but connected systems / projects.
They must work together through a defined electrical, mechanical, and control interface but will not have their designs intertwined unnecessarily.
V3 Image Acquisition System Requirements - BenchBot - Confluence (atlassian.net)
The system will be based on the Amiga robot from farm-ng.
This will save considerable development and manufacturing time by essentially providing a fully electrically / mechanically functional Y axis.
PSA (Mark Funderburk ) will design the gantry structure and X Z motion hardware partially using electronics hardware from farm-ng.
Farm-ng will develop an API to control the BenchBot through simple go-to X Y Z commands.
PSA will be developing any other custom hardware needed for BenchBot that farm-ng was not already developing for other applications.
PSA software development will be beyond the API level and contained withing the scope of the payload project.
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