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Post 5 - Arms Race! - Part 1

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Hi folks. Well, here we are, the summer is definitely over and we seem to have skipped Autumn and gone straight into Winter! Or am I just feeling the cold more with each passing year? Lol. The holidays have been and gone, although I have a couple of trips left to look forward to. I’ve also had some paid work which helps to fund this Research & Development that I’m doing, until I get to the point where I can earn some money from what I’m doing! So, now that I’m back on the fun stuff, I’ve turned my attention to the next of the major physical sub-systems on my list – Arms. Now arms are quite complicated things mechanically, so rather than trying to build my own from scratch, I had a look around to see what I could pick up. There is quite an array of robot arms out there on the market, as a quick search on Google revealed, so the first task was to reduce the number of candidates by applying some criteria. I listed my basic requirements by jotting down what I wanted the a