Making A Robot To Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks

A maker converted a small Denso VS050 industrial robotic arm into a badminton shuttlecock-serving robot, aiming to solve the problem that badminton normally requires two players. The build uses a pneumatic grabber to pick shuttlecocks from a hopper and feed them into spinning launch wheels, controlled by an ATmega AVR microcontroller chosen over a Raspberry Pi Pico for its input-output capabilities. Extensive 3D printing and testing went into finding the right disc material (3D printed plastic with a silicone gripping strip) for consistent, well-balanced shuttlecock launches.

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