Hello,
I am new to the robotic arm field and I need so help. I have a T- shirt company and I want to add another demension to my business. I remember a while back I went to Disney World and saw robotic arms airbrushing T- shirts. Is it possible to recreate this but on a smaller scale. Let me know.
Rob Sims
Simsfx
First question that comes to mind from the description is if you are looking to do this from the standpoint of automating a production process, or if you are making a sales display item to have in a booth and draw attention. While the end product may be the close to the same, i.e. a air brushed t-shirt, the design approach is probably a bit different and the equipment probably is as well.
Well what I would like is a dozen or so designs store in a computer the customer can choose which design they like and add there name to the design then the costumer lets me know what they want I load a shirt on a platen in front of a robot arm with an airbrush attachment the design is load and executed and the arm commences to recreate that design on the shirt.
The arms should be able to move the airbrush with pretty good repeatability, but the largest arm has only about a 13" x 13" work area. Assuming this is large enough do you have the details worked out for the air brush itself? How do you plan to change the colors being sprayed?What does it weigh? The servo powered arms are not incredibly powerful.
The was a company in the late 80’s called Automated Artist who developed this exact idea that I have. They are the ones who made the airbrush robots for Disney but they are out of business now so there is no way of contacting them.
You might be able to get away with it using R/C servos. But why not consider using what the woodworking industry calls a CNC Router. This is an X-Y table (big!) with little or no Z axis move. A plasma torch is a similar example. Move the airbrush, actuate the trigger on the gun.
Alan KM6VV
