Is there any way I am able to get any of the discontinued items… they appear cheaper and still good enough to practice on so to speak, particularly that catepillar thing
hi.
these “discontinued” items are what they say they are. you may find it more fun and rewarding to download the tutorials and make the parts yourself.
would make a great feature for a project. 
i was luck enough to own one: the EH3-r hexapod.
iv just sold off the lexan parts, i could have sold them to you. 
they may still hold stock!
i have been hoping that jim would remake the EH3-r parts in aluminium. would look very cool.
hi i want to purchase L6AC but show on stock out of stock.
plz guide me to purchase to robotic arm
Your best bet is to find a distributor or retailer that happens to have one in stock still.
If Lynxmotion still had any to sell they would more than likely be available in their store online, which they do not appear to be.
google.com is as good a starting place as any.
Hi,
I’m also looking for a cheap method to build an arm and to experiment with ist. For me the lynx 6 is a great thing.
The new ones are very usefull and much stronger I know. However for the first contact the old Versions are good also.
The other thing is that with the old construction ist should be easyer to build everything by myself.
So if this parts no longer will be in stock, would it be possible to put the drawings with all the measures on to the web?
This would help all the guys saving money and having fun while building.
Thanks
mws
I don’t think this is going to happen, but if you really want to build your own arm, you are free to design your own parts. One option is to download eMAchineShop’s free software program which is a very simple and easy to use program that will allow you to export DXF files to cut your own parts. Another option is to download Alibre Express and design your parts, but it’s a little more complex and may take longer to learn how to use. Its very easy to make flat parts like the arm uses and use stand-offs to assemble the pieces. Lynxmotion sells the rotating base in case you don’t want to build your own.
If you are wanting to DIY to save money, you should be able to carefully study pix and construction manuals of various arm designs and fabricate your own. Publishing specific manufacturing drawings probably would encourage knockoff parts to be fabricated and sold.
Yeah, published plans would invite knock-offs. the LM brackets are a pretty good value anyway. If you have to pay to have the sheet metal parts made, it could be way expensive. And even if you can make them yourself, it takes TIME! Study an SES arm design, buy a few parts and servos at a time, run it with an SSC-32 from your PC, and over time you’ll have your arm!
For the DIY experience, maybe pick a part or two to design and build for your self! But make it different/improved. I will buy a bracket or part if it fits my needs. If not, then I design and make it myself.
Alan KM6VV
Hi,
sn96
that’s a good idea with the software, thank you.
@All
You are right, building all the parts by myselve will take time but it’s a hobby, it shall take time but with good plans the result will be good.
I dont think that publishing plans will knockof. These arms are used by schools, universities and companies fer studying. They wont build the parts by themselve. Only such hobby robotics like me will do so.
However perhaps it would be god to buy parts as needed and build an arm step by step. Unfortunately here in Germany the parts are realy expensive when ordering at the distributor becuase of shipping and tax. It become more than double expensive as in USA. If I would know someone who could send me the parts as private this costs will be reduced dramatically but I don’t know anybody in USA 
Hay! You know us! What neat stuff do you have in Germany to exchange? Just a thought. but you end up paying shipping twice.
Can you get the servos over there?
You can bang out a ‘C’ bracket easily (well, fairly easy) enough, but some like the universal bracket would tax a good sheetmetal man! there are cad drawing of the brackets, of course. The hole alignment is what I’d worry about. and metric reamers are expensive (maybe not there!). A small 18" sheetmetal brake does the trick for me, I made brackets for my “Creepy Hybrid” elsewhere in this forum.
Alan KM6VV
kindly guide me is there any dealer give L6AC robotic arm on lynxmotion price $388.75 with all accessories 
Sorry but what did you mean with beat stuff?
We can buy the Hitec Servos here in Germany. Thats not a problem. And here all the tools are metric, here it is a problem to get not metric tools 
“Neat”, interesting, new robot products. Of course you could always send money by PayPal to a partner here in the states.
Very simple tools are needed to build the LM arms.
What processor boards do you have available?
Alan KM6VV
OK, thank you! PayPal is a good idea.
I want to use a standard avr board with some extra components like an LC-Display, some buttons and sensors and my own servo and sensor analysis program.
This is a good thing to spend time and to learn much about the basics. However, the controler syntax like the SC32 will be very useful I guess.
Also the PC program I want to build by myself. At the end I want to play “connect four” against my PC with a real board.
I have seen this some years ago at the Hannover fair here in Germany.
After this there is the idea to play checkers. However this will need much more information about the board. Maybe I will use a cam to analyze how the gaming pieces are laying at the board.
mws
Yes, you’ll want to get an SSC-32 and a few servos to enable you to start learning the commands.
Connect Four! that would be a good exercise for an arm! Checkers or Chess too!
Check out the CMU2 cam for the vision. I don’t have one yet, but they look interesting.
Alan KM6VV
I want to program my own Servo Controller but the commands from the sc32 are looking very useful.
For the Connect Four I do not need a cam. It should be enough when I use 7 light beams so that the system knows in which hole the real player has put his gaming piece in. The rest will be done by the software. Because I will use a standard Atmel32 Board as servo controller there are many pins left for the light beams and it should be possible to send the result via serial port to the pc. While testing the LCD will help showing the state of the system directly and at the end it will show some information to the player.
So my to-do list is looking like this:
]Getting the Board with an LCD and an telephone keyboard and some servos (I hope I will get all the needed parts this or next week)/:m]
]Programming the board so that all functionality I need is included (this will take some time i guess, because job and family are also there )/:m]
]Try to get the servos working with some pc software/:m]
]Getting a connect four game and putting the sensors to the board/:m]
]Try to let servos and sensors interact with the pc/:m]
]Getting the Arm and have some fun while testing it /:m]
]Programming the game logic/:m]
]Putting all together/:m]
It looks like this is a lot of time I can spend with this project and I hope I will have the money when I need it. OK it would be very nice if I could get the arm earlier than shown in the list but it is enough to do to save money for buing the AL5D.
mws
Sounds like an interesting project!
I take it the robot arm is going to play against a human operator? That should be interesting!
Alan KM6VV
Jepp I think so too :mrgreen:
I have orderd my Atmel32 Board and the progger the project can start!
However learning the c derivat and managing all the possible things will take some time and I guess it will be exciting!
I will inform you from time to time about the project state.
mws