Flowbotics Studio to program CrustCrawler AX Series Arms?

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Hi all,

I am a newbie to robotics but experienced as a web applications software engineer. I am speccing out a first hobby project to attempt some very basic cooking tasks with robotic arms. Given my budget, I’m trying to decide between the AL5D series arms and the CrustCrawler AX series arms. (Though other suggestions welcome.)

The AL5D clearly has tight integration with Flowbotics Studio.
The AX arms seem to offer more advanced hardware, although it costs more as well. It’s nice to know there is a steady hardware upgrade path that doesn’t involve large jumps in cost.
The CrustCrawler website does not mention support for Flowbotics studio. It says, ROS, Matlab, and Labview. All of these options look much more time consuming to use than Flowbotics Studio.
crustcrawler.com/products/AX … tic%20Arm/

However, here is a video of someone controlling an AX arm from Flowbotics Studio
youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8bkH8PQHE

Is programming an AX arm any different than programming an AL5D arm with Flowbotics Studio?
What are the advantages/disadvantages?

Thanks for you help,

Ed

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Unfortunately FlowBotics currently does not have a direct module or APP which works with the Crustcrawler arms, so that designer likely adapted the signals being sent in order to operate the arm. Nicely done too.

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Thanks, in the meantime, I found this test program from the dsprobotics site admin.

dsprobotics.com/support/view … f=53&t=352

Perhaps he used that?

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You can give it a try :slight_smile: