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From: jeremi@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (William Jeremiah)
Subject: Re: cheap (toy) arms?
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Bulent Murtezaoglu (mucit@cs.rochester.edu) wrote:

: A friend of mine is looking for a [possibly 2] cheap arm[s] possibly with
: simple grippers for a Church activity.  The aim is hooking up the arm[s]
: to a PC and having the kids enter stuff to the PC (co-ordinates maybe, 
: nothing fancy) to make the arms move and do things.  If anyone knows where 
: to find such beasts, and has ideas about getting kids interested in robotics 
: through hands-on experience in general please contact

: Daniel Marcellus by e-mail at 76476.3603@compuserve.com.

: Thanks.

: -M
:  

Ok.  I have what Radio Shack sold as the Armatron way back when.  And Radio
Shack published an article on modifying it to work from a parallel port.

I'm not sure where you can get this Armatron anymore though.

Jerry
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