Industrial robot arm used as a hypnotic clock


Got a spare Denso 6DOF industrial robot arm? Why not program it to play the integral role in a large round clock, hypnotically sweeping back and forth in regular, smooth arcs, plucking bricks and moving them, resetting them and keeping time? Seriously, this is endlessly fascinating. Link (Thanks, Dean!)

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