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Evezor Robotics and Automation Platform

A Networked set Robotic Arms, Motion platforms, sensors and more.
Easily programmed with a drag and drop interface.

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A Networked set Robotic Arms, Motion platforms, sensors and more!
Easily programmed with a drag and drop interface.

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This project has gotten massive but here's a small overview:

Introducing our newest robotic arm: Tobor

Tobor is a fully featured robotic system that can fit on your desktop and is capable of helping you automate your workflow. Tobor (robot spelled backwards), was built to be the most versatile open-source robotics system, which can be customized endlessly to meet your automation needs. Easily combine robotic arms, motion platforms, sensors, actuators, and more to create your unique machine.

See more on our Crowd Supply Page 

We're working hard to get all the source files in order. The best way to get them the soonest would be to follow our campaign

Use Tobor to Draw

Use Tobor to Assemble Circuit Boards

Edge Boards

Edge boards are a suite of discrete open source electronics boards networked through an open protocol developed by us and programmed using an easy to use drag and drop interface, also created by us. Network mediums currently are focused primarily on CAN bus, MQTT, and some APIs hosted by Evezor, covering the base cases of ease of use, low latency and communications over the internet.

Floe IDE

FLOE IDE is a drag and drop flow based programming language used to network robots over whatever but they are connected to. For quite a while now in the software world we've had tools like docker and kubernetes. Now it's time for the hardware world to have the same thing.

You can find a demo here: https://floe.evezor.com

Short Demo of Boards and IDE

One of my favorite videos

Santa wants to get some of our arms under some Christmas trees

And love for Hackaday

I've got a ton coming so follow here and subscribe to us on Crowd Supply

https://www.crowdsupply.com/evezor-inc/tobor-robotics-and-automation-platform

schematic.pdf

tobor's first iteration of controller board

Adobe Portable Document Format - 1.08 MB - 10/14/2024 at 03:19

Preview

  • Light Painting With Tobor

    anfroholic • 12/10/2024 at 07:31 • 0 comments

    I did some light painting with a neopixel and Tobor.


    I also made a tutorial on Hackster about how it was created.  https://www.hackster.io/anfroholic/cnc-robotic-light-painting-003908

    Also find out more about Tobor here on CrowdSupply https://www.crowdsupply.com/evezor-inc/tobor-robotics-and-automation-platform

  • An overview of Tobor

    anfroholic • 11/24/2024 at 19:20 • 0 comments

    I made a quick video going over some of the toolheads and options that are available so far.

    The best ways to get all the source files for our robots and programs and stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here. Thank you!

  • Playing Checkers and Collaborative Programming

    anfroholic • 11/20/2024 at 12:42 • 0 comments

    Tutorial on how to program Tobor to play checkers by simply dragging the arm around with your hands. Also learn to use generators to create complex behaviors. A more detailed and written accompaniment coming soon.

    We will be creating some text based accompaniments to this tutorial shortly, but wanted to share our progress. 

    The best ways to get all the source files and stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here. Thank you!

  • Collaborative Programming with Tobor: the Robotic Arm

    anfroholic • 11/18/2024 at 11:30 • 0 comments

    Collaborative programming lets humans and robots team up, boosting efficiency, learning, and innovation across industries. Perfect for automation!

    Drag around Tobor's arm to create way points and then use those to create a program.

    In this first video we just create a simple program that goes through a few waypoints, touches on some python and machine code, but keeps things pretty simple.



    We will be creating some text based accompaniments to this tutorial shortly, but wanted to share our progress. 


    The best ways to get all the source files and stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here. Thank you!

  • Chipy Talk: Python Generators and Using Them to Program Robots

    anfroholic • 11/16/2024 at 09:07 • 0 comments

    A few weeks ago I gave a talk at a Chipy (Chicago Python users group) meeting, where I talked about generators, what they are and how to use them. And using python and generators to make robots go!

    The best ways to get all the source files for our robots and programs and stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here. Thank you!

  • Introducing Floe - A browser-based IDE

    anfroholic • 11/12/2024 at 12:45 • 0 comments

    We will be creating some text based accompaniments to this tutorial shortly, but wanted to share our progress. 

    The best ways to get all the source files and stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here. Thank you!

  • Drawing with Makelangelo

    anfroholic • 11/08/2024 at 09:49 • 0 comments

    Drawing with Makelangelo

    We will be creating some text based accompaniments to this tutorial shortly, but wanted to share our progress.
    The best ways to get all the source files and stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here. Thank you!


  • Drawing with Inkscape: part 2

    anfroholic • 10/30/2024 at 18:17 • 0 comments

    Drawing with Inkscape: part 2
    Drawing Text Objects

    We will be creating some text based accompaniments to this tutorial shortly, but wanted to share our progress.
    The best ways to stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here. Thank you!

  • Drawing with Inkscape: part 1 video

    anfroholic • 10/27/2024 at 17:02 • 0 comments

    Drawing with Inkscape: Part 1

    We will be creating some text based accompaniments to this tutorial shortly, but wanted to share our progress.

    The best ways to stay up to date is to subscribe on Crowd Supply or to follow us here.
    Thank you!

  • Releasing Initial Version of Tobor Mainboard

    anfroholic • 10/14/2024 at 21:42 • 0 comments

    get more source files as we release them here


    It comes standard with:

    • ESP32 microcontroller with 4 MB SPIRAM
      • Runs Micropython
    • 3 DRV8825 stepper motor drivers
    • 2 AS5048B 14-bit absolute encoders
      • Allows for low/no motion homing
      • Collaborative programming
    • 8 position addressable LED ring
      • Can be used to display states of motors or the machine
    • External stepper driver and peripheral port
    • CNC controller powered by Fluid NC with dedicated FTDI and reset switch
    • Micro-SD card slot
    • WiFi enabled
    • CANbus Edge Board Interface
    • Servo header
    • 24 VDC power input
    • 1 user programmable tactile button
    • Reset button
    • FTDI port
    • Edgeboard standards
      • Heartbeat LED
      • Function button
      • Status addressable LED

    get more source files as we release them here

    In this github repo there are the initial versions of Tobor's mainboard

    https://github.com/evezor/tobor_v00

    get more source files as we release them here

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malvasio wrote 08/31/2017 at 07:38 • point

hi

is your scara use a rpicam and opencv ?

rpi2/3 ?

pick &place is nice but can it solder electronic too ?

i' m too much handicapped to use normal tools but i have lot of projects

so is your scara able to fully replicate itself for example ?

i have an arm project (mounted on a chassis with wheels to gain precision + reach) i absolutely need

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Oskar Weigl wrote 06/02/2017 at 03:16 • point

Interested in a collaboration to mix in high power servo drives?

https://hackaday.io/project/11583-odrive-high-performance-motor-control

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GrayPillow wrote 06/02/2017 at 03:25 • point

I think it's a goode Idea!

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anfroholic wrote 06/24/2017 at 08:07 • point

Yes definitely!  For the time being we're basing most of our hardware around the smoothieboard which has stepper drives standard,  we have our eyes on moving in that direction for our next rev.  Thanks!

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Oskar Weigl wrote 06/24/2017 at 17:08 • point

Have a look at the Juicyboard. It is based on the Smoothieboard, and supports many kinds of drive systems. ODrive will be included too.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/plugg-ee-labs/juicyboard#other-modules-in-the-pipeline

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anfroholic wrote 06/25/2017 at 10:35 • point

It's not letting me reply to your comment below so I will write it here.  "will be" makes it unfit for use at the moment.  I cannot use something unproven just yet.  Thanks for the heads up, that looks like a cool board and I will be keen on following its and your developement.

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GrayPillow wrote 05/31/2017 at 03:41 • point

Nice project, I have a plan to build a scara robot arm based on yours , and apply my control system https://hackaday.io/project/20980-ananasstepper-20

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anfroholic wrote 06/24/2017 at 07:57 • point

Cool! Nice drives!

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toms wrote 05/30/2017 at 07:07 • point

Hi! amazing project! As someone who was part of starting a hackerspace  I admire your commitment to all aspects of the project, implementing various applications, and general forward thinking. As someone who is interested in building robot arms, I am interested in the motor control aspects of the robot. I plan to use magnetic encoders. I noticed them in all the videos but they are barely mentioned elsewhere. Most 3D printers use stepper motors without encoder, and digging through the GitHub repo I could not find how these come into play. I see videos of you teaching the robot (impossible without encoders) - I assume this is all done with Processing code that runs on the Raspi? in conclusion I would really suggest adding a system diagram - what connects to what and how. the only place I found something similar was on the Kickstarter page for your project. Hopefully I can build on some of your work and share the results.

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anfroholic wrote 06/24/2017 at 08:01 • point

Thank you. At the moment the arm is driven primarily open loop. The encoders were only used directly in the collaboration demo.  I have taken off the encoders for the moment due to people telling me they're too ugly...  they will be coming back on board in the next rev along with full support as we have decided to opt with smoothieboard for the time being.

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kaoda wrote 05/04/2017 at 06:57 • point

Perfect work! 

just one question - what if steppers used are geared ones? Like 5,18:1, NEMA 17?
Are this will be enough for same movement clearance and power ratio?

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anfroholic wrote 05/08/2017 at 20:43 • point

Thank you! You run into speed vs. power compromises. A geared NEMA 17 would be slower than a straight NEMA 23.  Also depending on how you have things geared you may end up with undesirable backlash with a gearbox.

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kaoda wrote 05/09/2017 at 12:14 • point

You are totally right my friend! Great job!

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Morning.Star wrote 03/25/2017 at 10:18 • point

Lol I was going to ask what the banana was for but I made it down here anyway :-)

Really nice piece of heavy metal you have there, beautiful build. You must have a sweet workshop to be able to machine those parts...

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anfroholic wrote 03/25/2017 at 23:54 • point

I am very fortunate, yes.  Thank you for the kind comments.

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