Don Lancaster's Flutterwumper Library

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Flutterwumpers are low end robotic devices that spit or chomp.

Such as printed circuit drills, animation stands, sign routers, CAD/CAM mills, plotters, Santa Claus machines, etc. A new approach to designing these machines can involve the PIC micro or the Raspberry Pi.

It seems possible that the superb general purpose PostScript language can serve as a front end document generator allowing flutterwumpers with extremely low end and low cost and very simple microprocessor Microcontrollers.

Obvious benefits include bringing circles, curves, and fonts to devices otherwise having very limited positioning and imaging capabilities. Or doing very exotic coordinate transforms.

The recommended way to generate a flutfile is to create a .psl ordinary textfile and send it to Acrobat Distiller by way of a command line //acrodist /F. The /F is particularly important when Distiller is to read or write disk files.

This library holds a number of older papers on flutterwumper potential.

I haven't done all that much with flutterwumpers lately, but it still sure seems like it still could lead to some really impressive low end robotics. Several currently active third party resources are also included below.

Hexapods are a newer method of six axis "virtual ways" machining. By using "pushme-pullyou" techniques that make use of mostly linear translation and have very little wear. They are revolutionizing machining, materials handling cranes, telescopes, vibration isolation, and robotics.

Note that some six legged robots also use the term "Hexapod" in violation of Hexel's trademark's. These use a different concept.

Hexapods are also sometimes called Stewart Platforms or Parallel Link Manipulators.

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