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Anyone else here have happy memories of playing with Armatron? Circa 1984?

• manyturtles 6mo ago
  Apparently yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718493
• iancmceachern 6mo ago
  Yes! The most amazing part about those things was they achieved all those axis' of motion with one or two motors.
  • euroderf 6mo ago
    And the associated grinding noises were kinda scary but damn if the thing didn't hold up.
• pugworthy 6mo ago
  Oh hell yea! Just a few weeks ago at work we got a Universal Robots UR5 from another project in-house along with a Hand-E gripper. I've never had so much fun programming and playing with a device ever. And it completely took me back to getting an Armatron 40 years ago and having so much fun - but also wishing I could somehow control it with software.
• voxadam 6mo ago
  I still have mine sitting on a shelf in my office.