South African Maker re-creates the economical open source 3D printing robot PLENZ

South African Maker re-creates the economical open source 3D printing robot PLENZA

In March of this year, Japan's PLEN Project launched a 3D printed open source robot PLEN2. Yes, this is the cute little guy below. It can not only walk like a human, but also imitate the movements of dancing or dancing. Great, right? In order to better attract consumers and programmers, the company not only freely open source 3D data files for all major components, but also disclosed its full source code compatible with Arduino software. But getting a PLEN2 still costs a lot of money—the official assembly kit costs $899; even if you print all the printable components yourself, the remaining motor + control board + other electronics still cost as much as $549.

South African Maker re-creates the economical open source 3D printing robot PLENZA

However, this situation has changed, because several big cattle makers of BinarySpace in South Africa's maker space have redesigned PLEN2, replacing the expensive original models with the 9g servo system that is everywhere in South Africa. The economic version of PLENZA. Now, just go to Github (click to enter) and anyone can download it for free and build your own PLENZA at a lower cost.

South African Maker re-creates the economical open source 3D printing robot PLENZA

According to China's 3D printing first interactive media platform, the Antarctic bear understands that since PLENZA is improved based on PLEN2, it can do anything that the former can do. To reduce overall cost, its 3D printing components were redesigned by designer Andries Smuts. All of these improvements have reduced the cost of PLENZA to only $132, which is almost 85% lower than the original PLEN2.

South African Maker re-creates the economical open source 3D printing robot PLENZA

PLEN2 has conducted crowdfunding on Kickstarter and successfully raised $66,000. Natsuo Akazawa, founder of PLEN Project, once said that their purpose in developing humanoid robots is to advance the relationship between people and technology. "We believe that robots will not replace us, but will be our help. We strongly believe that if we use it with a positive attitude, science and technology can enrich everyone in the world." Although the BinarySpace team said that their PLENZA is still It is under development, but it is still a promising project because its primary purpose is to improve the achievability and social acceptance of robotics.

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