Primary structure of Handibot Smart tool
A Handibot tool is a new kind of portable, digitally-controlled power tool for cutting, drilling, carving, and many other machining operations– a first Universal Digital Power Tool (UDPT) – or just, a Smart Tool. If you're familiar with industrial CNC (computer numerically controlled) equipment, think of the Handibot tool as a portable version of CNC. But instead of taking material to a stationary machine, you bring the Handibot to your material -- your jobsite, your remodeling task, your project, your work.
You can put your Handibot tool to work on a table, the floor, the ceiling, the wall, wherever you need to precisely cut, drill, or carve. Armed with a software application developed just for the kind of job you need to do, a Handibot tool is ready to go to work on your job, task, or project with a squeeze of the “Start” button.
Handibot is an “open innovation” project. We’re setting up an open application and resource system to encourage the development of job-related apps that are ready to run on any Handibot.
And to encourage the evolution of hardware and accessories, Handibot tools will be open source hardware. This repository is the beginning of our documentation of the Handibot system.
See these links for more details.
- Handibot Kickstarter
- Handibot Website
- [Simplified Sketchup Models] (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=handibot&styp=m&scoring=t&btnG=Search)