Spirobot is a kinetic art piece inspired by the paths of spinning objects. It is composed of a belt driven staff rotating on the end of a larger directly driven arm. It features 2 control knobs that let the viewer directly control the position of the 2 moving pieces. I used DC motors to drive the kinetic elements with encoders to sense position for feedback control. The piece was laser cut out of wood and acrylic. This was my senior thesis for my undergraduate degree in Robotics Engineering at UC Santa Cruz

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