A New Gripper for Mini Max

01 Jul 2011 3d-printing  robots  ros  I was never satisfied with the simple gripper we had put on the Mini Maxwell prototypes. It took a bit of time to actually sit down and create the gripper I wanted, but I've now printed up a couple prototypes:
The design was done in Autodesk Inventor:
There is a simple mechanism for converting the motion of a single AX-12 to parallel motion for both jaws: