Every Source Robotics manual is rebuilt. The pages follow the firmware and software they describe, and every command and setting in them was checked against that code before it went online.
At a glance
- PAROL6: a quick start for self-built arms, joint ranges drawn from the robot model, a known issues page and one page for every download.
- STEPFOC and Spectral Micro: manuals for firmware 108 and 107, with the default settings taken from the firmware source.
- SSG-48 and MSG gripper: manual 2 and manual 1.2, for their new releases, with the data for robot integration.
- The driver manuals keep their older versions online, for boards that still run older firmware.
PAROL6: from a fresh PC to the first homing
The new quick start is written for someone who built the arm and has never used a terminal or Python. It goes in the order you need it:
- Install Git and Python, and give each program its own virtual environment.
- Upload the firmware to the control board.
- Set the board's serial port in the commander.
- Move joint 2 in the negative direction, then run the checks the page lists before homing.
- Home the arm, and park it before you switch it off.
The figures in the technical chapter are drawn from the PAROL6 robot model rather than by hand, so the ranges, directions and poses match the arm. The new known issues page lists what we know is wrong in the firmware, the commander and the Python API, and each entry says whether it is fixed. Firmware, software and models are on one downloads page.
The drivers and the grippers
The STEPFOC and Spectral Micro manuals follow firmware 108 and 107. Their tables of default settings are generated from the firmware source, with the value a new board starts with, the value after #Default, and whether #Save keeps it.
The SSG-48 and MSG gripper manuals are at version 1.1. They describe the gripper commands and link to the driver manuals for the full CAN and UART command lists.
| Manual | What changed |
|---|---|
| PAROL6 robot arm | Quick start for self-built arms, joint ranges, known issues, downloads |
| STEPFOC driver | Firmware 108; default settings taken from the firmware |
| Spectral Micro driver | Firmware 107; default settings taken from the firmware |
| SSG-48 gripper | Manual 2: release V2, data for robot integration |
| MSG gripper | Manual 1.2: release V1.2, dimension drawings, data for robot integration |
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