Could anyone point me towards a good source robotics information?

>>1214496
>Mechanical aspect of arms, joints etc
like what?
get a maths textbook, read about forces and moments. figure out what you want to lift, check tables of materials for strengths per section to figure out what your building it out of.

You should learn about DH parameters if you are going to be creating the arm controller yourself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denavit%E2%80%93Hartenberg_parameters

>>1214498
Someone has already done the math and experiments on these things. Why re-invent the wheel?

>>1214510
Because you absolute fucking nork it depends what you want to do.
Do you want to lift something heavy? Do you want to do it really quickly? Do you want to move something a large distance? Do you want to move something really really really tiny?
Do you want to pick up round things or square things, hard things or soft things.
Etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.
I'll tell you what once you figure out what you want let us all know and as a team we will find a ready made arm that does what you want for you then youth can contact the manufacturer and ask for the plans, I'm sure they will just hand then to you no questions asked.
Otherwise if you want an open source arm to copy the design of WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING GOOGLE IT YOU DENSE CUNT.

>>1214504
Op said he doesn't need help with the controller so presumably he can conjure inverse kinematics in his sleep. Lets not patronise him anon clearly he is a genius.

>>1214517
>>1214516
Wow you guys are pathetic

>>1214518
Come on op play the ball not the man

>>1214517
This.

I've done this in school. You wanna mathematically setup how a robot moves this is how you do it. From here you can figure out the rest of the details such as:

>>1214516


There really is no copy and paste in this field. More about either finding a good fit with a pre-existing model or you're rolling your own. The first thing you need to understand before math or what exists is your working envelope and your reachable envelope.

With respect to OPS original question, take your pick, it's all the same and just as useful/useless depending on your perspective.

https://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Robotics-Mechanics-Control-3rd/dp/0201543613#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1500846942233

Exploded diagrams schematics from a robot user manual is the next best thing only to taking one apart yourself

Start googling ; Arduino, hackaday(dot)io, thingiverse, & robotic arm project.