February 1, 2026
Two Degree-of-Freedom Robotic Arm
My First Year Engineering Group Design Project
In my first year, I designed and built a two degree-of-freedom robotic arm controlled by C++ code running on an Arduino Uno. On the surface, it was a fairly typical introductory design project: design a mechanism, manufacture it, assemble it, and make it move between specified coordinates.
In reality, it became my first lesson in how intelligent control systems can compensate for imperfect hardware.