Originally Posted By: andym
I was in Maplin's this weekend and saw this. Although the only reason I bought it was because it's a kit. I'm saving it for once we've finished moving offices and I'm back to struggling to fill the days again....

Looks quite neat as a kit to play with. I had a cheapo kit robot arm years ago and whilst it wasn't actually that useful to do anything with, it was enjoyable to build.

Looks like it is a OWI Robot Arm but with USB instead of a control panel. There are a series of videos on YouTube with somebody assembling one.

From what I can tell, the arm uses regular motors instead of servos and there isn't any feedback like optical encoders so you don't know the exact positioning of the arm. Also the drivers are unsigned so you might have issues with it.