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Welcome to the DeltaZ Wiki! This is were you will learn how to acquire, setup, build, and operate your DeltaZ.

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Introduction

There are currently 6 main checkpoints when learning with DeltaZ. As with any manipulator, you must first determine a need for a manipulator (in this case, the need is that you want to learn about manipulators via DeltaZ) and acquire its materials. Next, you will need to build your robot and wire it up. Then, you must setup the software for the robot. In many cases, you will have the brains of the robot running a program on the robot itself. In order to tap into what the robot is seeing, thinking and doing, and to communicate with it, roboticists develop GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) for the user. After you have setup your software, you will run simple tests to make sure everything is functioning as expected and make tweaks as needed. Once you become confident in how your robot moves, where it can move to, and the math behind its motion, you can then place your robot in a world, or environment, for your robot to alter. In factories, a robot's world is a production line where a robot has been strategically placed to complete repetitive tasks quickly and with precision. In a hospitals, a manipulator's environment may be a patient's body where a surgeon can make minimally invasive incisions with the robot. A good roboticist will not only position the robot effectively in its world, but he or she will design effective tools for the robot to interact with the environment with. In order to add more functionality and intelligence into a manipulator, the robot needs to receive meaningful information from its environment from sensors.

If all of this sounds interesting to you, then you are in the right place. The following six sections will lead you to pages where you can dive into the realm of manipulators.

Table of Contents

1. Materials
2. Building
3. Setup
4. Moving
5. Manipulation
6. Sensing

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