My company is getting rid of an older Fanuc welding robot. I operated it a little, a long time ago, and could teach points but that was the extent of my experience with it. The arm is sound, but the control "had smoke coming out of it the day they took it down and it would barely weld."
I could buy it for a price low enough to just play with, on my own, to learn more about robotics and test some automation ideas myself, but I'm curious if I can move to a newer/cheaper/easier/non-fanuc control? Am I right in my thinking that the robot is just servos and encoders, and telling it where to go and when to go there, should be relatively simple to retrofit?
I could buy it for a price low enough to just play with, on my own, to learn more about robotics and test some automation ideas myself, but I'm curious if I can move to a newer/cheaper/easier/non-fanuc control? Am I right in my thinking that the robot is just servos and encoders, and telling it where to go and when to go there, should be relatively simple to retrofit?