1. Overview

Dobot Magician is a multifuctional desktop robotic arm for practical training education, supporting teaching and playback, blockly graphic programming, script, etc. Installed with different end-effectors, Dobot Magician can realize interesting functions such as 3D printing, laser engraving, writing and drawing. It also supports secondary development by various extensible I/O interfaces, which really makes your creativity and imagination increase without any limitation.

2. Appearance and Constitute

Dobot Magician consists of Abase, Rear Arm, Forearm, and end-effector, etc. Figure 3.1 shows the appearance.

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3. Working Principle

This topic describes the workspace, principle, size and technical specifications of Dobot Magician.

3.1 Workspace

Figure 3.2 and Figure 3.3 shows the workspace.

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Figure 3.2 Workspace of Dobot Magician (1)

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Figure 3.3 Workspace of Dobot Magician (2)

3.2 Coordinate System

Dobot Magician has two types of coordinate system, the joint one and the Cartesian one, as shown in Figure 3.4 and Figure 3.5 respectively

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Figure 3.4 Joint coordinate system

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Figure 3.5 Cartesian coordinate system