A robotic arm graduation project, built on Piclaro
A mechatronics graduation team at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AAST) needed to go from CAD files to a working robotic arm before their thesis defense, with a student budget and no in-house workshop.
The brief
The project called for a multi-axis robotic arm: rigid structural links, a custom control board to drive the motors, and a stable base to mount everything on. Like most graduation projects, the constraints were real: a fixed defense date, a limited budget, and zero margin for parts that didn't fit together on the first try.
What Piclaro delivered
PETG arm links and joint housings: lightweight, rigid, and dimensionally accurate for repeatable assembly.
A custom motor-driver control board, fabricated and ready to populate for the arm's actuation electronics.
Acrylic mounting plates and a base enclosure, cut to precise tolerances for clean motor and bearing fits.
The outcome
All three parts of the build (printed links, PCB, and laser-cut mounts) arrived matched to spec and assembled without rework. The team demoed a fully functional arm at their defense, on schedule, and moved straight from parts in hand to a working prototype instead of spending their final weeks firefighting fabrication issues.
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