--- title: Making A Robot To Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks description: A maker converted a small Denso VS050 industrial robotic arm into a badminton shuttlecock-serving robot, aiming to solve the problem that badminton normally... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-robot-to-serve-some-mean-badminton-shuttlecocks-wmdce129o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making A Robot To Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks | daily.dev og:description: A maker converted a small Denso VS050 industrial robotic arm into a badminton shuttlecock-serving robot, aiming to solve the problem that badminton normally... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-robot-to-serve-some-mean-badminton-shuttlecocks-wmdce129o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wMdcE129o.png og:image:alt: Making A Robot To Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making A Robot To Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker converted a small Denso VS050 industrial robotic arm into a badminton shuttlecock-serving robot, aiming to solve the problem that badminton normally requires two players. The build uses a pneumatic grabber to pick shuttlecocks from a hopper and feed them into spinning launch wheels, controlled by an ATmega AVR microcontroller chosen over a Raspberry Pi Pico for its input-output capabilities. Extensive 3D printing and testing went into finding the right disc material (3D printed plastic with a silicone gripping strip) for consistent, well-balanced shuttlecock launches. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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