layout: default
title: Mechanical Digitizing
nav_order: 5
mathjax: true

Mechanical Digitizers

{: .no_toc}

Table of contents

{: .no_toc .text-delta }

1. TOC {:toc}

Atomic Force Microscopy

Atomic Force Microscopy(AFM) or Scanning Probe Microscopy(SPM)

~ nanometer

Image modes

Contact mode, Tapping mode, Non-contact mode

Non-contact Mode: Oscillates above the adsorbed fluid layer on the surface during scanning

• References

  High Speed Scanning with SPM
  How does AFM work
  Nanoworld
  

• AFM Probe

AFM Probe USC-F0.3-k0.3-10, image above, $980 per 10, Budgetsensors Fabrication steps of AFM Probes

Tip wear and tip breakage in high-speed atomic force microscopes

Touch Probes

Touch Probes

Detecting contact by measuring resistance between the balls and rollers.

BLUM, The trigger signal is generated via shading of a miniature light barrier

• CNC Machine -> Workspace alignment/present setting / workpiece measurement, digitizing or inspection

Optical Optically tracked touch probes GOM

Digitizer Arms

Passive Robot Arm

DIY

Universal Robots

DIY Projects

Digitizer

Touch Probe

Building a Digitizing Probe

Large Scale

Add Dennis Shelden Dissertation content

Digital Templating

Add proliner

Survey Prisms

https://www.sumpoint.io/#services

Small Robots and Big Projects, Maria Yablonina & James Coleman, ACADIA 2021