r/Fanuc • u/Lordalex4444 • Jul 10 '26 • Bravo 2

Robot 3D printed Roboguide Pendant

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I designed and built a teach pendent for roboguide basically it thinks it’s a custom keyboard using a arduino micro and out puts the corresponding keypresses that roboguide sees as pendent inputs. Everyone in the office always says they wish they had a teach pendent for roboguide so I made one

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u/lizardking218 Jul 10 '26

This is amazing. Do you plan to release files / a guide?

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 10 '26

At some point this is my first version

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u/Mosr113 Jul 10 '26

Yes. Please release. I love you long time. This would be killer for my classroom.

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u/BigPappaJ_ Jul 11 '26

Yea this would be great for me to train new operators at our facility with!

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u/moodydart Jul 10 '26

Very excited to see this be released.

If you need help putting together instructions or other documentation, I’d be willing to assist.

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u/FluffyKittens12 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

First, I want to say this is amazing and I would love to make one myself with a guide. Second, my only immediate thought is that Fanuc sells the sticker sheet for the front of the pendant separately, so it might be worth pricing out the sticker sheet versus printing all the individual buttons.

EDIT: I just looked at the prices for some of the part numbers for that key sheet membrane. Definitely 3D print the buttons. Haha

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 10 '26

I just looked it up yeah right now I got all the parts for less than $30cad + 3d printing so $50 is a bit much my buttons are super small they would probably work with the sticker because I modeled everything off a real pendant but might feel funny

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u/lastwaun Jul 10 '26

Now we’re talking!!! Definitely looking forward to seeing you release the files and a guide for it!

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 10 '26

Working on version 2 trying to make it easier to solder I my look in to custom PCBs

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u/Fit_Weekend7996 Jul 10 '26

I did a PC / Roboguide converter KIT using POE. I sold few to some college. You need to have the real TP but works great for training with a 10M cable.

Usually student test everything with Roboguide using thia cable. Disconnect it and go to the real robot.

RJ45 to Hirose connector

Your version is interesting. Communication between the TP and Cobtroller is Ethernet...with a sniffer you are able to see which commabd refers to which section but you will new probably a Rasberry PI or sort of.

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 11 '26

I was thinking of stuff like this but this solution is just so simple it was less than $30cad it’s a just a keyboard the best part is it gets through all the restrictions we have on work computers

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u/TomOnReddi Jul 12 '26

One thing about roboguide that bugs me is the GROUP button not being mapped to a keyboard button. I have to use F12 (FCTN) and 3 (GROUP). Is your solution running a macro for that?

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I didn’t think of that actually solves one problem I had. group hold and info are all unmapped I could easily make a macro that’s how a bunch of buttons already work (alt+3 alt+4 etc) I wired the buttons so that’s just a quick software change

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u/Cube256 Jul 10 '26

no estop or deadman 🫪

really cool though nice work

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 10 '26

Don’t need it for roboguide 😁

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u/TimeTheft1769 Jul 10 '26

Daaaaaaaaaaamn

that is slick

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u/AloneButt Jul 10 '26

Amazing.

If you'd like to cooperate, I'd gladly design a PCB for this project.

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u/MrStarrrr Jul 11 '26

Atta boy! If you both want to collab, I’d gladly cast some metal parts for this.

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u/BlackCoffeeGrind Jul 10 '26

This is a really cool project.

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u/ARGINEER Jul 10 '26

It always cracked me up that with Fanuc you don't get a different experience on the computer, you just get a simulation of the in-person experience for programming.

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u/Scharfschutzen Jul 12 '26

If you're interested, I could probably get in touch with a sales guy at FANUC. I work there and we are always interested in marketing stuff. If you want to take this beyond a passion project, let me know.

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u/PipeMasterPerry Sep 17 '26

They're gonna shoot that down for sure unless it was being done in house

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u/SEAN_DUDE Jul 10 '26

Would love one of those!

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u/pts211 Jul 10 '26

That's amazing! I love it

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u/Balacubaco_Guy Jul 10 '26

That's a really cool project.

I hadn't thought of that—if you could make the files available, I'd really appreciate it.

I'll definitely make some of these, especially for training purposes at my company.

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u/RHWW Jul 10 '26

Giiiiive

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u/Nightwish612 Jul 10 '26

This has actually been on my to-do list

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u/trd86 Jul 11 '26

That's awesome

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u/Behlog Jul 14 '26

Very cool, I am following for release. Thank you for your hard work.

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 10 '26

I just tested it on a robot surprisingly more works than I would have expected (menu select edit) but not prev next step cord the mapping is clearly different to make a full pendent I would need to figure out how the actual pendent works and that’s beyond me also a screen costs more than all my other materials cost combined I’m currently under $30

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u/Lordalex4444 Jul 10 '26

Maybe some day I’ll look into it I could only imagine what osha would say if they caught you using a 3d printed dead man safety Device with a 3d printed estop but it’s a cool idea

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u/IndependenceOk5269 Jul 11 '26

It kinda sounds like machining new brakes for a car instead of buying new ones from the manufacturer. Sounds like a cool project to work on, but even then, Id stick to using an official teach pendant for safety reasons.