Jumbo Servo
Jumbo Servo Motor Current
This weekend I’ve been testing the motors for the Jumbo servo. Adding on from the last test, I put in the L298 H-Bridge module, rather than test with the motor, I used two LEDs wired back to back. This allowed
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Tags: Electric Motors, Electronics, servo
Jumbo Servo Testing
Now that the Unicorn is finished I’ve been testing the jumbo servo. I soldered a socket and some sockets to a stripboard and some headers for the Itsy Bitsy. This also has some mounting points in the corners so I
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Jumbo Servo Code, Woodwork and Talk
This week saw some more progress on the jumbo servo. Code After looking at some other people’s code, the read register logic was changed slightly. For a read command rather than 3 bytes being sent just a single byte is
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A digital servo protocol
For the Jumbo Servo I’ve looking at the I2C protocol. Like all protocols there are layers to this and I’m looking at the top layer which is often call the application layer. One thing that seems to be common with
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Tags: code, protocols
Jumbo Servo
Over the weekend I’ve made some progress on the jumbo servo. So that I can tell the position of the servo I’ve made a gear to fit on to the pot shaft and connect to the output gear of the
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Tags: 3d Printing, Electronics
HackSpace Sign, Vision Kit and Jumbo Servo
HackSpace Sign This month sees another project in HackSpace Magazine, a smart glowing sign for your HackSpace made from Electro-Luminescent wires and controlled by an AdaFruit Trinket. It was a fun project to put together with 80% of the time
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
