Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Awesome Robot Articles Index

Very Nerdy!

http://www.imagesco.com/articles/roboticsart.html

All about SERVOS







OK Folks....

The problem with Robot servos is that they are not simple things... nor are they cheap. I have ordered a few dozen TOWER MG996R servos, but they pale in comparison to the DYNAMIXEL servos found here: http://support.robotis.com/en/


Yopu can make robots with the cheaper (but still much better than standard servos) TOWER MG996R servos, like this one here, but the results are known to be less than precise.

The problem with the DYNAMIXEL servos is that they run around $45 at the very cheapest. OUCH.

An excellent analysis (a summing up if you will) of the servos in comparison to each other can be found here. Good old Trossen Robotics.


These are ROBOT GOLD


Saturday, January 25, 2014

iPhone Communication from Arduino/Pi

http://learn.adafruit.com/pibeacon-ibeacon-with-a-raspberry-pi

Ok, so a friend (Thanks Tom) mentioned that he wanted to know about more (or wanted me to know more) about linking up the Arduino with iPhone control, and etc....

Sunday, January 19, 2014

RF Module Communicators

Picked up a few pairs of these from China. Pretty good tutorial here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/RF-315433-MHz-Transmitter-receiver-Module-and-Ardu/


Saturday, January 11, 2014