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  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2015-06-11 16:48
    I've seen servos like the first two at other online stores, and I hate to admit it, but how on Earth do you use them? They don't seem to have any mounting tabs and they don't show any attachments either. With the dynamixel servos they always show all the brackets and do-hickies to use them.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2015-06-11 17:03
    You have two choices, depending on your sense of urgency and loyalty. You can either:

    1) Google "wingless servo", or

    2) Wait for my servo article in the next (duh) SERVO magazine.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2015-06-11 17:21
    Seeing as it's Walmart, I imagine duct tape will git 'er done!
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2015-06-11 17:21
    Meh. Amazon has carried these for a while, and with a much better discount direct from the importer.

    The specs for the DR-3006 notes: "Working frequence:1520μs / 333hz" Note the latter value, which I don't think is a typo. Think arm-wrestling bots. Think a lot of current from your batts.

    Do the Actobotics aluminum C-frame pieces fit the AR-1202MG?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2015-06-11 18:12
    Do the Actobotics aluminum C-frame pieces fit the AR-1202MG?

    THAT is a great question for someone who knows.

    See what I did there?

    Jeepers, it's useless replies like this that got me to 14K posts.
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2015-06-11 18:47
    erco wrote: »
    Who knew?

    Not I! I look forward to the article erco!
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,451
    edited 2015-06-11 18:56
    Yeah I don't think these are going to show up at the Covington LA store any time soon. This is just the WAL trying to catch up to Amazon in the "we sell EVERYTHING category."

    I'll be impressed, though, when they are selling diamond lapidary saw blades. I just needed two and Amazon undersold the usual traditional sources by about 40%. That's a pretty specialty item and they beat the prices of everyone in the actual lapidary equipment industry by a beat-down.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2015-06-11 20:55
    erco wrote: »
    THAT is a great question for someone who knows.

    Well it ain't me. Don't have those nice C-brackets from Acto, and don't have those servos. Always wanted to try them (actually both), though.

    Martin, without Googling, here's a hint: visualize the servo as the thing that moves.
  • frank freedmanfrank freedman Posts: 1,983
    edited 2015-06-11 22:07
    mindrobots wrote: »
    Seeing as it's Walmart, I imagine duct tape will git 'er done!

    Nah, J B Weld or (worked for a fairly thrashed iPad screen replacement) J B Quick. Oh, and yep it sets up right fast too.....
  • MrBi11MrBi11 Posts: 117
    edited 2015-06-13 17:54
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2015-06-14 10:10
    localroger wrote: »
    .. This is just the WAL trying to catch up to Amazon in the "we sell EVERYTHING category."

    Walmart DID say they want to be the place for America's technology needs. Kind of cool.
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2015-06-14 13:59
    While we are on the subject of large retailers trying to provide EVERYTHING, I was surprised to find motors, pulleys, battery holders, etc. in a drawer in the hardware section of Lowe's. It was all but indistinguishable from a drawer at RS. Still, I don't expect to find a drawer of MOSFETs and BJTs any time soon.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2015-06-14 14:11
    MrBi11 wrote: »

    Great find! Is this the first Parallax item sold by Walmart?
  • MrBi11MrBi11 Posts: 117
    edited 2015-06-14 15:19
    I have no Idea erco, I was looking for a supplier for some industrial control stuff one day and it turned up on a walmart page.

    I think maybe their site just does it's own search on anything you request, finds a supplier and if you order it they buy it for you (I don't know for sure, but it seems they have ANYTHING you search for)
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