Cigar Box Robot Arm

Code Monkey

Behold the cigar box robot arm!

This is a robot arm that I made and mounted on a cigar box. The project has a BS2 and Parallax Servo Controller mounted on a sheet of plexiglass. The BS2 is mounted with 2 solderless breadboard. There is a remote control with 4 potentiometers mounted in a small project box and connected to the main board with a wire which is routed through the bottom of the cigar box. I use a custom serial to 4-pin header to program the BS2 and I can remove the main board from the box so that it is easier to work with the components. Attached are a few pics (sorry, but the close up pic is a little blurry).

dandreae

Very nice!!!· Is it possible to add your schematic and source code?· I'm sure there are a lot of·people who will be interested in it.

Dave

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Post Edited (Dave Andreae (Parallax)) : 9/26/2005 9:11:47 PM GMT

Code Monkey

Yeah, sure. I'll post them after work one night this week.

-Marc

Code Monkey

Here's the schematic and code. The schematic I drew up last night. I think the only thing I left out is the programming circuitry on pins 1-3 which was taken directly out of the BASIC Stamp Reference Manual.

crackticus pots

cool project!·I made somthing simalar but it was made with pico servos.
any way I am curious what is the project in the back ground with the magnetic strip reader.

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Code Monkey

Thanks! The mag stripe reader is a project I made from instructions in the first issue of Make magazine. It uses a program called Stripe Snoop to decode the information through your parallel port. It was a bit frustrating to build because there were some errors in the article and I had to get a beta version of the software which I was only able to locate from the athors comments on the Make forums.

-Marc