Posts Tagged ‘arduino’

• Arduino

  Date: 2008.05.17 | Category: General | Response: 0

  To control the servos that will move the robotic arm, I will use an Arduino board.

  

  This small board features several analog and digital inputs and outputs. And as stated in Arduino’s site:

  “Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.”

  So, this is just what we need for our projects

  I bought mine from BricoGeek, and in a couple of days you’ll have your new board at home.

  While the other components we’ll need for the arm arrive, I suggest having a look at the Arduino Getting Started page and learning how to program it. After that, a good read and try (as we’ll need that later) would be the tutorials about reading an analog input and setting a PWM in an output pin.

  Enjoy