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I too would absolutely love to know how you can get involved with robotics as a hobby without spending and arm and a leg (assuming I have access to a workshop e
by malandrew 13y ago
I too would absolutely love to know how you can get involved with robotics as a hobby without spending and arm and a leg (assuming I have access to a workshop equipment like at TechShop or NoiseBridge).
- m_ke 13y agoGet a kinetic, put some wheels on it and then get ROS/PCL running on it.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoGo skip diving for old printers and floppy disc drives and such like. You can get all sorts of useful steppers that way and the floppy drives in particular, if you leave the electronics attached, you can control the stepper directly with a couple of wires from a parallel port which you can trigger using something like parashell http://parashell.sourceforge.net/ http://parashell.sourceforge.net/
- malandrew 13y agoAny links to tutorials where people show how to repurpose these old steppers?
- moocowduckquack 13y agoHere's a good start - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16715/Controlling-Floppy-Drive-Stepper-Motor-via-Paralle http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16715/Controlling-Floppy...
- malandrew 13y agoMerci buckets.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoThe arduino stepper stuff is pretty useful as well - http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Stepper?from=Tutorial.Stepper http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Stepper?from=Tutorial.Stepper http://arduino.cc/en/reference/stepper http://arduino.cc/en/reference/stepper http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-arduino-lesson-16-stepper-motors/ http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-arduino-lesson-16-stepper...