I’ve been playing with a 5″ TFT touch screen. I bought the TFT a while ago and quickly came to the conclusion that an adaptor shield is the best solution to connect it to an Arduino. These touch screen TFT’s use a lot of pins. Another issue is that the controller chip for the TFT […]
When I saw the offer on letsmakerobots.com to buy a new robot kit from Dagu at a special price I didn’t hesitate… Dagu’s new robot kit is the “service droid”. It’s a kit that can be mounted on the popular Rover 5 platform. The service droid is made from hundreds of laser cut acrylic parts. […]
I’ve been rewriting the remote control code for my Dagu Rover 5. I wanted to integrate my encoder code in to my remote control sketch. In my old code I would directly scale the joystick values to a pwm value. Now I scale the joystick values to the time between encoder pulses. This is the […]
Was snowed in today so I got to play with my hexapod all day I’ve changed the way I move the servos. The code now moves the servos in little steps. Makes the hexapod walk a lot smoother. I’ve added a second micro controller, an ATmega328 with a wireless nRF24L01 module. I have quite a […]
