MANOI’s Last Tune-up (Servos)

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The servo extension cables from RobotShop USA arrived sometime! I’m not sure exactly when, because I don’t check my snail mail every day… heh!

Oh yeah… if RobotShop reads my blog… thank you for sending all of the ridiculous amount of styrofoam squiggles. You could have used an insulated envelope, but no… squiggles! Hahahaha =)

Hopefully this will be MANOI’s last tune-up! Then I will have to start thinking about the battery… RoboGames is quickly approaching!! (Which means I’ll also have to start thinking about fundraising as well! (it won’t be too bad, about 1/2 the price of the Stanford trip I wager!))

One of the main flaws of MANOI was all of there servo connections… it just was not good!

The way I originally laid out the board was that one side would be for the legs, one side would be for the arms. I am still keeping it this way. This is what it looked like after the leg side was redone:

This is the arm side:

All in all, much more neat. I eliminated the clumsy extension cables that I had before. Look at how much nicer it is!

I am extremely pleased. I used one of the servo extensions for RX and Ground for the SSC-32. This way they won’t keep falling out and bending pins.

In my opinion, there is even room for an Arduino Pro Mini in there now, and MANOI would have hardly any bulk on its back. I did not test the servos yet, nor did I test the skating motions. (I had to go to class) I’m interested to see how the center of gravity changed.

Maybe putting an Arduino pro mini in there would be a good idea… and just have right-angle headers on it, with jumpers going to the wave shield. I think that would be efficient! Hmm!! Exciting!

Posted in: MANOI, Projects, Robot.
Tags: Arduino, arduino pro mini, MANOI, Robot, RobotShop, servo, servo connections, SSC-32, USA

One Response to “MANOI’s Last Tune-up (Servos)”

1. Ferosh Jacob Says:
   March 28th, 2009 at 1:33 PM

   Great to see something like this , keep your interest

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