Hackaday (unofficial) August 23, 2022 9:00am Knife Throwing Machine Gets the Spin Just Right #weaponshacks #knife #lidar #servomotors #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Knife Throwing Machine Gets The Spin Just Right Despite how it might appear in bad action movies, throwing a knife and making it stick in a target is no easy feat. Taking inspiration from the aforementioned movies, [Quint] and his son built a ma…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 4, 2022 6:00am Servo Surgery Teaches Us DIY Encoder Implants #robotshacks #closedloopservomotors #digitalservo #ds3225 #hobbyservo #opticalencoder #robotarm #roboticarm #servocontrol #servodriver #servomotor #servomotors #servos #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Servo Surgery Teaches Us DIY Encoder Implants Today, we shall talk about how [Adam Bäckström] took a DS3225 servo and rebuilt it to improve its accuracy, then built a high-precision robot arm with those modified servos to show just how much of…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 11, 2021 9:00am A Whole Lot of Stepper Motors Make the Most Graceful 7-Segment Displays #clockhacks #7segment #7segmentdisplay #charliesheen #mechanicaldisplay #servo #servomotors #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Whole Lot Of Stepper Motors Make The Most Graceful 7-Segment Displays Over the years we’ve seen many takes on the 7-segment display. Among the most interesting are the mechanical versions of what is most often an LED-based item. This week’s offering is fr…