I’ve started building my second hexapod, Bajdupod 996R. The 996R part of the name comes from the servos I’m using, I bought 30 Towardpro MG996R servos on Ebay many months ago. I only need 18 for this hexapod so I have some spare servos. Always a good idea, I destroyed several servos while building my […]
I got this MAG3110 magnetometer on Ebay, it came on a small break out board. This is not a sensor you want to solder by hand, it comes in a tiny 10 pin DFN package. The MAG3110 is a three axis digital magnetometer made by Freescale. The readings of a magnetometer can be used to […]
All the robots I have built so far have been powered by Lipo batteries. I chose Lipo batteries because they are very powerful (they can discharge very fast) and pretty compact for their capacity. That’s why lipo batteries are used in remote controlled scale helicopters, airplanes, cars, … Lipos don’t cost that much any more, […]