By Bajdi on February 6, 2013
I’ve been thinking of modifying the gripper on my Rover 5. The 2 arms that close to pick up things are pretty small. I was thinking of attaching a small plate on both sides. This would make it easier to pick up things. And the plates would give me a good surface to mount a […]
Posted in Arduino, Buying parts | Tagged gripper |
By Bajdi on May 19, 2012
Playing with Dagu Rover and gripper from Bajdi on Vimeo. Finally got around to make a sketch to remote control my Rover 5 and gripper. I started with a sketch to control just the gripper with a 2 axis joystick and 2 buttons to open and close the gripper. While testing that sketch I made […]
Posted in Arduino sketches | Tagged gripper, nRF24L01, robot, servo |
By Bajdi on May 6, 2012
I had some bad luck recently, the voltage regulator on my Dagu Red back spider robot controller died 🙁 The mcu on the board still works when I power it from USB but when I use external power the regulator only gives 3V it should be 5V. So I needed a new one, the European […]
Posted in Dagu Rover 5 | Tagged gripper, robot |