Crabfu likes it! Everyone wins!

The fine folks at Trossen Robotics recently sent I-Wei Huang of Crab Fu (swash bots, steam beasts, other things mere plebes like we can only dream of creating) , a Bioloid kit from Robotis. I-wei messed around with it and deemed it, for the non-engineer robot person, “fit”.

Here’s a bit from is post on the Trossen Robotics Community:

These servos have a few really nice design features. 1) there are no cords coming out of it like normal servos. You can hook them up from one to another, daisy chain them together, keeping a really clean wired robot. Each servo is labeled with it’s ID and has an LED which can light up for you to check if you are controlling the correct servo from the software. 2) Servos can be continuous. With my PutterBot, I had to physically hack into the servo to make it continuous, so that it can be used as a drive gear for the tank tracks. Robotis servos can be used as regular servos, or can rotate forever, like a wheel. 3) servos are digital, very strong and can relay info back to the system, allowing you to capture rotational values to the pc by simply rotating the servos by hand. Simply put, instead of sliding sliders around in the software, or worse yet type in values, to get servos where you want them, you just pose the robot and the software knows what rotational value each servo has.

[Thanks Trossen!]

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