{"id":2787,"date":"2014-09-30T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:43:18","slug":"arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms and Motors and Sensors, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very proud to say that my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/For-Cheap-Robots\/\">For Cheap Robots<\/a>\u00a0project is still going strong! As some of you may recall, at the beginning of last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/index.php\/the-for-cheap-robots-series-for-cheap-robots\/\">I announced<\/a> the beginning of my For Cheap Robots series here on the Digilent blog. Since then, I&#8217;ve added several more tutorials to the list and gotten a huge amount of positive feedback.\u00a0I want to thank any and all of you who here who follow the Digilent Blog and decided to pop over to Instructables to check it out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who might not yet be familiar with For Cheap Robots, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been calling the series of tutorials on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/index\">Instructables.com<\/a>\u00a0that I&#8217;ve been creating to show how you can make a surprisingly capable robotics kit of your very own&#8211;extremely cheaply,\u00a0using parts that you find around your house!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve got a whole bunch of tutorials already.\u00a0Check them out at my For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/For-Cheap-Robots\/\">Cheap Robots collection page<\/a> on Instructables!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2787 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/motors-and-wheels-title-resized\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Motors-and-Wheels-Title-Resized-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1806\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1806'>\n\t\t\t\tIntroducing Motors and Wheels for Cheap Robots!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my\/boxbot-title-resize\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Boxbot-Title-resize-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2799\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2799'>\n\t\t\t\tThis extremely simple robot chassis requires very little modification.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my\/bugbut-title-resize\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bugbut-Title-resize-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2802\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2802'>\n\t\t\t\tBy far the most compact of the cardboard chassis, you&#8217;ll be surprised at how effective Bugbot is!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/boardbot-title-resized\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Boardbot-Title-resized-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my\/cardboard-arm-title-resize\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cardboard-Arm-Title-resize-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2796\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2796'>\n\t\t\t\tMake a dexterous robot arm out of some servos and cardboard!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my\/getting-started-with-the-dp32-title-resize\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Getting-Started-with-the-DP32-Title-resize-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Getting-Started-with-the-DP32-Title-resize-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Getting-Started-with-the-DP32-Title-resize-300x300-cropped.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2804'>\n\t\t\t\tThis one&#8217;s for everybody itching to start using the DP32 for their own projects.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my\/light-sensors-title-resize\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Light-Sensors-Title-resize-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arms-and-motors-and-sensors-oh-my\/motor-controllers-title-resize\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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As some of you may recall, at the beginning of last month, I announced the beginning of my For Cheap Robots series here on the Digilent blog. Since then, I&#8217;ve added several more tutorials to the list and gotten a huge amount of positive feedback. I want to thank any and all of you who here who follow the Digilent Blog and decided to pop over to Instructables to check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4327,1561],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4472],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-applications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cardboard-Arm-Title-resize.png","authors":[{"term_id":4472,"user_id":21,"is_guest":0,"slug":"jayweeks","display_name":"Jay Weeks","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9032c373b20f91ecd2c2ebd3b378c3da3e5f6e50cf0d516941ba1dafaf29b73?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}