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Monitoring power consumption with the ACS715
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This blog post by Steve Spence discusses using an ACS715 Current Sensor Carrier to monitor the current consumption of a ham radio when in emergency communication mode.
Robotic Arm
This laser-cut robotic arm is controlled by a Mini Maestro servo controller. By Szymon Kobalczyk, April 2012.
Balancing Robot
This balancing robot by Kristian Lauszus uses two 37D metal gearmotors with encoders that are mounted with gearmotor brackets and driven with a dual VNH2SP30 motor driver carrier.
Prometheus - a CNC Router Project
This CNC router features four of our A4988 stepper motor driver carriers. You can find more videos and information in this CNCzone forum post.
Ten years in Las Vegas
Starting with the move from our dorm to an apartment in Watertown, Massachusetts, Pololu has moved or expanded ten times. The most significant was our move to Las Vegas, which represented a commitment to doing this thing for real. This past Sunday was the 10-year anniversary of arriving in Las Vegas, so I figured I should commemorate it by putting up some old pictures. Continued…
Tabletop Robotics 3pi Projects
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Tabletop Robotics is a site with a series of interesting, customer-created open source projects for the 3pi robot, including barcode reading, grid navigation, and remote control.
Power off from within an Arduino sketch using the Pololu power switch
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This Instructable demonstrates how to cut power to an Arduino from within a sketch using a Pololu pushbutton power switch.
Micro Maestro Delta Robot
A Micro Maestro and three servos power this well-constructed delta robot.
Thoughts on Open-Source Hardware
As open-source hardware (OSHW) has become more prominent over the past five years or so, I have heard questions about where I or Pololu stand on the subject. Most recently, I got into a bit of a discussion with Phillip Torrone of Make and Adafruit on one of his blog posts, and his questions and subsequent interview pushed me to try to organize some of my thoughts about OSHW. Because there are many aspects to OSHW, I don’t have a simple conclusion like, “It’s great!” or “It’s the future!” or “Pololu will never release an OSHW product.”. I am skeptical of some of the claims by OSHW proponents and of the significance of the more organized aspects of the OSHW movement. However, what is going on is very significant to me because it affects Pololu’s business and involves issues I care about a lot, such as freedom, creating things, and education. Continued…
Wixel as Wireless USB for Propeller Chip
This video by Martin Heermance shows how you can use a Wixel to to wirelessly program a Parallax Propeller microcontroller. For more information see this forum thread.