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Subject: 
Re: hacking servo motors
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:58:24 GMT
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glivick@SAYNOTOSPAMpacbell.net
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It's just an ordinary motor after you modify it to take out the feedback device,
and you have no idea of where it is pointing at any time.  Maybe you could have
the robot turn in a circle to find the beacon?  Or use a small stepper motor?  You
can drive a bipolar stepper right off one of the L293D motor ports.  If you don't
like either of those ideas, how about mounting two servo motors, one on top of the
other, with your sensors on top of the two.  That way you can get nearly 360° of
rotation.

Good luck!

Gary Livick

raju kammela wrote:

Hi,
   I am trying to implement a auto recharge system for my robot. i am using a
homming beacon on the recharging station and whenever myrobot is out of charge
it has to find the that beacon. to scan the area i need to use the sero motor.
i never used a servo motor for continuous rotation. and i never opened one to
see the pot arrangement. so my question is if we modify the servo for continous
rotation is it still going work as a sero or then it's just a ordanary motor.
all i need is to get 360 deg of rotation for my scan.  i am waiting for this
part of my design to complete.  please help with this question.

thanks in advance.

raj



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  Re: hacking servo motors
 
(...) Hi all, why so complicated ? Use a pair of gears to double the turn ability. We had the same problem (to find a beacon) and succesfully build it. I guess you don't have to be 1 degree accurate, or ?? I think 2 degrees will work. (You don't (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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  hacking servo motors
 
Hi, I am trying to implement a auto recharge system for my robot. i am using a homming beacon on the recharging station and whenever myrobot is out of charge it has to find the that beacon. to scan the area i need to use the sero motor. i never used (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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