Author: skullkey

ATtiny Robot Claw

Robot claw from Kepler (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18339) driven by an ATTiny85 The servo library is from Ilya Bruman – https://github.com/fri000/Servo8Bit   The attiny is prototyped using the TinyDuino from openhardware.co.za and comprise a distance sensor, servo motor and ATTiny 85   #include “Servo8Bit.h” Servo8Bit myservo; void setup() { pinMode(0, OUTPUT); // LED connected to pin0 pinMode(2, INPUT); // distance…

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RHoK Pretoria

  Random Hacks of Kindness June Global event took place this weekend (2-3 June). UNISA Pro bono computing (Jabu), in partnership with GTUG Pretoria (Ishmael) and House4Hack (Schalk) organised the Pretoria Event.  Humbling to see so many talented individuals willing to hack for humanity and making a difference! Jabu, organizer and instigator Solutions The event…

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Robotic Claw by Kepler in action

As part of our introduction to Arduino course, we build the knob example from the servo library.  The setup is as follows: For yesterday’s course, we had some fun and printed the Robotic Claw by Kepler from thingiverse : http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18339 It consists of the following parts: Once assembled it looks like this: Here is a video…

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