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Men in Black

I lost my Google Pixel 6 phone. I’m on my iPhone now. I watched MIB where in the first scene there is one alien that Wil Smith and the other one stop and pull over along with a bunch of other immigrants. The aliens first name was Mikey. We had a dog named Mikey. A …

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Controlling a motor with an encoder with an Arduino

I ordered this motor: uxcell DC 12V 7RPM 50Kg.cm Self-Locking Worm Gear Motor with Encoder and Cable, High Torque Speed Reduction Motor https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078J521TG I have an Arduino Uno and a 12 Volt battery supply from 8 AA batteries from my previous project. I found a few tutorials: Tutorial for DC Gear Motor With Encoder https://www.instructables.com/id/Tutorial-for-DC-Gear-Motor-With-Encoder/ …

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Ultrasound sensor board not working

I have a problem with the octosonarx2 circuit board. https://www.tindie.com/products/arielnh56/octosonarx2-connect-16-x-hc-sr04-to-arduino/ I may have messed it up because I think the ultrasound sensors are working ok. I got a pretty cool soldering device that holds circuit boards in place and also some thinner solder. I think I may have messed up the octox2 board by hooking …

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Arduino video of turning and spinning motors

Here’s a video of my Arduino robot with some nextrox motors attached to Di servo servos. This is so it can turn and also move forward or backward. https://youtu.be/4bpG65nveMk   Here’s the code:   #include <Wire.h> #include <Adafruit_PWMServoDriver.h> //SERVO SECTION // called this way, it uses the default address 0x40 Adafruit_PWMServoDriver pwm = Adafruit_PWMServoDriver(); //for …

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Robot progress

Here are some pics of my project so far. I got some servo mounts from ServoCity and they are mounted in order to turn the other motors. They turn on carpet in tandem which is pretty cool. I am waiting on a 1/4 20 tap to connect the plexiglass to the 80 20 pieces.

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