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Week 9 (session 3)

A project log for Robotic arm (again)

This is going to be a robotic arm controlled by a Rasberry pi and micropython.

sylvainSylvain 03/05/2025 at 13:520 Comments

Now that I have some basis to control servos with Python I need to work on the structure of the arm. Joon-Ho showed me a video of a robotic arm controlled by Arduino and an app, so I can take this project and upgrade it. He gave me the STEP files to print the parts of the arm.

The first thing I did was to watch the video several times to see how it works and on what will I have to work on.

My first issue is to control the servos with Python rather than Arduino. Then I have to adapt the basis to fit a Raspberry PI inside because with a terminal adapter it bigger than an Arduino card.

I then brought home some cardboard to create a first shitty version of a robotic arm with servos controlled by Python. I was able to control 2 part of the arm just as the clamp even if it doesn't work properly.

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