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tician replied to a thread Some love for the Money Pit in Rovers

Quadnought is a stack of 50x100 PCBs for PRS and/or large rovers (~80V up to ~50A). Current design moved toward PCI-e 4X connectors instead of crap...

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3 Hours Ago

tician replied to a thread Some love for the Money Pit in Rovers

There are a number of card-edge to ribbon cable connectors, but not sure any of them are for PCI-e. Just search digikey for card-edge connectors that...

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10 Hours Ago

tician replied to a thread Some love for the Money Pit in Rovers

As for connectors, maybe try PCI-Express card-edge connectors? I've been looking at them for future versions of quadnought to make quick changes...

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10 Hours Ago

tician replied to a thread Some love for the Money Pit in Rovers

I was wondering why you were making so much more work for yourself by using only a single camera. One of the many projects I've still not gotten...

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1 Week Ago

tician replied to a thread Do I need thrust washers inside snap rings? in Mechanics / Construction

So, basically, the shaft is unable to be reliably press-fit into the outer bracket and you added the snap ring(s) for insurance? Probably don't need...

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2 Weeks Ago

tician replied to a thread Project Quadbot 17 - Quadruped robot designed in Autodesk Fusion 360 in Humanoids, Walkers & Crawlers

Since it only seems to happen when the program is stopped (and the COM port released?) for a certain amount of time, it sounds more like a ...

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2 Weeks Ago

tician replied to a thread Question: Using Arduino IDE 1.8.1 and Can't See My ArbotiX-M on the Board List in Arbotix, Microcontrollers, Arduino

Updated to 0.0.2 using libraries and examples merged from arduino-1-6. Hopefully everything works correctly. Might try adding the CM-510/700 later...

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2 Weeks Ago

tician replied to a thread Question: Using Arduino IDE 1.8.1 and Can't See My ArbotiX-M on the Board List in Arbotix, Microcontrollers, Arduino

Only the libraries, examples, bootloader, and variants (modified to fix 'const static' to 'static const') were preserved from my arbotix-1.5 repo....

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2 Weeks Ago

tician replied to a thread Question: Using Arduino IDE 1.8.1 and Can't See My ArbotiX-M on the Board List in Arbotix, Microcontrollers, Arduino

So, I was rather bored this evening and decided to try doing a bit of prep work for possibly making the Teensy install via the board manager....

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2 Weeks Ago

tician replied to a thread Bioloid CM-530 serial communication does not work for me in Humanoids, Walkers & Crawlers

It has been several years since I've touched a CM-530 or the IR module, but if I remember correctly the channel of the IR module must be explicitly...

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