{"id":14835,"date":"2016-06-02T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14835"},"modified":"2016-06-02T12:51:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:51:43","slug":"controlling-a-robot-arm-with-analog-sliders-and-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14835","title":{"rendered":"Controlling a robot arm with analog sliders and a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Raspberry-Pi-Robot-Arm-2-777x437.png?resize=560%2C315\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has created a brilliant showpiece for Jams and other events. He&#8217;s taken a robot arm controlled by 6 servos and hooked it up to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abelectronics.co.uk\/p\/72\/Servo-PWM-Pi-Zero\" target=\"_blank\">ABelectronics servo controller board<\/a>. He added a NiMH battery\u00a0to power it and a step-down converter to reduce the voltage. Then the really clever part: he added 6 slider potentiometers to control the servos and fastened it all to a base. A clever bit of coding, including help from our Pi community, enabled the arm to move smoothly. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/2016\/05\/robot-arm.html\" target=\"_blank\">read a lot more about how he did it on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has created a brilliant showpiece for Jams and other events. He&#8217;s taken a robot arm controlled by 6 servos and hooked it up to an ABelectronics servo controller board. He added a NiMH battery\u00a0to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14835\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,20,39,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-gpio-boards","category-programming","category-robotics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Controlling a robot arm with analog sliders and a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14835\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Controlling a robot arm with analog sliders and a Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has created a brilliant showpiece for Jams and other events. 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