Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
by moocowduckquack on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:22PM
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Go skip diving for old printers and floppy disc drives and such like. You can get all sorts of useful steppers that way and the floppy drives in particular, if you leave the electronics attached, you can control the stepper directly with a couple of wires from a parallel port which you can trigger using something like parashell http://parashell.sourceforge.net/
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Any links to tutorials where people show how to repurpose these old steppers?
Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
by moocowduckquack on Saturday December 14, 2013 @09:24PM
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Here's a good start - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16715/Controlling-Floppy...
Merci buckets.
Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
by moocowduckquack on Sunday December 15, 2013 @02:37AM
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The arduino stepper stuff is pretty useful as well -
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Stepper?from=Tutorial.Stepper
http://arduino.cc/en/reference/stepper
http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-arduino-lesson-16-stepper...