Someone could make the point that when a servo is converted to continuous rotation it is little more than a gear motor. This is true for the most part. Gear motors, which usually reduce speed and increase torque, are expensive because they are larger than I want. It wasn't documented here but I also gave stepper motors a try because they would have been easy to mount and relatively easy to control. In the end I decided to use modified servo motors because they are inexpensive and they can be controlled with a single wire from a microcontroller.
Enough background.
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Two servos were selected to be turned into continuous rotation servos. Each was opened up and modified by the working techniques from 2015-08-23 (Su) including a 50kΩ potentiometer but this time the potentiometer was attached to the servo at the location where the wire exits the servo instead of the face opposite the top gear. In other words, the potentiometer is on the wire side instead of the bottom. One of the servos had trouble keeping the insulation over a wire so all three wires were replaced with salvaged 26AWG Ethernet wires. The larger Ethernet wires were more difficult to position due and the hole which normally only had to pass the power and signal wires was filed out to accommodate the large wires as well. When the regular potentiometer wires were run out the hole with the power and signal wires there was no need to expand the hole. PCB mounted potentiometers were used and had no protection on the back so moving parts were exposed. For this reason glue was not used to hold the potentiometers in place. Tuning the potentiometers was also difficult so they should be replaced with enclosed multi-turn potentiometers.
Downloadable Files:
The rest of the posts for this project have been arranged by date.
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1.
Completed projects from year 2.
Enough background.
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Two servos were selected to be turned into continuous rotation servos. Each was opened up and modified by the working techniques from 2015-08-23 (Su) including a 50kΩ potentiometer but this time the potentiometer was attached to the servo at the location where the wire exits the servo instead of the face opposite the top gear. In other words, the potentiometer is on the wire side instead of the bottom. One of the servos had trouble keeping the insulation over a wire so all three wires were replaced with salvaged 26AWG Ethernet wires. The larger Ethernet wires were more difficult to position due and the hole which normally only had to pass the power and signal wires was filed out to accommodate the large wires as well. When the regular potentiometer wires were run out the hole with the power and signal wires there was no need to expand the hole. PCB mounted potentiometers were used and had no protection on the back so moving parts were exposed. For this reason glue was not used to hold the potentiometers in place. Tuning the potentiometers was also difficult so they should be replaced with enclosed multi-turn potentiometers.
Opened servos with parts scattered
50kΩ attached to outside of servo case
Edge filed down to allow larger wires to pass through case
Downloadable Files:
- Common OpenSCAD files
- Servo footprints for OpenSCAD.
- Wrist Mounted Chording Keyboard. All STL printing Files. If you want to print.
- Parts for index, middle, and ring fingers.
- Parts for pinky finger.
- Thumbboard.
- Servo lever.
- Wrist base.
- Left-handed Wrist Mounted Chording Keyboard. All STL printing Files. If you want to print.
- Parts for index, middle, and ring fingers.
- Parts for pinky finger.
- Thumbboard.
- The servo lever and wrist base are the same as the right-handed version
- Wrist Mounted Chording Keyboard. All OpensCAD Files. If you want to make changes.
- Parts for index, middle, and ring fingers.
- Parts for pinky finger.
- Thumbboard.
- Servo lever.
- Wrist base.
- Arduino Code for wired keyboard
- Spreadsheet for chords.
Modify two servos for continuous rotation- Wrist mount
- Integrate:
- Controller
- Servos
- Enclosure for each controller
- Limit switches
- Debug
- Test
- Refine
- Repeat
- Activation switch
- Route wires
- Write instructions
- Schematic
The rest of the posts for this project have been arranged by date.
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1.
Completed projects from year 2.
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2015-08-28 (F)
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