You’re looking to use your old printer control board to DIY a Makelangelo robot but the firmware does not already support your board. No two boards have quite the same features or pin settings. Ok! Here’s how to make it work for you and everyone after you.
Robot Overlord has been in heavy development since July of 2019. Now after 816 commits I believe it’s ready.
The contextual menus for objects in the scene has been completely overhauled to be consistent. The networking has added an SSH system. The kinematics now use Gradient Descent. And there’s so much more!
The AS5147 magnetic absolute rotation sensor is perfect for measuring robot joint angles. The key here is absolute! A relative rotation sensor like an encoder is very cheap but when you need to always totally unquestionably need to know where your thing is at then you need absolute sensing. In this post I’m going to show you my test setup, wiring, and code so you can get started easy peasy.
