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What are the signs that a servo might be broken?

I just got a kit and im not sure if its me or not but it appears one of the continuous servos might be broken. What happened first when I plugged it into the microcontroller, it made a humming sound ...
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How can I create a robot like the ez-b using a regular arduino?

I am interested in building a robot like the ez-b, sold by ez-robot.com. It comes with an SDK for Visual Studio and has direct scripting in runtime through a usb, bluetooth, wifi, irc or https ...
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Connecting More Than Six Analog Input Pins to arduino

I'm in the planning stages for a project using the Arduino Uno to control 8 distance sensors, and have run into a little road block, the Uno only has six input pins. So I'm wondering, is there any way ...
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How do I adjust objects on a conveyor belt into the proper orientation?

This is part two of my larger robot, it follows up what happens with the small rocks here: What kind of sensor do i need for knowing that something is placed at a position? Now i am taking the rocks ...
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Adding Rotary Encoders to an Electronic Wheel Chair

We have an electric wheel chair, and are looking to add a rotary encoder to each wheel. We don't want to hack the motor itself, so want to add the encoder without harming the motor-to-wheel ...
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Arduino Motor control

I'm working on a rather low budget project, and need some way to control four or more motors using one Arduino. I've looked at motor shields a little, but I have a shield on top of it already, It does ...
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Quadruped Learning Simulator

I'm currently building a robot with four legs (quadruped), 3 DOF (Degrees of Freedom) and Its been suggested here that I use a simulator to do the learning on a computer and then upload the algorithms ...
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Learning Algorithms for Walking Quadruped

I'm building a 4 legged robot (quadruped) with 3 Degrees of freedom per leg. The goal of my project is to make this robot able to learn how to walk. What learning algorithms will I need to implement ...
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Starting out advice on making robots and tinkering with microcontrollers

I'd like to start making robots and tinkering with microcontrollers. Where do I start, and what do I need? I'd like to make my own robots. I'm comfortable with programming (assembly and C) so I've ...
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Good Microcontrollers/SOCs for a Robotics Project [closed]

I am looking for a starting point for my project, preferably using popular systems (ones there is a lot of support for). I have an Arduino Uno, a Raspberry Pi, and a lot of willpower :) Anyone here ...