
One of the best parts of my job as a makerspace
manager is teaching my students advanced
robotics tools that they once assumed were way
over their heads. This led me to develop a series
of workshops with a simple goal: demystifying
inverse kinematics! Inverse kinematics can help
take animatronics, humanoid or quadruped
robots, or robotic arm projects to the next level,
and getting started is easier than you might think!
Getting servos to move to a specific position
with a microcontroller is easy, but what if we
need the end of our robotic arm to move to a
very specific location? With a little bit of math,
we can write a program that will allo ...