March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
334 pages
9h 30m
English
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Making Your Robot Move and Interact with the World with Actuators
Every robot needs motors, or more generally, actuators, to move and interact with the world. This chapter will present a selection of robot actuators that are accessible, effective, and easy to integrate into Arduino-based robots.
We are going to look specifically at these types of actuators and learn how to use each of them in your Arduino project:
- RC servo motors
- DC motors
- Brushless DC motors
- Stepper motors
- Dedicated robot actuators
Technical requirements
We will explore several different motor types and drivers along with the code to make them move with your Arduino Uno. You do not need the hardware to reproduce all of these examples, but at a minimum, you should have a ...