
Robot Magic: Beginner Robotics for the Maker and Magician 1
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The Tools
to Elevate
What You
Create
The “brains” of most of my signature robotic magic routines
is the Arduino UNO, a credit card sized microcontroller
board that you can easily program to control all kinds of
electronic components. In other words, the Arduino can
help you make things move! Without any understanding of
complicated electronics, you can upload prewritten code
to the board and control, for example, a small servomotor.
Through the Arduino, you can tell the servo to turn to a
certain position, and you can tell it when to do so. You can
ask the servo to stay still for ...