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Chris Annin
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RE: AR3/4 Not Working in Closed Loop

The encoders being just incremental - I have the code in the sketch monitor the encoders throughout a commanded move and verify that the commanded mot...

2 months ago
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RE: Kinematics Diagram

Hello, yes the robots DH parameter's are on line 249 in the sketch: float DHparams[6][4] = { { 0, 0, 169.77, 0 }, { -90, -90, 0, 64.2 }, {...

2 months ago
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RE: Teensy Is at 3.3v logic. Stepper controller is at 5v??

@joseph-puzzo I think you'll need to run the AR4 sketch with -neg pulse. Keep me posted if you have any issues.

2 months ago
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RE: Teensy Is at 3.3v logic. Stepper controller is at 5v??

The Stepperonline drivers (DM542T and the 320) do operate at 3.3v they are supposed to be updating the manual to show that. I assume you are running D...

2 months ago
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RE: Stepper Control Driver Pins Neg instead of Pos

The drivers I was using in the earlier versions of the AR2 did not work with PNP or common cathode so the original architecture was setup for an open ...

2 months ago
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RE: Base mechanism

The J1 housing contains (2) 32009 taper roller bearings that are opposed, the J1 platform has set screws that set the tension (red arrows) against the...

2 months ago
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RE: Why are the limit switches not set up to use pullup?

The pull-up resistors weren't strong enough to be reliable over a 5 ft ethernet cable, so I opted to do three wires and pull it to ground when the swi...

2 months ago
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RE: Arduino Mega on AR4

Yes you can use the Mega code, I just switched to the nano on the AR4 because it was lower cost, took up less space and has more readily available ter...

2 months ago
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RE: Annin Robotics inscriptions & robot build with CNC-ed plastic parts

@midnightoilburner This is awesome. thanks for sharing!

2 months ago
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RE: Annin Robotics inscriptions & robot build with CNC-ed plastic parts

Wow, that looks awesome. <correction the font was "Latin">. Please feel free to share any stl or cam files here on the forum or let me know what...

2 months ago
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RE: Ordering Individual Parts from the Aluminum Parts Kit

Hello, just replied to your email, I do have some stock on those right now. Thank you.

2 months ago
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RE: J4 is the only joint that moves (AR3) Teensy 4.1

@dan I'm glad its resolved. You're not the first, I to have spent countless hours (and beer) trying to solve problems due to issues I assumed to be in...

2 months ago
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RE: J4 is the only joint that moves (AR3) Teensy 4.1

@dan when you said "12v/5v power supply for the teensy (5v)" are you using an external power supply for the teensy? I have never powered it from an e...

2 months ago
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RE: J4 is the only joint that moves (AR3) Teensy 4.1

Ok, that's typically the first thing I look at when only the DM320 drive is working. Did you have this robot operational previously with the AR3 softw...

2 months ago
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RE: J4 is the only joint that moves (AR3) Teensy 4.1

have you set the DM542 driver input level from 24v to 5v ?  J4-is-the-only-joint-that-moves-AR3-Teensy-4.1-.avif

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