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RE: Encoders start counting automatically when powering the motor

As per @Ray Carberry 's suggestion, adding ceramic caps on all the encoder wires to ground solved the issue for me. I had 12x 0.1uF ceramic caps spare...

2 months ago
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RE: AR4MK2 Individual Motors on Stepperonline

No the power supply isn't listed on stepper online unfortunately. I got a Mean Well LRS-350-24 on amazon instead:

2 months ago
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RE: AR4MK2 Individual Motors on Stepperonline

I see the motors are now listed individually on stepper online. Thanks Chris! Here's the direct links for anyone that comes across this post: ...

2 months ago
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RE: AR4MK2 Individual Motors on Stepperonline

@chris-annin Thanks Chris, that would be awesome! Not the end of the world if they can't/won't, and I appreciate that this is all open source and you'...

2 months ago
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RE: ROS 2 Driver for AR4 Now Available

@ycheng517 I’ll be testing this out this weekend! Get ready for some pull requests with OpenCV/Camera functionality in the coming weeks too :)

3 months ago
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RE: ROS 2 Driver for AR4 Now Available

@ycheng517 So I've had a chance to get ros2 installed and try out the ar4_ros_driver repo on my AR4-MK2. Good news! The initial calibration we...

3 months ago
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RE: AI powered robotic arm assistant using AR4

This is super cool! Good work! I've been experimenting with using voice command and openai to control the arm - it's interesting to see the approach y...

3 months ago
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