Society of Robots - Robot Forum
Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: raaymaan on November 01, 2009, 05:16:25 PM
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Hi guys, first of all thanks for looking at this post :D
I am making a snake robot using Hitec-5645MG digital servos (16 of them) that are housed in their own module. My problem is that as I am using digital servos I want to drive them from an RS-485 bus. There are plenty of USB - RS485 converters around so I will use one of those but I am unsure of how to interface each servo to the bus? Would it require a small extra circuit? ???
The robot is going to be powered from a tethered cable (hence why I'm using an RS-485 bus straight from PC as opposed to a ยต.controller or PIC) by the way and not battery operated.
This was my inspiration
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Looking forward to all the replies ;)
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wow that will be awesome! i've never seen one of those before! :o