Im helping a local high school build a 6 channel robot arm, we are using all analog Hitech model grade servos. Currently we dissected a JR hobby airplane transmitter and receiver with the stock JR potentiometers replaced with Actobotics 5K potentiometers. We are operating the arm manually and we have no need for wireless operation.
I’m wondering if this board: robotshop.com/en/pwm-servo-d … i-hat.html would work with our 5K resistance potentiometers and analog PWM hobby servos without any programing. Myself or the students are not ready to get into programing at this stage.
If there are other options please let me know your ideas. Myself and the students appreciate any help.
Ok thank you for the help. Have you looked inside the 6ch slider to see if it will be easy to remove the connection of the pots and wire in our 5K pots?
Ideally you would not remove the sliders and simply use them as is.
If rotary knobs are required, the ones we offer mostly have single knobs and a few have two: robotshop.com/en/servo-controllers.html
Saving the potentiometers you have really should not be a priority.
Thank you. I need 6 channels and I want to control the arm with a telemetry like armature using the potentiometer I have because of their uniform bolt pattern on to existing hardware we have here from ServoCity. I would use different potentiometers as long as they could be removed from the controller and wired in.
The servo controller page confuses me as a novice which is why I’m posting here. Sounds like there is no good option for me that includes 6 channels or maybe you can direct me to a ingle or double and I could use a couple of them.
Are you prepared to do a little programming? If so, then you might consider: robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion- … oller.html
You can connect potentiometers directly, as well as servos.
You would need to use the Arduino servo library and do a little bit of programming, but it’s what we would suggest for this: youtu.be/F-5-ymKTiMU?t=72
