Content for PCA9685

Mechanical Seven Segment Display Clock

“A couple of months ago I built a two digit mechanical 7 segment display which I turned into a countdown timer. It came out quite well and a number of people suggested doubling up on the display to make a …

Tempestas II, A Clock style Barometer

“A Clock style barometer, that displays the current weather with different slides, driven by an arduino, 5 servos a PCA9685 and a bmp280. A Clock style barometer, that displays the current weather with different slides, driven by an Arduino Nano …

Duh-Vinci Surgical Robot

“There is no good reason for this to exist. There is however a festering reason. A couple of years ago, LVL1 Hackerspace hosted a Hack-a-thon for useless and/or impractical devices. With only 48 hours, this was outside the scope …

16 Channel Servo Tester With Arduino and 3D Printing

“Pretty much every project I’ve done just lately has required me to test out some servos and experiment with their positions before they go into the assembly. I usually make a quick servo tester on a breadboard and use …

Intellisaurus

“Intellisaurus is intended for many skill levels. The easy to follow instructions allow someone with a modest skill level to assemble the robot and have it walking in a matter of hours. There is no soldering or programming required to …

DIY Compact 3D Printed Animatronic Eye Mechanism

“My previous instructable was an attempt to make an eye mechanism that was as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, but in this project I wanted to design something that was more of a middle-ground between accessibility …

Word Clock Controlled by 114 Servos

“What has 114 LEDs and is always running? As you may know the answer is a word clock. What has 114 LEDs + 114 servos and is always moving? The answer is this servo controlled word clock. For this project I …

FPGA/SoC Controlled Robot Arm

“Robotics are at the leading edge of Industry 4.0, AI and the Edge revolution. Let’s look at how we can create an FPGA-controlled robot arm. Story Introduction Robotics are at the forefront of the Industry 4.0 …

RGB Thermometer Using PICO

“That was the final result of our effort today. It is a thermometer that will let you know how warm it is in your room, by using an RGB LED strip placed in an acrylic container, that is connected to …

ESP8266 WIFI AP Controlled Quadruped Robot

“This is tutorial to make a 12 DOF or four leg (quadruped) robot using SG90 servo with servo driver and it can be controlled using WIFI Web server via smartphone browser Total cost for this project is around US $55 …