For the brain i used a arduino. Until i finised my one controller.



I used a conector from a pc module to connect the powerboard whit the power supply

If you connect red and blank to a multiemeter

You wil see 5v (for the servos and the distance sensor)

And whit yellow and black you get 12v (for the arduino)

What i did is pritty simple

I made 5 servo connectors, solder the positive in parall to 5v and negative to ground

I did the same whit the ds sensor



Then i solder some pinheaders and connected the signals pins of the servos to they pinheaders and the 2 middel pins from they sensor also.

Now we can connect it whit the arduino by using some jumpers

it doesnt matter whits pin you connect it on the arduino. As long as you say in your program that you connected it to that pin.



On the powerboard i also ad a led to indicate the power is on. Just add a 100 ohm ressistor to 5v, and the other and of the led to ground. And your done. :)



the 10mm led on the robot is just connected the the arduino, a ressistor of 100 ohm goes from pin 13 to the positive pin from the led and the negative goes to ground.

you can turn it on and off in you program.



i used 5 servo connector´s for 6 servo´s, beceaus the 2 servo´s on the bottem are using the same signal. you need to solder those wires to getter, and plug them in to the power board



we need some power now, don´t use a adapter for this, it just can´t handel the power what the arm needs.

use a pc power supply, just connect the green wire whit a black wire. and the powersupply run´s and give´s you power.

if you don´t connect these wire´s nothing happend, you need to bind these wire´s together.



the signal pins from the servo motors, can you just plug in to a pwm channel on your arduino. that are the pins whit this before it ~

the distance sensor can you plug in to pin 6 and 7. and the led to 13 and ground. that are al the pins that you need to use.

it doesn´t matter how you cennect the servo´s as long as this symboly ~ stands for the pin number.



Now you can program the arduino

Make sure you turn the powersupply off before pluging the usb cable in.

And remove the usb when you want to test your code on your robotic arm.

otherwishe the aruido gets 5v from the usb and 12 from the power supply

and the power of the usb goes in to the powersupply and the powersuppply whil sut down (for security ressons).



The phone connector you can see on the picture is just a connector for the distance sensor. But you can use any connector you like.



like you can see in the scematic, i ad a Potentiometer to control the servo. the only thin you need to do is to repeat this whit 5 signals voor the 6 servo´s. the pot is not nessersery but the code won´t work if you dont ad the Potentiometer´s.

the other 5 Potentiometer can you just plug in to anolog pin 0,1,2,3 and 4