Tips & Tricks for Building a Lynxmotion AL5D Robot Arm

Question: I heard building the AL5D was really hard. Do you have any tips or tricks for building it? Answer: Of course we have tips and tricks! Best one yet? Read the new manual; you can find it Here: PLTW-AL5D-Guide-11. They just spent a lot of time rewriting the manual, and added a lot of our suggestions...

How do you use outputs on a Dobot Magician?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: How do you use outputs on a Dobot Magician to do something? Answer: How about a grinding operation? See below for the basics. A full blown tutorial will be coming soon! A Grinding Operation with the Dobot and a Continuous Rotation Servo This robot is the smoothest, speediest, most accurate...

How Accurate is the Dobot Magician?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: Just how accurate is the Dobot Magician? Answer: Short answer: very accurate. To 0.007″ to be exact. Verified by an independent study student of mine using statistical analysis. In May of 2017 I purchased a Dobot Magician from an Etsy shop, as that was the only way to get them at...

NEW! Lynxmotion AL5D PLTW Guide

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: The guide for building the Lynxmotion AL5D robot is not easy to follow. Do you have any suggestions for building the robot? Answer: Of course we do! #1: Robotshop & Lynxmotion put out a brand new guide that can be found HERE. The new guide is very easy to follow with great step by step...

How Do I Handshake Between Two VEX Cortexes?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: I have two machines connected to 2 VEX Cortexes and I want to make them talk to one another using inputs and outputs. How do I do this? Answer: This is called handshaking, and you will need two computers running RobotC Software, and 2 VEX cortex’s to do this. Below is a worksheet...

How do I Handshake Between a VEX Cortex and a Lynxmotion Robot Arm?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: I have a lynxmotion robot, and I want to make it talk to a machine connected to a VEX Cortex using inputs and outputs. How do I do this? Answer: This is called handshaking, and you will need at least one computer, Flowarm and RobotC Software, a Lynx arm with SSC32 controller, and a VEX cortex...

How do I Handshake Lynx Robot to Lynx Robot

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: I have two lynxmotion robots, and I want to make them talk to one another via inputs and outputs. How do I do this? Answer: You will need two robot arms using SSC32U controllers, a few 4N25 optical isolators a few resistors, FlowArm software and some wires and a breadboard and you are ready...

Feetech Servo on the Lynxmotion AL5D Arm

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: My new Lynxmotion AL5D robot arm from RobotShop came with a new servo called a Feetech. How come my arm works backwards now? Answer: Well…. because the servo may be installed backwards. I know, you looked at the picture on the directions, but the first one may be wrong. When they...

What are the Robocell shortcuts?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: What are all of the Robocell shortcuts? is there a list somewhere? Answer: There is just such a list, and special thanks to Moises Gonzalez for compiling it for us! There’s a picture below, or you can download it at the link below. The link will download a PDF with 4 per sheet so...

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