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02 Blockly Pick & Place With Jumps & Loops

Written by Chris Hurd.

Download When programming a robotic arm, it often becomes necessary to repeat operations a set number of times or indefinitely. This can be accomplished by adding different styles of loops to our program. It is also a good programming habit to optimize or reduce your lines of code when appropriate....

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01 Blockly Pick and Place Dobot

Written by Chris Hurd.

Download Robotic arms are excellent for performing pick and place operations such as placing small electronic components on circuit boards or laser cut stainless steel stencils, as well as large boxes on pallets. A pick and place operation will require at least 5 points: In this activity you will...

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Dipping with the Dobot Magician

Written by Chris Hurd.

Pick and place and moving things around are staples of industrial robots.  Another reason to use robots in industry and automation is because of danger to humans. Robots can work in environments that are adverse to humans; especially toxic and/or adverse environments. Sometimes the best way to pick...

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Dobot to Dobot Handshake!

Written by Chris Hurd.

We did it! We made a dobot magician talk to another one and make it start. We even added a VEX switch as an input to start the first one. It is easy to do, but one word of caution: Never connect or disconnect any wires to the dobot while it is powered on; always power it down first. Damage may result! Ok,...

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Model Train Tutorials

Written by Chris Hurd.

So you’re having a hard time making all those train parts? Watch the tutorials below to see how Jim does them. I find some of the methods he uses makes it easier to understand, especially with the cow catcher. He also uses different techniques, so you may actually end up learning something....

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