Control a Robotic Arm with just your fingertips

Build, hack and move a robotic arm with flicks, finger movements and gestures

This tutorial combines the Maplin Robotic Arm and Pimoroni’s Skywriter HAT to enable you to take control of the robot with just the touch of your fingertips. The arm can move through three points of articulation and ends in a clamp to give you maximum flexibility with movement. The arm also moves through 120 degrees in the wrist, 300 degrees at the elbow, 180 degrees at the base in the vertical and 270 degrees in the horizontal. It is easy to assemble and is a great beginners’ robot. In this tutorial you will first install the Python modules to enable your Raspberry Pi to interact with the USB port, and then learn how to use Python code to send commands to and receive them from the arm. Next we’ll write…

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