PICTURE OF IT
 

Does anyone know what this is?

Surprised me too..
 

That thing actually is a motor, it's the Torque motor, and no I have no idea what to use it for.. Something that doesn't require much rotation, I guess..

But...
 

But how the heck would I get it to work? And what's with the button on the side?

Button....
 

When u push the button down on the side it allows you to move the little part back and forth that the motor moves.....


:)

Re: Surprised me too..
 

It'd be enough to lift a robot off the ground.

We were hosting the SCRRF (SoCal robotics forum) workshops today, and while we were scratching our heads thinking of what the torque motor is useful for, one of us happened to look up and see the exact same motor (same exact brand and model) on the air conditioning ducts. A quick check of some other rooms confirmed that these torque motors had been above my head in most of my math, science, and language classes for the past 3.5 years, and I'd probably stared at them during many of my more boring classes. Funny thing is, our climate control system never works well and seems to have only two settings -- 85 and 60, so these things can't work too well.

If we were to use it...
 

If our team were to use the torque motor, how would we connect it to the RC? The darn thing has a 5-pin connector! Also, would we even need to use a motor controller with it?

Another posibility.. Since we only get 2 servos this year, it can actually work as a very slow servo..