Thread: PC control of a Victor884/883
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Unread 16-03-2005, 18:44
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Re: Rolling your own...
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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
even better THIS from Parrallax Inc. which uses USB to control 16 servos on one board.

I have the Parallax board on order (it hopefully ships Friday). I have high hopes for it. By the way, do not be fooled, the Parrallax Serial Servo Controller is not the same as the Scott Edwards board. The Parallax Serial board is essential made to interface to a STAMP2. It requires other glue to interface to a PC RS-232 port.
Wow, thanks for the link. That board is incredible, and incredibly cheap (which is probably why it is backordered). The manual isn't yet available for donwload. Can you tell me some more about it? Does it plug right into the USB port on a PC? If so, what (program) controls it? Is there software that runs on windows to control all the servos?

You could make a really walking robot with that. What do you plan to do with it?
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