This is a video tutorial of the basic concept on how to control a DC motor from ordinary personal computer.
By using a few widely available modular components, you can create a flexible system that can be used to control a DC motor. Start by selecting a DC motor that will meet the demands of your project, then a motor controller that can provide sufficient power to the motor. Add an appropriate servo controller to generate the R/C control signals, and software to issue commands to the servo controller, and you’re ready to roll! If you need to monitor the motor speed, feedback is easily achieved by adding an optical encoder.
In this video, there is no circuit diagram of motor provided. All module is already prepared and you should buy/build the motor controller and Encoder first before practicing this tutorial.
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| Title | : | Video: Controlling a DC Motor from Computer |
| Category | : | Robotics Tutorial. |
| Tags | : | connect motor controller to computer, control dc motor from computer, control dc motor from pc, |
The word robotics was derived from the word robot, which was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Liar!", published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction. Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics, he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots. In some of Asimov's other works, he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942). However, the word robotics appears in "Liar!"
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