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Robotic arm KSR-10

Kit VELLEMAN KSR10 – Robot arm kit. Assembling the original kit creates a very fun robotic model for budding engineers. Building this kit will show you how fun electronics and mechanics can be! When finished, you can play with your own robotic arm with five motors and five joints. The original control of this kit was solved by a fixed control unit with five switches.

The KSR-10 kit was used as the basis for the mechanical construction of the future remote-controlled robotic arm in our remote laboratory. A completely new electronic circuit board and power supply were designed for the space originally intended for the batteries. The electronics were designed to maintain the functionality of the original robotic arm, but also to create a new electronics platform for future remote control. It was necessary to equip each of the five motors for the robot's movement with limit switches that evaluate the extreme positions of each degree of freedom for remote control with "24/7" operation. The resulting robotic arm can now be controlled not only manually (using the original controller – as designed), but especially using the USB interface board Velleman K8055 with a connected PC (concept DERIL) or using the Arduino and Ethernet Shield module (current concept RAMBO). This possibility of connecting the Velleman KSR-10 robotic arm to the K8055 interface board, or to modules such as the Arduino or ESP32, allows you to further create a remote controlled experiment.