{"id":847,"date":"2009-08-04T15:53:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=847"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:58:05","slug":"internet-controlled-robot-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/internet-controlled-robot-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Controlled Robot Arm &#8211; coming to a browser near you&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2+ Years ago I purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.labvolt.com\/publications\/Datasheets\/Current2\/dsa5100.pdf\">LabVolt Armdriod Robot Arm<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/\">Ebay<\/a>. It did not come with its control box, but I have been able to <a href=\"http:\/\/dankohn.info\/projects\/armdroid.html\">reverse-engineer<\/a> it so it could be controlled by a PC via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.ic.ac.uk\/~ih\/doc\/par\/\">parallel port<\/a>. Now, some students and I are in the process of getting it on the internet, so you can run the robot via a web browser using an image from an internet camera as part of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/\">University of Memphis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/et\/\">Engineering Technology<\/a> display. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?attachment_id=848\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-848\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/webcam_2009_8_4_15_49_16_369-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"webcam_2009_8_4_15_49_16_369\" title=\"webcam_2009_8_4_15_49_16_369\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-848\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/webcam_2009_8_4_15_49_16_369-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/webcam_2009_8_4_15_49_16_369.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hope to have it all done by the start of the Semester at the end of the month. I will post the link when it is all tested and ready to go. <\/p>\n<p>I have been playing with the prototype, and it is quite challenging to stack the blocks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2+ Years ago I purchased a LabVolt Armdriod Robot Arm from Ebay. It did not come with its control box, but I have been able to reverse-engineer it so it could be controlled by a PC via the parallel port. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/internet-controlled-robot-arm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-memphis_robotics","category-robot-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}