/tags/sudoroom/ Recent content in Sudoroom on galvanist Hugo en Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:06:04 +0000 /posts/2014-10-09-giving-your-ancient-robot-arm-a-storage-upgrade/ Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:06:04 +0000 /posts/2014-10-09-giving-your-ancient-robot-arm-a-storage-upgrade/ <p><img src="oldsite_inline_nd5dhnJ5VO1rziekg.gif" alt="YASNAC Motoman K10S side view diagram"></p> <p>I&rsquo;ve been hacking on a <a href="https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Giant_robot_arm">Giant Robot Arm</a> at a great hackerspace called <a href="https://sudoroom.org/">sudoroom</a>. I&rsquo;m doing so under the expert tutelage of an <a href="https://github.com/jerkey">amazing genius</a> or <a href="https://github.com/treeherder">two</a>.</p> <h2 id="the-enemy">The Enemy</h2> <p>Below you will see the YASNAC FC1 pictured. It is an incredibly slow of speed, minuscule of capacity, short of reliability, and large of footprint external floppy drive. It connects to the various robot brain parts by a standard RS-232 serial connection. That whole giant device is just the floppy drive.</p>