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Post 11 - Kickstarter now live!

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Hi folks. Fantastic news - our Kickstarter project is now live!!! Click on the link to take a look, and feel free to share. And, of course, if you'd like, you can make a pledge to help support our developments :-) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1280292370/robot-arm-control-gui/description Until next time, That's all folks! Steve

Post 10 - Kickstarter Project Release Date

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Hi Folks. This is just a short post to let everyone know that our Kickstarter Project is going live on Friday 11th October. This is our Robot Arm Control GUI, which allows you to control a robot arm with up to 6 Degrees Of Freedom (DOF) from your PC via a USB link to an Arduino which drives the servo motors in the arm. Post 8 gives a run down on the GUI software, so be sure to take a look to see what it can do. Screenshot of the Robot Arm Control GUI software  We're in the final stages of testing now and putting together the User Guide. We aim to have the code available for downloading around the 16th December, just in time to hook it up to that new robot arm kit you get for Christmas, lol. To recap, the GUI allows you to control the arm using sliders to move each joint into a position. The position can then be stored in a table and the arm moved to another position, etc. In this way you can build up a sequence of moves to get the arm to perform a task. The sequence can