Made Some Modifications to the Robot Arm

I received a package early on Friday with some new parts for the Robotic Arm. One of the things that I was after was to increase the torque on the shoulder and elbow servos. You can see in this picture that the new shoulder servo is rather big.





This particular view shows the larger servo and the fact that I moved the shoulder servo to the elbow. That effectively increases the torque in both joints and should give me a better chance to have the Robotic Arm work correctly. I also added some mechanical dampeners to both of the joints to effectively help the servos maintain their positions. I have to be careful however because tightening the dampeners too much will burn out the servos. The mechanical dampeners were based on two pieces of lexan, screwed together on either side of the "C" clamps. Now on to finishing the assembly and final checkout.