NEX ROBOTICS Fire Bird V ATMEGA2560 HEXAPOD User Manual page 20

Fire Bird V ATMEGA2560 Hexapod Robot User Guide
4.5 Hexapod legs naming convention
Fire Bird V Hexapod has six legs. Each leg has three motors. To avoid confusion while
addressing motors certain naming convention is used. Starting from the top left each leg is
named from 1 to 6. Three motors on the each legs are named as A, B or C, i.e. each motor have
the unique name as 1A or 3C etc.
Figure 4.2: Fire Bird V Hexapod motor naming convention (stickers on the each servo
motor)
4.5 Servo Connectors for camera mounted servo pod
ATMEGA 2560 microcontroller board has three Servo connectors. It can be used for driving
servo motors of camera pod for tilt and pan motion. Connect tilt servo to the S1 socket and pan
servo to the S2 socket. Servo connections are shown in the figure 4.3.
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