OOPS

Author: dragoncoder047

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-Title: 3 pins? Yes?
+Title: 3 pins? Yes
 Date: 2023-04-14
 
 It's been quite a while since I last shared an update. But then again, not much has happened since then, either.
 
 I figured out how to remove the claw from its mounting on the wrist joint, and replaced it with the old-style three finger gripper from the spare-parts Armdroid. And, as I had read elsewhere, it looked very creepy and lifelike when I operated it -- that is, until one of the three strings connected to the fingers snapped (it had probably dry-rotted) and rendered the whole claw useless and I was forced to reinstall the standard 2-finger gripper.
 
-I also was able to install the new Anderson-connector power adapter I had made up [earlier]({filename}disassembly.md), and 
+I also was able to install the new Anderson-connector power adapter I had made up [earlier]({filename}disassembly.md), and although I had to hot-glue it in (the hole was slightly too small for me to wedge it in by friction), it was a clean swap and now I can run the armdroid nicely off the 12-volt batteries. I also soldered a long wire onto the Armdroid's internal 5V line and connected it using an old Fischertechnik plug pair to a spare 10th wire on my patch cable (I had thought of this in advance!) so the Arduino could be powered off the Armdroid's 5V supply.
 
 The Arduino program I initially wrote still worked, and it worked very well for what it did. Unfortunately I have not yet been able to add any sort of autonomous movement, but I don't think that would be too difficult. The only downside is that trigonometry on the Arduino is very slow -- although it can can be sped up a lot from the default.