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Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world
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You've reached Tom's RC, the home of the SC-8000 Series of Servo Controllers and corresponding application software. Check it out! Designing this controller is one of the most fun projects we've had in years. It is now up to your imagination to make it fly, move, leap... beyond your existing controllers.


News

05/11/07: Revised Java (Eclipse and Visual Studio 2005) versions posted

04/26/07: Revised MFC and Visual Basic sample applications posted

04/12/07: Sample Application and Source Code for different platforms added

  • C++ (Borland Developer Studio 2005)
  • Delphi
  • Eclipse Java
  • Java (Visual Studio 2005)
  • MFC (Visual Studio 2005)
  • Visual Basic (Visual Studio 2005)

05/12/05: Protocol Documentation changed


 
The RC servo motors can be controlled programmatically as well as via standard input devices (keyboard, joysticks, etc...). A quick list of possible applications:

Robotics & Animatronics:

Connection of PC to RC servos. Up to 8 servo motors per controller, (theoretically) up to 256 controllers per PC (2000+ servo motors!)

PC controlled UAV and UGV:

Connection of PC to RC transmitters to control servo motors wirelessly via RF transmission. Depending on the RF band, up to 50 controllers can be used for aircraft (72 MHz) and 30 controllers can be used for surface craft (75MHz).

Check out the latest project using a Transmitter Module (Spectra in this case). A complete USB controlled RF transmitter using industry standard RF modules. See here.