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    Will YOU be ready when the zombies rise? x88x's Avatar
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    Default Cheap little servos! Yay!

    So, a couple weeks ago I was wandering around on Deal Extreme looking for other stuff to order with my heatshrink tubing (which they apparently were backordered on ), and I found out that they have several cheap little servos. I've been wanting to play around with servo control for a while now, especially now that I'm finally starting to get into microcontrollers, but it's always been hard since they cost so much (cheapest I'd seen any elsewhere was ~$10 each). So, anyways, these were ~$4-5 each, the Tower Pros are rated at at 2.1 kg-cm, and the Mysterys are rated at 1.3 kg-cm. They ended up being smaller than I was expecting, but that's fine since a lot of the things I'm wanting to play around with require pretty small ones anyways. So, here they are:


    Other than the all plastic gears, they actually feel pretty well made. Definitely better than I was expecting for $4. I figure at the very least these will be good for experimenting and prototyping, and if I decide I need something better quality later I can get them once I know what I'm looking for.

    Once I get these home and start using them, I'll update with how well they work.
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    Default Re: Cheap little servos! Yay!

    It's actually not surprising since if you can get servos almost direct from manufacter you'll find they're quite cheap. And the majority of parts are high quality.
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    Default Re: Cheap little servos! Yay!

    I wish I could buy things direct.
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    Default Re: Cheap little servos! Yay!

    Dude nice score!!!!

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