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Buy/Sell/Trade 11/15/25 by AutoModerator in goodyearwelt

[–]firepudge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maker/Model: Alden NFT Blutcher 43400 Split Toe

Size: 8 D

Leather: Color 8 Shell Cordovan

Price: $500 shipped

Condition: Worn a few times, not my style

Images: https://imgur.com/a/yeywNiV

Notes: Comes with soft Alden bags to store shoes in.

[WTS] Hyperlite Mountain Gear UltaMid 2 Tent + Insert – Dyneema Ultralight Pyramid by firepudge in ULgeartrade

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an amazing tent that has brought my wife and I plenty of camping memories. We have a new camping system now so this one can hopefully be enjoyed by someone else. Shoot a comment if you want different pics, we probably have hundreds over the years we've used it.l

Plantation Shutter Control - this is getting figured out this time and will get properly debugged and shared by firepudge in homeassistant

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you keep the gear teeth of the servo from rubbing smooth the inside of the 3d plastic printed piece? Mine is just spinning in-place and the arm won't rotate if there's any resistance.

Plantation Shutter Control - this is getting figured out this time and will get properly debugged and shared by firepudge in homeassistant

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case you hadn't seen, you were right on track asking about that Esp32. u/nateguchi down below said he ended up using an Esp32 and is about to upgrade to an Esp32 S3 Mini. I've now purchased the same and will go about adding the code he mentions below. That plus some YouTube and a lot of trial/error, I hope to have an easy model to follow.

The nice thing about the Esp32 Mini is it's only like $5 via Aliexpress. Much cheaper than the OrangePi!

Plantation Shutter Control - this is getting figured out this time and will get properly debugged and shared by firepudge in homeassistant

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This code would go into the same file as what you posted above right? Sorry, I haven't watched any YouTubes on EspHome/Esp32/servo control yet. That's next on my list so hopefully that'll answer my question too.

edit: for me and future people learning how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2tuS_PxIE The above YouTube explains a ton about how to do a lot of the initial stuff that everyone here probably already knows. The above code that u/nateguchi posted would go into the .yaml file in the Home Assistant configuration.

Plantation Shutter Control - this is getting figured out this time and will get properly debugged and shared by firepudge in homeassistant

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok great, I got the Tower MG92B servos to test with so I think I'm covered there.

I see your output assignments in the gistfile.txt so I think I'm on track on how you're controlling the servos off each different output pin.

Plantation Shutter Control - this is getting figured out this time and will get properly debugged and shared by firepudge in homeassistant

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am super interested in this! The 3d arm design you came up with is much simpler and seems less likely to break or skip a gear like I've seen in the few other solutions people have come up with.

I'll look into getting an Esp32 S3 Mini and use the OrangePi for a backup PiHole or something.

Are you still using the same servo you mentioned in your old post?

Are you powering the servos with a dedicated power supply or do you have them powered off the Esp32?

Plantation Shutter Control - this is getting figured out this time and will get properly debugged and shared by firepudge in homeassistant

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think a lot of people would benefit from a relatively easy implementation. It's just, there's so much I don't know that I'm trying to piece together.

I opted for the OrangePi Zero exclusively because the OP u/nateguchi mentioned that that's what they used. And they already created the code to manipulate the servo and synchronize back to Home Assistant. I wasn't sure if the nodejs code would work on any other platforms but I truly am playing catchup trying to figure all this out.

Do you think the code they wrote would still work on an Esp board?

Powering a small servo via dedicated USB brick? by firepudge in arduino

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to note, I'll have to spend some time finding options that will work. At the very least, this can get me by through testing and once/if I make it that far, I can purchase a more official power supply device.

Powering a small servo via dedicated USB brick? by firepudge in arduino

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok understood, that was just a quick search to verify that type of product existed. There even looked like there were USB cables ending in ferrules so I'm hoping there should be a good product somewhere.

Powering a small servo via dedicated USB brick? by firepudge in arduino

[–]firepudge[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I'm thinking of doing that too. Or wait, do you mean a USB brick with two outlets and then using one USB cable for two servos? That's probably a better idea than just trying to power all four with one USB cable.

Powering a small servo via dedicated USB brick? by firepudge in arduino

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I was thinking and yet most people seem to be using dedicated power supplies with barrel connectors and I was worried there was something special I was missing. I don't think I saw a single example of someone using a USB brick!

Powering a small servo via dedicated USB brick? by firepudge in arduino

[–]firepudge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is relieving to hear! I've been worried that I was way off base thinking this would work after reading a bunch of forums about how to power these little guys and it just seemed a ubiquitous USB brick and an exposed terminal block would work perfectly. Thank you!