Uarm Metal Robot Arm and Pyuarm library in Ubuntu 16.04 Uarm Metal is a cheap little toy manipulator to start exploring the wonderful world of robotics. Connect the power and USB cables and you should see some blinking lights. Install the pyuarm Python library (somewhat inaccurate instructions here: https://uarmdocs.readthedocs.io/getting_started/): $ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential avrdude $ pip install pyuarm Give full permissions to all users to read and write the USB port (uarm_helper can be used to check that the device is found): $ uarm_helper list /dev/ttyUSB0 1 ports found $ sudo chmod a+rwx /dev/ttyUSB0 Next, you need to upload the firmware: $ uarm_helper firmware Now you are ready to start python and start to move the robot - sufficient number of examples are here: https://pyuarm.readthedocs.io/en/dev/examples.html The main tasks are to move the manipulator and understand what are the orientations of the X, Y and Z axes. ...