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A Budget Quasi-Direct-Drive Motor Inpired By MIT’s Mini Cheetah

A Budget Quasi-Direct-Drive Motor Inpired By MIT’s Mini Cheetah

It’s an unfortunate fact that when a scientist at MIT describes an exciting new piece of hardware as “low-cost,” it might not mean the same thing as if a hobbyist had said it. [Caden Kraft] encountered this disparity when he was building a SCARA arm and needed good actuators. An actuator like those on MIT’s Mini Cheetah would have been …

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