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March 25, 2026

Smokey Fingers

March 25, 2026/ Rob Miles

I didn’t know you could actually blow up servo motors. Turns out that you can though. I was doing some calibration of my googly eyes and typed in a wrong number. The servo tried to go to a place it couldn’t and got very warm and stopped. I should have been quicker unplugging it. Fortunately I have plenty of spares…

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Rob Miles is technology author and educator who spent many years as a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull. He is also a Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He is into technology, teaching and photography. He is the author of the World Famous C# Yellow Book and almost as handsome as he thinks he is.

 
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