# M1 video: Bench it

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**Status: planned.**

This page links Joel's video for [M1. Bench it](/lore/m1-bench-it) once it is published.

## Plan

**Working title:** I bought a robot arm in a bag of parts. Here's the first time it moved.

Beats:

1. Unpacking the parts against the official BOM.
2. What the control board is, in an overhead macro.
3. The four ways to destroy the board: the official graphic, then Joel's own words.
4. Metering the supply.
5. The first power-on, as a screen recording of the serial report.
6. The motor turning, in macro, with a flag of tape on the shaft.
7. The E-stop and the switch reading in `#IO` and `#LIMIT`.
8. The kill switch.
9. What Joel now understands, and what scared him.

**Shots:** An overhead bench camera; a macro on the board and the driver DIAG pins; a screen capture of the terminal; a close-up of the multimeter.

**Teaches:** Power, drivers, open-loop steppers and the safe stop.

## Terms

- **M1 video**: the published video for milestone 1.

## Lore on this page

- [M1. Bench it: power, one motor, a safe stop](/lore/m1-bench-it)
- [The PAROL6 milestones](/lore/milestones)

## What links here

- Agent guide → Joel builds a PAROL6 robot arm, one sourced and filmed milestone at a time. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/llms.txt)

- Change log → What changed in the files served here, newest first. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/log)

- Full agent guide → Joel builds a PAROL6 robot arm, one sourced and filmed milestone at a time. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/llms-full.txt)

- M1. Bench it: power, one motor, a safe stop → The first milestone takes a bare control board and one motor to a live bench rig that powers on, turns a motor and stops when the mains switch goes off. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/lore/m1-bench-it)

- Milestone videos → Each milestone ends in one video, and every video is planned until Joel publishes it. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/lore/videos)

- PAROL6 build → Joel builds a PAROL6 robot arm, one sourced and filmed milestone at a time. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/)

- PAROL6 wiki | PAROL6 build → The PAROL6 build wiki: the milestones, their videos and the official sources behind them. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/lore)

- Source change history (log.md) → The generated change log as Markdown. → [Read page](https://parol6.build/log.md)