I'm excited to introduce the new items that we will be adding to the store in a week or two. This is a new ez-bit which is an all-in-one Accelerometer/Gyro/Temperature sensor. Here is the new format for ez-bit sensors - which are compact enough to fit in your revolution or custom robot.
Here is the manual page for the device: http://www.ez-robot.com/Tutorials/Help.aspx?id=209
Here's a video where I demonstrate the accelerometer with JD!
Here is the manual page for the device: http://www.ez-robot.com/Tutorials/Help.aspx?id=209
Here's a video where I demonstrate the accelerometer with JD!
Good to know. I have plans for this with ez-ai and the Google maps interface I have. I can use Google maps in walking mode with the gps and compass to direct a robot to a certain point using Google maps to set way points.
Also it would be able to be used with the driving directions to go from current location to an address.
in all seriousness, this is nice. Now all we need is that dynamixel update
GPS does not work well indoors - the signals from the satellites are attenuated and scattered by roofs, walls and other objects. If its an outdoor robot then it could be useful, I think this is what David is referring to and linking it Google maps would be very cool.
Tony
Ok, this seems exciting. Does anyone have ideas or examples of what could be done with this device installed in a robot other then detecting him falling over? I can see some of the uses with a bot walking or rolling around but what about one that is just static and twists and turns like a robot arm or a waist joint?.
It'll be useful for balancing and weight shifting (two things which are key to large bipeds), balance bots which use a single wheel to move and remain upright may also be possible.
@Tony, you get me. Yes, it would be used outdoors. I am posting a video showing integration of EZ-AI with Google Maps right now. Walking directions is a simple switch in the URI using the Google Maps API.
Way back in the day I wrote some software for the Basic Atom Pro micro that would navigate a bot from waypoint to waypoint.... It's not too difficult you just have to find a way to parse the NMEA 0183 sentences that some gps output (usually at 4800baud)...
Yea. The good thing is that the solution that I am going to use will pass the information back to me in Lat Long coords. I will store this route in the database. This will allow the robot to mark these points on the route as achieved and move on to the next one.
At a past job, I worked as a Geographic Information Systems Administrator. We used GPS in vehicles to track oil and gas trucks as they went through their route along with all of the well locations in the United States. It was always interesting to see a truck at the dudes favorite fishing hole instead of on the route. We had to parse out the NMEA to do this. It wasn't bad at all and now there are some C# classes that will do this. Dropping these into my project wont be hard at all (famous last words).