CAN BUS Control Score 7774
Challenge. Go big or go home.
I'm looking into the CAN actuators used on the Cheetah mini. They are not poorly priced ($300) and offer 150 pound/inch of torque @ 24v. They are brush less, geared and have their own built in drivers, smooth motion and quiet operation. I have an up coming project and would like to control these with EZ Builder. There are arduino shields that support CAN and there is even a pre-written sketch to send data to a CAN actuator. The actuator protocol is somewhat like Dynamixels, in that you can change ID, monitor temperature, control speed, direction and position.
What say you? I'd like to see support added for more industrial actuators like this one, and Servos like ClearPath . Inspiration came from this guy (who cracks me up) and managed to pull this off very quickly using a few of the tools below. Hardware starts at 5:40.
Shield: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/can-bus-shield-hookup-guide/all Sketch: https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/CAN_BUS_Shield Actuator: Actuator
Given that innfos website is all rendered images (not real photos) and using stock photo clip art of a robot AND their banner ad is promoting stuff from last year AND the news page is broken AND AND AND AND.... I'd have to say they're no longer in business guys - move on to a real product.
Half their website doesn't work. Geez, i hope you guys do better due-diligence before purchasing stuff online than this
You're gonna go broke buying vaporware!
Ummmm please watch the video I posted on #14. That is not computer generated.
Right - there's a few things but I'm guessing prototype. The company went kickstarter to try and recover from a financial crisis, I imagine. Companies that receive investment and thrive make money from sales - and sales requires a website.... something they don't quite have
. Due to the price and promise, we wish they existed but my gut says no more
Also - china is a weird place for business because one business can have 10+ operating names. So that business could be a sub of another business which is sub of another that's no longer operational. Or, it was assembled as a concept to gain traction... the traction never happened so poof it's gone and the owners are onto something new.
Either way - a business that doesn't sell anything or makes it difficult to buy anything or use their product... isn't really a business
Totally agree. I'm sure their business plan (if they have one) has changed 100 times. How many times do we say if its too good to be true, it probably is. The price point on those motors was really low. My guess is someone like softbank is backing them into making robots instead of robots actuators for the general masses. Either way...we can X them off the list!
The actuators are real...but only time will tell, if this is just vaporware or a real product!!
One way to find out - maybe they can be saved if there's customers. Send them a message on their website and see if there's a response. They do have quite a bit of info in their wiki so hopefully the products exist and are available for purchase
Well probably not... Someone "raided" the office, maybe it was a bullied robot?
WOW! Thats a bunch of pissed off investors