Live Robot Hack Session
DJ Sures
Synthiam

Robot as puppet to control another robot by reading servo positions

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In this hack, I'll be showing how to control a robot with another robot as a puppet by reading servo positions. Connecting a wire from the servo's potentiometer to an ADC input on an EZB.


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#9   — Edited

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i think there is 14 on the mega?
16

Some combinations: mcp3008 (SPI 8 ADC Ports)  plus an arduino, you can combine multiple, each circuit requires a slave signal: https://www.adafruit.com/product/856

ADS1015 (I2C 4 ADC Ports) you can use 4 (different addresses) per I2C bus. you can add an I2C multiplex (8 x ):   https://www.adafruit.com/product/2717 than you can have 8 x 4 x 4 = 128 ports:) I used two of ADS1015 with a Raspberry PI, it's an I2C device maybe you can connect directly to the EZB. https://www.adafruit.com/product/1083

if you have size constrains or/and wire allergies an atmel mega in a small pcb https://www.amazon.com/RobotDyn-ATmega2560-16AU-Compatible-Bootloader-pinheaders/dp/B071SG3TLV

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#10  

Thanks for the info Ptp!

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#11   — Edited

Piggy backing off the stream, I started looking to other options for a small onboard computers and found this. It uses intel processors (not Atom), but it is more expensive than the AtomicPI, but packs alot of power for the money / trade off. All in the form factor of the PI. There are a few other flavors now too and one coming up on kickstarter.

There are some great reviews on youtube. The original is just called the Up Board. Then they have Up Squared and so on..each more expensive the previous one. Crazy to have a full computer the size of credit card available for embedded robotics.

https://up-board.org/

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#12  

@DJ they have Atomic Pi back in stock. I'm going to get a couple to play with. Do you want me to get and ship one to you?

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#13  

We reached out to the manufacturer and they have a few on the way:)

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#14  

Nice! Glad to see they are shipping to other places NOT in the states!

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#16   — Edited

...yup just got mine today. I saw that article that they were designed for the Kuri robot.  They had 4 GB ram in those robots these top out at 2GB only:(