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Synthiam
#9   — Edited

Awesome - adding variables to the watcher is a good suggestion. I'll add that to the list.

In the meantime, here's an experimental Smart Variable Watcher that I made for you. I'm tired but it should work: https://synthiam.com/Support/Skills/Scripting/Smart-Variable-Watcher?id=20379

*Note: When the arrays are originally defined in the init script, it may take a while for the grid to render. After that, it should rock quickly.

I'll add a to-do item that lets specifying what variables to watch.

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Synthiam
#10  

PS, here's your project running and using only 18.3% cpu and 232MB of ram on my i7 desktop from 2012:). Boy ARC is efficient!

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Australia
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Stellar work. I look forward to testing it. Pity I left my robot (pictured above) at my workplace but I'll let you know how it performs - very likely much faster. Its a good outcome to have another improvement to ARC. It might help with my next project - an InMoov robot. Thanks again.

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Canada
#12  

WOW nice meccaonoid mod. Mine just sits in the corner gathering dust.  Did you upgrade the servos in his arms?

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Australia
#14  

All the Meccanoid's servos were replaced with EZRobot HDD servos. That's why I called it EZMecc.

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afcorson, Really like your EZMecc build, very nice. I have a Meccanoid and was wondering how you made the body panels, and if you purchased the head. Maybe I would upgrade it with new servos, EZB, and let the grandkids enjoy it. Anything you want to share about it would be welcome. Thank you, Steve S

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Australia
#16  

I made the main body panels from balsa wood.  The legs are shaped from Meccano leg pieces with artist's matt board adhered to the sides. The chest is screwed on to the existing Meccanoid chest and shaped accordingly. The head I vacuumed formed from a mold I made. It could have been less scary but it turned out OK. This Meccanoid stands at 5 feet - the extra length in the legs, feet and arms is from using parts from a spare Meccanoid. I fitted a mouth servo, movement sensor, ultrasonic sensor and camera and the grippers are from an EZRobot JD humanoid. EZ robot HDD servos are the same size but you have to file the inside of the tiny plastic sleeve from the Meccano servo horns so they can be screwed on to the EZ robot servos. The feet required a lot of messing around to fit the EZ robot continuous rotation servos. You can see from the picture below how tall it is compared to the 4' Meccanoids. Obviously I made heads for of all my Meccanoids as I prefer to have some sort of mouth even if it just lights up. Happy to help with more photos or info.

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