Love digging up a horse and beating it again? Well fellas I'm here to help you out!
Lets start another up to date discussion about the use of, and the support of, Dynamixels and the HerkuleX line of professional servos. I'm moving up a level with some upcoming projects and steering away from the hobby style servos. I've spent days researching, using geared stepper motors, geared DC motors as servos and have come back full circle to serial servos. Due in part, by all the unknowns and unreliability associated with creating a servo from scratch.
Tell me about your success and failures of using the Dynamixel and HerkuleX servos with EZB. Please be detailed in your experience and add something to what is already written in the prior threads about subject. What needs to change/improve for better support? Perhaps this is adding to existing plugins or writing new ones? Speaking of plug ins (this is probably another topic), but i wonder if there would be more incentive to create plug ins if there was a pay for development? Like how the app store works? Just a thought there.
I really believe in everything EZ robot and want to continue using the products, because well its so EZ and the results are amazing. I'm well aware the majority of sales is in the education market for EZ Robot and therefore guides their company. But, how can we work together as a group to build support for the next level of servos and professional robotics? And ask ourselves what is the motivation to do so?
I know your a busy guy but would you mind sharing your virtual servo scripts when you have a chance? I really like to get all the info i can to work through a process. Looks like have yours working and I could really use a peak. Thanks. No real rush.
You bet I'll save it out...very simple..
Still recommend you get the USB/Dynamixel interface, plus Robotis.us has a lot of helpful information. Glad to see DJ adding support for this, good job!
@69developer, i ordered that and the arbotix controller and the piggy back board for the bigger dynamixels. Just to test with. The Dynamixel plug in has a scaling implementation that works ok for my needs but very interested in exploring these servos full potential for future projects, as shown in this video:
Yeah that's a super cool video, but at present we can't get feed back. I will say I'm pretty damn happy with what I've got accomplished.
Yes for sure, so happy i can include these servos with the EZB. I did some testing for an hour or so last night. The scaling took me awhile to figure out. In fact just a couple minutes ago i was playing again and finally figured out how to get complete 360 at the fine resolution of 4096..which is overkill really. I used 1024 and that would be more than i would need. But its just opens a whole new door for me. Feedback would be awesome, but maybe thats not possible or a future implementation. Expect BIG things from me in the future..ha.
Feedback should be possible. The UARTs are 2 way.
Whether DJ gets to it before another developer takes up the reins and writes the plugin is the question. Lots of stuff on DJs todo list, and supporting 3rd party stuff is great, but tends to get less attention (reasonably so).
Alan
Yes the man has a lot on his plate. It's always why I'm appreciative when he takes the time out to work on a request. Count the CEOs that participate in their companies forums?!