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?
Ouch!
@Dj, good idea.
But does demonstrate the importance of how powerful these servos are! Use caution to keep from maiming yourself !
@fxrtst - so how did your Dynamixel project work out?
It's still n progress. It will develop over the next couple of months. But so far I love the high resolution. Even without the feedback, it's a superior servo for large projects.
@dj,
I don't want to create another thread as this is still on topic. Do virtual servos support invert direction? I can seem to get a dynamixel to invert on the camera panel.
I don't think so. I'll have to look at the plugin code and see
Ok thanks.
Couple of things. Just got my MX 64ATs and updated to the newest version of ARC. Now not sure if it's coincidence but I can't get the dynamixels to move anymore. Could anyone one with this set up confirm the plug in is still working. I'm up to date with the plug in as well. Tried with both my new dynamixels and my mx28. Nothing at all.
So many variables in this set up want to rule out broken plug in first before I run down thru the list.