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Dynamixels And Herkulex.Again

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?


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#25  

Will I don't understand your question but I can answer it when you clarify

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#27  

Well i cancelled my order so i could be sure. I ordered the Rs-485 ver, but i am now ordering the ttl ver of the Mx-28T to test with.

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#28  

With final version being the MX -106T

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#30  

OK great reordering now. Did you have a chance to try the new plug in?

#31  

The ttl version is supposedly easier to make work (3) wire compared to (4)wire rs485. I'm not even sure the ezb 4 can use serial 485 without some kind of converter. Not sure how much your looking to do with these servos but as I said before you will not realize there full potential due to lack of bidirectional communication with the ezb4.

#32  

I did not try the new plug in. In all honesty it took several iterations of dynamixel plug in refinement by DJ to get part of it working for me a while back. I'm almost afraid to go through that again.