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?
The physical wiring may be different per version. The easiest is ttl because it can be connected direct. The servos I have used are one per protocol. The ax12 (protocol 1 ttl) and the plastic terrible servos shipped with the Darwin mini (protocol 2 ttl)
OK thanks Kamaroman68. The feed back and other things are not important to this project, just a good smooth moving heavy duty servo with a warranty.
@Dj, ok sounds good, I'll see what we can get going with this now i got the right one ordered! Thanks!
So against my better judgement I downloaded the latest dynamixel plug in. Now none of my dynamixel servos work. Here we go again!
Did you configure the new plugin? Every control that is configurable has a gear icon. Press the gear icon to configure the plugin.
the mx64t dynamixels communicate. I can turn there leds on and off. I can move the mx64t dynamixel servos.
However I can not move the mx 28t dynamixel servos. I can not make the leds turn on and off on the mx28t servos.
My dynamixel bus is left arm mx28t - mx64t - mx28t right arm mx28t - mx64t - mx28t
Again I can not communicate with the mx28t servos at all. Thanks
Did you configure the correct protocol for the ID's of the MX28t servos? You can configure the protocol for the respective ID by pressing the CONFIG gear icon on the plugin.
Let me know how it goes I just ordered the 28-t yesterday.
mx 28t and mx64t use same protocol and steps/resolution. (4096) protocol 1
Addressed all servos using the utility in ARC.
CAN NOT communicate with the mx28t dynamixel servos.