
animator28
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There is a company in india making these awesome cheap boards (way cheaper than using sabertooth) that turns dc motors with encoders. Into positional servos. They have arduino code already and I am wondering if this can be translated into the ezb v4 platform thanks here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZePOyxjhMY&t=460s Or do we have script templates already for this?
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How many motors do you have to control with the encoder wheel?
also, i do have a slight concern with the encoder wheel as a servo. While it’ll kinda work, there’s going to be a margin of error. And over time, it’ll move out of position. And each time you use it, every encoder wheel servo will need to be recalibrated.
if you could add a potentiometer to each joint, as Richard r pointed out, it’ll be more reliable and easier to use. It’ll decrease setup time as well.
my recommendations for that is to connect a servo pcb to a more powerful hbridge. This gives the hbridge the ability to become a servo.
Oh ok
Yea getting out of sync over time is not an option. Each Motor has the encoder built in
Taking a servo apart and using the board to connect to a pot then the hbridge
You guys are right its just quicker
Thats really cool
I will probably just do that
It seems in robotics there are many different solutions to a problem