Ings175
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Can the Hovis Eco be made to work with the EZB? I have been looking at this bot for a while and am really close to getting it but I want to be able to intregrate the ezb with it for personality and a little better servo control.
If it uses serial or digital servos, then yes. You might want to check if each servo has a seprate wire or not.
It looks like it is a serial servo.
Now I am waiting to find out if it is last years model or this years model shipping and I am ordering it. FYI the servo it uses is the HerkuleX DRS 0101 if you want to check to make sure I am looking at the right thing.
this is interesting.i though all servo's where digital. blush
Looking at the user guide for the DRS 0101 it uses serial for control and requires Rx and Tx, which immediately means that it will require the V4 EZ-B since the V3 doesn't have the ability to receive serial, only send it.
I only had a quick look over the user guide but it looks like it probably can be controlled by the EZ-B V4. Double check the communication protocol it requires and that of which the EZ-B V4 has.
Either way I ordered my Eco today. I really am a fan of how it looks. It's walking is decent and it now comes with the gyro sensor.
I am ordering my ezbv4 in the next few days. I also want to get the camera depending on the eco's head size and if I can make it fit. Otherwise I may swap over to using the JD head on it. Won't know till it is here.
I am excited to be at the beginning of this project. The Eco is relatively new as is the ezbv4. As far as I know I will be the first putting the two together. There needs to be more videos of the ECO on YouTube anyway.
hi ing175.are the led for the eyes also allreddy included.
I am not 100 percent sure what I am getting. I am getting mine from eBay and they wrote me back and said it is the ECO plus model shipping as of January 1st. Which supposingly has the led eyes, touch sensor for the head, hand sensors as well as the gyro.
Even in Hovis's late 2013 catalog it only showed the plus model in it.
If for some reason it isn't what the seller says it is I will simply return it. But it is shipping from Korea so it is quite possibly being drop shipped. I can't imagine why they would still be shipping the original model at this point especially from their home country. Also robotshop and road narrows are only offering the plus model now as well. Roadnarrows has yet to update their website to show the new model though.
the hand sensors ,is that the HRI pack ?