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Hovis Eco Users

Gang,

I have a Hovis ECO, Mini Darwin, and BIOLOID Premium Robot Kit, I started with playing with Robotics back in the 80's with a HeathKit Hero..

I was wondering if anyone else in the group has the Hovis, and their thoughts.. its the only bot i have that I haven't found many or if any other owners of.. lol.. its a nice bot.. my plans are to replace the brain with Ez-bot 4..:D

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#9  

didn't some other guy say these servos have a 4 pin input? These should work with ARC just fine, but you wont get info from the servo. It'll just work like a standard hobby servo instead of sending info to the controller like a normal hovis servo. However, DYNAMIXELS use a 3 pin input. Once the variable manager is fixed, these would be a better option than the hovis since they send and receive info all from the same one signal wire. Still, these should be just fine, I think nomad is just a little confused:D

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#10  

sudo v2

yeach confused mostly. ps love to see your bioloids one day.

#11  

@nomad

I'm actually planning on putting up a showcase for the updated shogun later;)

also, morbeious - you could actually get the EZB to recieve servo info from the Hovis, but it would have to take up an extra signal port on another pinout. I don't know if you'd want to go though all that trouble to get mostly useless info, however.

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#12  

sudo am not the one whit the hovis ,thats morbeious

looking forwart to see your showcase.

#13  

@nomad

don't worry, I'm adressing morbeious:D

#14  

I got you @Sudo.. and don't worry @Nomad.. I'm not confused, I figured I could do it unless there was somthing non-standard about the EZb4.. which i didn't think it was.. so all is good.. Since I've received my Dev kit.. I've been playing around with a few things.. I also have a few RS v2 and RSMedia's laying around to fool with, which maybe more of a challenge hacking than the Hovis.. I'm looking forward to a challenge.. lol My FrankinBot will LIVE!

#15  

@Morbeious

I don't think the robosapien IR control works anymore, but I'm sure you could make it work by directly controlling the motors in sone way - dont quote me on that one though

P.S - don't hack the RS media! I sold one on ebay for 700 bucks out of box missing the software. Apparently they're incredibly rare. Just thought I would let you know, 700$ is alot of ez-bits;)