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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..
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
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yeach confused mostly. ps love to see your bioloids one day.
@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.
sudo am not the one whit the hovis ,thats morbeious
looking forwart to see your showcase.
@nomad
don't worry, I'm adressing morbeious
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!
@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