Andy Roid - JD dancing is only one very small thing he can do and entices people to get interested in robotics. However, i'd like to introduce the Robot Program. The robot program hosts exercises and activities that even many expert diy users haven't thought of attempting - such as using glyphs to maintain distances, object recognition, programming techniques (loops, conditions, variables) and more. While the robot program may use JD or other revolution robots in examples, it contains valuable lessons, and in my opinion, should not be dismissed by anyone interested in expanding their abilities. And come on... it's fun!

Please visit the robot program to begin making your robot (even diy) do amazing things. It will also help teach programming, which is an ongoing challenge with individuals, including DIY users.

Also, watching the robot program video of teaching JD to dance is a good place to begin learning how to use the Auto Position control. Have fun

FYI, if many of you DIY guys (not singling anyone out so don't get offended) learn how to effectively code (using ez script) you would never be bored or caught in a rut. After all you can't depend on @DJ to spoon feed you forever... Using just the in built controls and and plugins can only get you so far... Learning to code and now you have a box of lego with 10,000 various pieces to build with... Man, ez script is serious powerful. Learn to use it and you can literally create what you want by yourself... My problem personally is I have become lazy and I really need to get my drive to create back. I am certain I will... That's just my 2 cents...

I enjoyed hearing your take on it DJ. I had a fully built Inmoov with untold money invested building it that I basically walked away from because the software available was currently in flux with no documentation. So frustrating. I would have sold my Inmoov in a hot second if I was allowed to. EZR brougt it to life so I am a bit of a fanboy.

As far as an advanced section maybe there isn't really a need for it. Nothing precludes you fro posting a thread in the usual forum and frankly, I don't really see anything there that is that advanced or complex.

What type of advanced DIY stuff are you guys talking about?

Perry - i enjoy hearing stories like that. A lot! Thank you for sharing

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I don't really see anything there that is that advanced or complex. What type of advanced DIY stuff are you guys talking about?

Perhaps I was thinking backwards. It may be that this Forum is just right. Perhaps I should have suggested a different forum to ask for Revolution help and basic problems like "why doesn't my servo move?"

However it really a moot point. Perry's probably right; why not keep everything in one place. No one here is really doing anything that advanced anyway. It's not like we're building a Starship.

As already mentioned I also miss so many individuals that were very active on the forum a few years ago ,I would guess most are working away on their individual projects and don’t post constant updates or progress. Would be nice to know that all are well , What if we had a discussion headed Hello those that would like to reply simply type hello no need to make any comment or add any update.

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@Perry_S... It's absurd to run an inMoov with anything but ez robot... MRL and arduino is a big cluster f*** mess... Even ROS really isn't well suited... If the servos provided precise feedback like dynamixels do then maybe ROS would be an viable option... To me it seems that inMoov (maybe unknowingly) was designed for ez robot software and hardware... To be honest I think Gael himself would switch in a heart beat if he didn't have his MRL friends in tow and to think about...

Ros... who here has managed I make ros do anything?!