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A pair of students in one of my Robotics classes has problems loading up a previously working JD Profile. I took the JD to my computer and tried loading my JD Profile. After 2 tries, it worked on my PC. I then took JD back to their PC and it worked for my JD Profile after 3 tries. This was yesterday. Today, when they tried to use JD, the profile would not load. I took JD back to my PC and tried. It would not work. Something strange is happening. I just don't know what it could be. I have uploaded the different profiles being used. My profile is "JD-Profile-TayZack." It worked when theirs wouldn't. Now it doesn't work either.
Okay - keep me in the loop. You got us puzzled
I had zero luck with JD's profile today. I disconnected and reconnected the connectors for JD's shoulders, which is where the profile has the biggest problem. I tried creating a new project and then attempted to create a new profile, but anytime I connected JD, its shoulders always snapped to a horizontal position. When I attempt to set JD's shoulders to a vertical position, the values got large (>90) and to a point where the servo did not move closer to vertical. This did not seem right, so I did not bother saving any new profiles. I also did a hard reset of EZ-B, but that did not help.
I have attached a picture of JD when it connects. As you will notice, the shoulders are horizontal. Since I cannot fine tune the shoulders enough to get them to a vertical state (with what I have worked with thus far), is there something else that I might be able to try?
Servo profile should only be used for a couple of degrees at the most. If you need to adjust by 90 degrees, the arms are connected incorrectly.
Remove the arm at the shoulder, turn 90 degrees, and reconnect the clip and play connector.
Alan
D'oh! Something so simple that slipped by me. Thanks Alan.
I do still have problems with consistently connecting to JD and loading its profile. This occurred more often on one of the classroom PCs. On my PC this happens only occasionally. Since the students are now working with Roli, I am not as concerned with the JD problem anymore. The horizontal shoulders was the real worry. I will consider this problem resolved.