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When I start the camera of my Roli, it produces some noise (rattling), when I stop it the noise disappears. Are there any movable parts inside the camera bit?
What could be wrong?
Also the camera does not always have the proper network address. I have to adjust the robot address whenever it connects to my WLAN (client mode), and until the recent update the camera address followed what I entered in the Connection window. But since the update to 2015.02.06.00 (firmware v16.6) I observed both the noise and the lack of address synchronization.
@Doombot,
Nice to see you back. where have you been?!
Alan
Glad to see members classifying this thread for what is really going on in it.
@thetechguru Man, IKON has been taking up all of my time, I have so many back orders so I made a decision to take care of that. You think EZ Robot customers get angry (for not getting their orders in time), but damn! I'm still not done, but it's under control sir...
See my new little pet project Dirgebot just posted pics...
I promise not to respond further to unrelated answers. Even if I'm getting quite angry when I'm presented with pictures of screwdrivers, when I ask for what exact size I should order for disassembling the camera case :-(
Remains one key question about "axis". Rich said:
and bborastero said: No question that the X axis usually is the horizontal axis in 2D. Reviewing the Roli design the "Neck horizontal" servo has its axis in horizontal direction. But when the camera rotates about this horizontal axis, it IMO does tilt (up/down), not pan (left/right), as bborastero says, in contrast to what Rich says. Can somebody help me out of this confusion?No, the X axis (pan) rotational servo pans left and right. If your Y axis (tilt) lever servo is tilted up or down, then I guess you could say that the pan is really going up down or at an angle, but it is left/right in relation to the neck.
Alan
The servo that is plugged into D09 is for up and down or Y axis.
The servo that is plugged into D10 is for the X axis.
This is from the Example Project for Roli. Make sure your servos are plugged into these ports. The servo that is in D09 will be the servo with the arm connected the gear and to the opposite side of the servo from the gear. The servo in D10 will be the servo that has the square horn attached to the gear of the servo.
Using the example you would specify the X axis in the servo as D10 and the Y axis servo as D09 in the camera control configuration.
From there, you would set horizontal steps to 3 and vertical steps to 2. Check the check box that says Enable servo tracking and click save.
From there, click Tracking at the top of the Camera Control. Click the Face option and then click Device at the top of the Camera Control. The robot will start tracking your face.
This will show you the X and Y axis servos working. Position your face in front of the camera. Your face will show up in the Camera control Move your face to the left or right and you will see the X axis servo turn to track your face. Move your face up or down to have it track your face using the Y axis servo. Move your face up and to the right and both the X and Y axis servos will be working to track your face. This will help you see what is meant by X Axis or Horizontal and Y Axis or Vertical.
@Rich ...Here is a better one... Trying to explain...