Mickey666Maus
Resolved by Steve G!
Hey guys, I just put together my first robot using Lego Technic and some Tower Pro 9g Micro Servos... This worked perfect as a trial and error solution because the servos are exactly fitting into the Lego parts and the material is light enough to be driven by those weak servos!
It is kind of a wobbly assembly but it is good for testing and quit forgiving when it comes to parts bumping together head-on!
Sooooo my question is... I experience very jerky movement at some points in my animation. Most transitions are smooth but every now and then there is erratic movement, which seems to disappear if I notch up the power send to the EZ-B from 7.4Volts to about 9Volts!
Is this a proper solution or will this damage the board? I am also using a very small and cheap 1.5A Power Supply, should I switch to a bigger one so the servos are being supported better?
Let me know so I don't damage my board!
OK, lets see if I can get this done....but I guess I should! I guess a fixed ip for the router necessary otherwise I would have to redo the whole thing daily right? How would I get to have my EZ-B set to a fixed ip address?
You would do this by assigning a static DHCP lease to the mac address of the EZ-B or any other device that needed a consistent IP in your router.
I am on it guys...thanks for the info, it's a bit messy so I hope I will not get too confused!
If you get stuck, post the make and model of your router and I'll find an online manual and provide more detailed instructions. I have been throwing out quick answers to guide you in the right direction because I have a lot to get done today, but I could sit down this evening and give more detailed instructions if you can't make it work.
Alan
It seems not to be working....I put a portforwarding into my router for a http-server to my laptop and to the laptops ip, port 80! TCP!
If I put this into my browser on my laptop or my phone
http://192.168.178.94:80//Exec?password=admin&script=Servo(D23,90)
it works and moves the servo, but the DO button does not work!
SORRRRYYYY.....It works, I forgot that I had to put the public ip into the code of the DO button!
Thanks for your help! Now I can tweak my IFTTT stuff and make the robot correspond!
AWESOME!
Thanks Alan, this has been great help! I saw you being involved in some questions about IFTTT in other discussions here on the forum, but those did not cover getting it connected to the EZ-Bs web server....
Thanks you so much for responding so quickly although you are having stuff to do, I really appreciate it!
Cool! Be aware that your public IP will probably change if your router reboots. You can sign up for a service like http://dyn.com/dns/ that gives your ip address a name (and you run a client on the pc that keepz the service up to date). Dyndns used to free but is now $40/year. There may still be free services. I use zoneedit, but I have my own domain, and it is not as simple to set up and manage. I think new accounts are also not free anymore.
Alan