
Ellis
I don't think this has been discussed before and I hope I can explain it correctly.
I have a Robot with two arms with 6 servo's each. I use Auto Position all the time to accomplish actions when called upon. Auto-Position works like magic. What I want to do is physically take my robot arm and hold it in the position I want and save that position as a frame. I think this might be possible by reading the each servo's pots location and saving them as a frame. It would be easier and quicker to create frames if this was possible. Can it be done as I have explained.
It would be like a stop motion snapshot that can be saved as a frame.
I agree with you about each servo not having a feedback. What I am trying to say is that according to my understanding, a servo receives a potentiometer resistance number to let it know where to go to. It is always going to a different ohm on the servo to move to a position. Why wouldn't it be possible to read that potentiometer reading on the servo. Like you said it may have no way to read that but I know when a location is requested the servo receives the ohm reading so it can know which way to move and know when it reaches its desired location.
It may be not available now but it seems that future servo's could be made that would be able to feed back their location. Maybe an external pot add on.
This will give you a value of 1 - 255... Using the 'map' script function you can convert this value to a servo position of 1 - 180
You could write a plugin for the EZ-B and do this directly. Second hand Meccanoids are on ebay etc for really cheap and make a great full size robot. You could have two, move one and the other one could mimic its moves.
I just wanted to tell you that your Ez-Robot Hd servos are the best of their type anywhere. They are awesome.
Any thought of making stronger servos for larger robots. Also make a servo with potentiometer feedback as discussed above. Thanks for all you are doing.
If you then lay-out a next revision of the controller board so it has one analog pin next to each servo pin, you can use a 4 pin connector and you are all set. The controller would be remain compatible with other servos, but you'd have a nice differentiator for your own servo's (they already appear to be quite good from what I hear, and I will try them soon, but being good is not a "checkbox feature", where as having positional feedback is).