
jeff7457
USA
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I am building my first bot. Wish me luck. Lol. I have a T-hex 3 DOF chassis with EZ-Robots HDD servos and plan to use the EZ-B as the controller. I have the EZ-B v4/2 Developer Kit on the way. Will the EZ-B be able to handle the current draw of the 6 additional servos? I am no stranger to RC or drones and thought this would be a challenging project.
Thanks,
Jeff
a powerful low-budget computer and W-LAN Connection make sure that all work perfectly.
I built a Hexapod called Ziggy’ with 3 DOF with 20 servos in total counting the head movement Servos.
You do need a good battery, it’s a heavy current drain on the battery. I have two one for the EB-Z controller and the other for the Servos.
See my posting I did a while ago:
http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/Thread?threadId=10864
Enjoy your build and working with the EB-Z controllers, there GREAT!
I have lipo batteries and chargers that I use for my drones so I am familiar with batteries. I have a laptop, iPad, and Android tablet to utilize for this project.
cem
I have seen your post on Ziggy and that is why I picked up the T-hex. I also plan to run a dual battery setup in hope of preventing controller brownouts. I also plan on putting the camera on a pan/tilt set up. Looking forward to using the EZ-B controller. Seemed like the best solution for a beginner. I also am planning to build an R2D2.
Right now I just want to get it up and running. Learn about the EZ-B controller and make it walk smoothly. Then I would like to add a joystick so I could allow others to control it without handing them my phone or tablet.
rz90208
Looks nice. Sounds like a good plan. Look forward to seeing it.
But once I used separate power for the Arduino it worked nice. but did not have much for control. forward back rotate left and rotate right and that was a wired controller. But now if I would redo it with the HDD servos and the EZB, and a few sensors, I could take over the world!
Looking good, have fun creating the Gaits. It took me quite a lots of hours using Auto Position to do this, a lot of fine tuning to get the legs in sync.
The fastest gait is the tripod’ gait, but I do like the other two the ripple’ and wave’ gaits.
Looking forwards in seeing the video.
The Auto Position control has quite a bit of documentation to get you started. Check it out here: http://www.ez-robot.com/Tutorials/Help.aspx?id=180