Just got my EZ-B today, and I hit the ground running:) This is my robophilo robot. He's the cheapest 20 DOF robot on the market. PHILO stands for "Programmable Humanoid In Lifelike Operation". I Think the creators may have overlooked the cryptic acronym lol. I just set up the AutoPosition with his first movement. I cant believe how easy this is, I got him to this point in just a couple hours:) These are all standard servos, but with all of them running off the EZ-B, the regulators make some serious heat. Even had a couple brownouts. For now I'm using a 12v 3A power supply. The onboard battery is a 2 cell 750mah Li-po (8A continuous 15A max heli batteries lol) that I haven't tried yet.The next step is to give the servos external power, I don't want the EZ-B carrying all that juice:) Here's a short video and some pictures:)
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Just got around to installing the cameraI love the Cowboy Bebop background... that and your camera angle adds to Phil's majestic pose
I love your bot kenny. Your one of the first members to tinker with bipeds and the ezb
. If you dont mind sharing a secret or two .... what voltage are you running on your servos and what brand and torque rating are they? Thanks I look forward to watching your progress! - Josh S.
Thanks Josh
Its mostly standard generic futaba s3003's, 5v 42oz in. The ankle toe up/down servos are supposed to be hi torque, don't know the specs on those. I really need to run external power to the servos with a 6v regulator to get a lil more torque. I need that power to get it to walk right lol
I've almost got the walking thing figured out. This takes lots of balance and strong servos...neither of which I have lol
I'm gonna replace all the servos with Hitec HS-430BH Standard Deluxe BB HV servos. 70 oz in, and running straight off the battery, no regulator. That's about a 30% increase in torque
He is walking better than my first humanoid. I am sure with the new servos and some work you will get him walking all over the place.
Hooray for speech recognition
I set up some simple commands, added two servospeed init scripts(move fast, move slow), then added an auto connect script. So yeah, from power up to shutdown, my mouse is officially just for show lolCool work!