Hello all, I wanted to start my own thread to discuss my Inmoov and my conversion to EZ Robot. I appreciate all the work by the MRL guys but I struggle with it. I am indebted to the help they gave me but I needed something a little more along in development with some documentation.
So here is my guy. Pretty standard build as far as inmoov's go.
Here's the back. All the standard inmoov components. Dual 256 Megas, Nervo boards USB hub, Power supplys etc.
So the tear down begins. I need to clean up that wiring too. What a rats nest!
I just received my EZR controller and camera so I have no idea how to program it yet. I figured I would at least try to set up a GUI that allows me to manually move the servos like the MRL swing GUI. Five or six hours later and a few tutorials and I have this three screen model. I was easily able to add way more than basic servo control.
Here is the main control screen. Contains the face tracking speech functions and a custom Pandorabot for AI. Some MS cognitive stuff as well.
Here is the second screen. Head functions with a mouth control servo, neck, torso, and the 2 neopixel rings I have.
Third screen is for the arms and hands
So now I pretty much have all the same functionality I had in MRL give or take. I am pretty sure I am not doing this entirely correctly but it will come with time. Need to get into the scripting. I guess there are some tutorials to watch. So far my experience has been pretty good and in a day eclipsed my MRL progress of the last 6 months.
I'll update this thread with my progress and appreciate any feedback.
Other robots from Synthiam community
Animator28's AVA (Advanced Visual Android)
Rich's Project Hearoid.
Not yet Bob, I'm going to try it whole first. I think it just may barely fit. Otherwise it will have to be cut. I was playing around with a cut version that I added flanges to. If this gives me problems I will finish it off.
Ah , did not know about the legs. Sweet, had a look and I can print the parts at full size.
@Perry_s, I think a lot of people will be looking for a 2 or 3 part version of those parts.
I was thinking something like this. The tabs could be for gluing or bolting. I am not sure if this interferes with anything though.
Looks good, I can print that part. It's this one that is too big.
Yeah, we can split that easy. Any slick ideas on how you would want to attach them afterwards. I can put that in there. I guess in the spirit of inmoov I could put in the dovetails but those damn things I tell ya. Will 2 parts work? Are you constrained in X Y, or Z? hate to go to 4 as I need no reason to print parts that small. Preferably a clean spit with some means of attaching afterwards.
I haven't started to print them yet Perry, as you have said there going to be long prints, and I don't think the top thigh part will fit, I will need to split it into two parts.
Are you going to use the 10mm rods to support the legs or add a rolling poll?
I think I will go for the 10mm rods inside, for me the rolling poll seems to defect the objective of having legs, but I assume using the rolling poll you will be able to move the inmoov, and not have to fix the feet to a platform?
I don't think Gael has mentioned the length of the 10mm rod needed, but I suppose that can be figured out once a complete leg is printed.
Thanks for sharing your prints so far, keep us updated!
Cheers Chris.
I take it these legs don't have any drive system. They are just for looks. (InMoov statue...) Gael has breached his initial 12 cm3 Build Space for the InMoov. Rats. My idea was motion first, then covers to make them pretty...