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.
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@mayaway
What type of drill motors are you using?
I bought six of these on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0057I2Y54/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Just for the record a 1 pound (2.2 kg) spool of 1.75 filament will get you one right thigh. A tad more than KFC. The black is still holding out for joints though.
Funny thing. I can no longer take pics in landscape mode.
Impressive ! Congratulations !
@Perry, I think you have that the wrong way around, it’s 1kg = 2.2 pounds!
Chris.
I'm from the US. We don't profess to be good at the metric system!
I thought the right thing but typed the wrong.
Easily done Perry.
Your Inmoov is look GREAT, that’s a lot of filament to make the legs. I’m must start to print them, but I got side tracked and have started to rebuild my old hexapod with HDD Servos. Well that’s my excuse, but truthfully I think I’m a little apprehensive with how long it’s going to take and the build size!
This guy is intimidating. Luckily right now he has a 10 Gallon beer brew kettle for a right leg so I am not afraid of him attacking me. I still need to weld a new section into the stand to remedy that. Plus I am low on beer. Another spool of hatchbox white shows up tomorrow so the old printer will be huffin and puffin through the weekend to make the right calf and foot.