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
Steve's Mini 6 Fabricated Robot
Kenny's Aiwabot
LOL - nice MST3k reference
Perry, that is so good, very clever and very funny at the same time
Now that the head is independent and working I started to write some routines to make the guy look like he was just hanging out, not doing much. The movements are random. Here is a short clip.
That's good movement Perry. Can you share you snipit of code? I'd like to make it part of T-One.
Perry how is the mouth working since your change. does it close after speaking and is it quiet compared to the original? confused
@3dprinterguy I'll post my code soon. It will just be a rev on my Inmoov project that is alread in the app store
@nallycat - Mouth works great. I use rubber bands to keep the mouth closed so the servo cam only has to overcome those to open it. That way it is always aligned and closed. It is very quiet. Only slight servo noise.
Hi Perry, You mentioned that you downloaded an installed program A B, did you get that working with ARC?
@danf Hi, I got it operating but never did get it integrated into EZR. Not that it cannot be done, more a testament to my lack of programming expertise.