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My knowledge on mechanics is ... between void and very rudimentary and on electronics they are basic enough. But at least on software development they are good enough. With this knowledge an easy start point were the kits that include the electronic and mechanical parts ready for use.
The two kits that nowadays I am using are:
AntOne, the ant one, is my first insect using Bioloid.
Now the version 2.0 have some minor cosntruction changes but a big software difference. It's controlled with a PC based C# program which bring "life" to AntOne, sending messages by bluetooth to an BT-serial adapter connecte to the CM-5
January 14 2008
AntOne, the ant one, is my first insect using Bioloid.
After a few first tests programming the CM-5 microcontroller in C (and "a little" of C ++)
The first video of the tests:
Some information about our neighbors or flat companion:
Do you feel itchy all over? ;)
But there are other news...
using Acer Aspire One and it's webcam I can use ARToolkit to detect some marks to know its position.
An interesting matter is how to achieve that a robot moves inside a building from a determined point to other one.
I have chosen two possibilities:
a)The simplest and limited, by means of two sensors of distances for ultrasounds
b) Less simple but more interesting, a video camera and ARToolkit, an example would be SIGNPOST
Based on a design like this one:
Or this one, that looks more interesting:
For NXT, LeJOS and NBC. For PC, C#
For Bioloid, C++ and WxWidgets or FLTK, that seems better, but I only have used it a few hours
Linux FTDI driver, latency 31ms querying a position of 16 AX12+. And about 240ms by ttyUSBx.
More information at Programming Bioloid
Acceleration/tilt sensor
Bioloid Comprehensive kit + USB2Dynamixel
Bluetooth BlueConsole (out of business, BT<->serial).
