MicroRaptor Progress

Germán Arduino garduino at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 14:31:51 UTC 2007


Really fantastic work!

But let me warn: "You will not be able to avoid that I ask you about
using Squeak in such sort of applications in the future"  :)

Cheers.
gsa.

2007/2/12, Jon Hylands <jon at huv.com>:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thought it was about time to post a progress update on my Squeak-powered
> biped robot, MicroRaptor.
>
> http://www.bioloid.info/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=MicroRaptor
>
> Specifically, you may want to look at the Screenshots page, and of course
> the Movies page is interesting.
>
> The brain is running on my laptop. Eventually (once the embedded code gets
> done) the robot will have a wifi interface, and true wireless operation
> will be possible. The hardware interface has a pluggable component which
> allows me to choose either a socket connection or a serial port.
>
> I have another UI that I built first, which gives you more control over the
> various (many) parameters each servo has:
>
> http://www.huv.com/blog/uploaded_images/Squeak-Admin-01-704502.PNG
>
> There are a few other interesting movies that may be of interest:
>
> Controlling an AX-12 (the servo used) from the above GUI:
> http://www.bioloid.info/tiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=45
>
> Watching how torque feedback works:
> http://www.bioloid.info/tiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=49
>
> Later,
> Jon
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>    Jon Hylands      Jon at huv.com      http://www.huv.com/jon
>
>   Project: Micro Raptor (Small Biped Velociraptor Robot)
>            http://www.huv.com/blog
>
>


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