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

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   Jon Hylands      Jon at huv.com      http://www.huv.com/jon

  Project: Micro Raptor (Small Biped Velociraptor Robot)
           http://www.huv.com/blog