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It has the wrong kind of motors to be interesting. Servos are a dead end, imo. The interesting robot projects now are the ones embracing brushless motors with encoders and dynamic walking gaits. It’s the same components that are used in drones.
Could you provide some examples of these projects?
https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io
It has the wrong kind of motors to be interesting. Servos are a dead end, imo. The interesting robot projects now are the ones embracing brushless motors with encoders and dynamic walking gaits. It’s the same components that are used in drones.
It has the wrong kind of motors to be interesting. Servos are a dead end, imo. The interesting robot projects now are the ones embracing brushless motors with encoders and dynamic walking gaits. It’s the same components that are used in drones.
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I'm interested in Robotics (I made a simple ping-pong ball collector a while back https://sendcat.com/dl/D9DI15MAOjhKMFJYLJLADj64ywyU2qGWaKMSl... ). Are there places I should go or things I should read to find out more about the latest developments in robotics in general, or the use of brushless motors with encoders/dynamic walking gaits specifically?
Nice build :) Have you checked out EasyEDA + jlcpcb? It can improve the electronics aspects of robot projects. I searched a bit now to see if any new projects have shown up. Came across this one: https://hackaday.io/project/167845-mjbots-quad Could maybe be interesting, but I haven't looked into it. Here is a chinese motor manufacturer that makes more sane motors: http://www.gyems.cn/product.html Getting a drone or g…
Thanks! Yeah, the electronics is a bit gross. This build was probably 6 years ago perhaps? I got it to the point that it worked and then it was kinda "done" and all that was left was polish, but it was really a toy so there wasn't much point and I left it.
Planning on building something for slug and snail control (NW UK, they can be a problem), and cat/badger/squirrel scaring in my garden (they dig up things). Will likely make use of PCBs with this so will check out the links.
> Here is a chinese motor manufacturer that makes more sane motors: http://www.gyems.cn/product.html
So I did some digging and found this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyentificTube/videos
He does a some testing of some Turnigy motors (a bit like this: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-aerodrive-sk3-6374-149kv..., there's a whole range) which looked cool, and he was using an odrive controller https://odriverobotics.com/ which also looked pretty handy, so there's some stuff to check out there, but he also did some tests with some gyems motors and they looked great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQJeg87ff8
> dynamic walking systems are more complex
Given the speed of slugs and snails I am going to probably go for a less dynamic movement style. Less force, smaller motors, longer battery life. Though I like the idea of trying to program dynamic movement. The physical build for my more static movement style shouldn't be too hard to do.
> https://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/
Thanks, this is great!
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They aren’t sexy, isn’t that it — you want a sexy robot and RC servos don’t cut it
It's not that rc-servos are not sexy. It't that they suck. For a number of specific reasons well listed in other posts here. RC-servos are very cheap and very easy to use, so there are many projects using them. But there is no way to make a good robot out of them. It's a local maximum.