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Marten de Groot posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
Hello InMoovers,
I like to include the FSR (Force Sensitive Sensor) to all my finger servo’s. https://learn.adafruit.com/force-sensitive-resistor-fsr For the starter_kit I’ve re-designed some servo adapter things, to make it possible to slide the servo forwards/backwards. Next step, is the position-holder for the FSR.
To get a idea how it looks:…[Read more]
BTW, the setup will be the same like this:
– Alan Timm (@gestalt73) September 16, 2016
First servo slider test run: tomorrow I hope to add the (to big) FSR sensor and see what it will do 🙂 (I’m still waiting for the smaller FSR’s)
hey Marten nice to see you are working on this. can’t really see from the picture how the servo will be able to move. is it mounted on the blue part? but then it would need 2 screw holes on each side in the blue part? and just realize that I do not know what servo make/type you are using.
Hi Juerg,
The servo is mounted with two screws to the blue part. the blue part has the option to slide in the light grey part. Here you will see both parts separated: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d25ghmdlwmo08mn/ServoHolder_Slider.jpg?dl=0
The servo which I’m using, is this…[Read more]
Marten de Groot posted an update 7 years, 5 months ago
Before I can start with my complete InMoov, I need to upgrade my UM2 filament spool-holder. I’ve ordered some COLORFABB_XT spools with 2.2kg filament 🙂 Not sure if XT filament is the right choice for some mechanical parts.
yep… Colorfabb is great stuff, iv tried every brand/type out there ,, i do a lot of printing,,, In Australia i use “Blueprinted” filaments which is pretty good quality for a cheap filament Colorfabb is hard to get here and its bloody expensive.. I only use PLA you would surprised how tough the stuff when printed correctly – you wont have any…[Read more]
Thanks for your information. I get lucky to live in the Netherlands, the shipping costs are free when I order one spool. And with the 2.2kg spools it’s 30% less in price.
I’m sure I need to play with some settings (temps and max speed). I hope to start this evening with some tests 🙂
I’ve used CollorFabb PLA for some time now and this prints…[Read more]
Its worth having a go at trying other other filaments but iv found you really cant beat good quality PLA when its printed correctly,, its hard so its good for gears and moving parts It prints like a dream compered to other filaments,,, and it doesn’t destroy the planet,,, I’v been R&D on 3d printers full-time for about 4 years now, mainly on d…[Read more]
CollorFabb PLA is good material anyway. XT can handle a higher temp when it’s printed, this part is a positive thing if InMoof stays for a long day in sunlight. So maybe I will use XT for some outside parts and all others with PLA 🙂
Marten de Groot posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
The new printed shaft fits well and it looks that it can handle the rotation.
Nice. I am printing up my version now. See my post above.
This is certainly getting along well !! Following your progress from close by, Marten!
So, the new hexagonal shaft / Small_Gear and Servo_adapter files are uploaded 🙂 http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1824042 I will test this soon and will share a video later this week.
Thanx Marteen you are very fast, Great
Haha 🙂 If the time is there, it can be go fast 😉
How about you, any progress with your “Right” hand ?
slow but sure, when I finish it , you will know, Marten 🙂
Alan Timm posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Quick and simple demo of full body animation using a wireless x-y pendant. Lots of changes and stuff to share. I’ll refilm it later on this week when I have the next set of changes complete (with less noise and a clean desk)
rviz running in background displaying robot state. The basic animation is there, still have a fair bit of tuning to get…[Read more]
Looks great. This is a good inspiration
Fantastic Alan… Best realistic movements so far, hands down!… I am working on a new inMoov which I am also planning some sophisticated movement management…
Did you create your own custom ROS package for this? I still use ez robot but would love to move up to ROS as it looks like much more can be done with ROS than either ez robot or MyRobotLab… I dabbled with ROS a while back so maybe it’s about time I have another look…
Hey Richard, thanks!
Each toolkit has it’s own benefits. There’s a nice community built up around InMoov+MRL, so it’s a great way to get started without writing everything from scratch. Another R.S.S.C. club member is building an InMoov using EzRobot, and I think there are some others on the forum as well.
I went with ROS because I wanted to…[Read more]
That’s awesome Alan… Thanks
Great work, superb work full of fluidity,. Gestures follow like water in a river. Friendly Sy.
Looks great!
A very late comment to your great work using ROS in conjonction with InMoov. I had shared your great video on my Google+ page right after you posted it. Thanks for your video, I really enjoyed looking at InMoov moving so gracefully.
Hi Alan Just made first steps with ROS and found the github-links. So I have inmoov_model-master.zip and inmoov_ros-master.zip Can you point me to a tuto where to place the files and probably even make it run?
Hey Juerg, Firstly, follow all the tutorials to install and set up ROS. Then, you should be able to follow the README.md from here: https://github.com/alansrobotlab/inmoov_ros/tree/master
After you get everything set up, you’ll most likely want to run the urdf model in rviz, using this command: roslaunch inmoov_description display.launch…[Read more]
Thanks Alan Started the beginners tutorial and had a look at your linked tuto. As I just recently installed ROS I got the kinetic version. Looks like I have to wait for a fitting Moveit version. But as the package looks rather big and complex I will anyway need to work myself through all the tutorials first.
Yep, I have a new SSD with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and ROS Kinetic waiting for MoveIt to be released. They’re very close to their first release. Until then, you will have some time to familiarize yourself with the core ROS concepts, go through the tutorials, and control the urdf model in rviz.
If you haven’t found it already, Jason has published his…[Read more]
Hi Allen Spent some time to try to make inmoov run with kinetic . Found a few issues with scripts (renamed .py file, missing include vector, boost shortcomings but was finally able to run setup_parameters.py As I run unbunto on my PC in a VirtualBox I assume it is correct that the servobus.launch complains about missing ports. trying to run rviz…[Read more]
Hey juerg,
I haven’t moved everything to ROS Kinetic yet, but I’ll keep an eye out for the issues you’ve shared.
Unfortunately, the glue code in the ROS stack that I’ve published will only work with my robot, but it is a great starting point to integrate ROS into your bot.
You should be able to run the urdf model in rviz, then write python…[Read more]
Nice work Alan,
Any idea when you will be releasing the demo? I’d love to try it out