They are not ready yet…. When they are I am sure Gael will let us know….

Nice work,,,, are the -Mecanum Wheels- on the other side any good..?- I v seen them on other projects and was wondering are they an improvement over the wheel or do they just look really cool,,,,,

BTW, the setup will be the same like this:

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you might have better sources for IR sensors – my own experiments and results are rather poor. Another issue might be integrating the sensors result into the control loop. I think without an optical identification of the part you want to grab you won’t be able to gain much. Another issue is the current joint angels of your finger parts. These…[Read more]

Depends on if your happy with fingers that can move buts that all they can do,,, the sensors allow the fingers to realise when the have touch an object and stop the servos from moving any further,, this allows Inmoov to pick up objects that have different sizes/shapes,,- now this all done with the software,,, so this is where the guys over at…[Read more]

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]

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!

Thanx Marteen you are very fast, Great

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]

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…

Great work, superb work full of fluidity,. Gestures follow like water in a river.
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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?

Nice work Alan,

Any idea when you will be releasing the demo? I’d love to try it out

Great, infill 90% surely will give it enough strength

Really Fantastic, I’m “hands on it” , and ready to upgrade my inmoov’s right hand

That is awesome. No tensioning spring is the best feature! I guess you could add a tension spring like you had in your single finger tutorial.
I think this is pretty innovative which begs the question what does the rest of your bot look like?

Very nice Marten!
It’s very interesting to see how you managed the wrist servo, I guess we could add a second servo for wrist abduction. That would be a great extra feature. (Hand Mini breakout Nervo Boards and Nervo boards would need to be transformed and all scripts and gestures as well though…)
Will you test it running continuously full 10…[Read more]

Very nice work. I’m waiting to see the fingers and wrist working together. Fantastic

Nice, now it works

I wish that works, it’s a great Idea

Hello Marten. I came to that exact same conclusion last night while assembling my tendons. They have been very finicky and I am not confident the spring system will hold up. The wrist rotation really plays with the tensions and geometries. I was thinking of a system where the lines ran through the centerline of the wrist. The servo can be moved…[Read more]

Awesome Marten… going to try these servo pulleys with my new inMoov I am currently building… good work man…

Great Marten! I want to see when the pulley is set in the servo bed how the servos are acting. As I said in our email exchange, I have burned so many MG996 and MG995, that I do not trust those servos anymore. I never, yet burned a HK15298.
Initially when I created the pulley and the servo bed it was for to solve a restriction rotation of 90…[Read more]

Looks great. Exciting. what pulley designs are you using?

They may save weight but they may not be strong enough for the inMoov hand… The hand is not the same as the finger starter. There is a lot more friction on the push/pull finger mechanisms. The servos need to work much harder than the simple finger kit… However, let us know if they work because less weigh is always welcome…

I will use your idea in my Inmoov Rigth Hamd

I want to test these pulleys for sure! I’m guessing it will be also okay for our servos HK 15298 which have a restriction from 0 to 90 degrees.

Wouuii video great Martens.Did you use your carbon filament?

Very cool Marten! Once the finger is assembled, a little video will be nice to see!

when trying to reduce the forarms weight – did you experiment with getting less weight from the printed parts too? Just had a chance to look at a fiber enforced part at an exhibition. It had a thin layer of fiber on top and bottom of the part (needs 2 extruders) but showed impressing strenght.

Proof-of-concept for adding force control/feedback to Servos using the InMoov Finger Starter.

Modified the kit to accept an FSR. The servo is modified and mounted that it can slide a bit in the direction of force. As the finger tightens, it forces the servo case against the FSR, which is then read. Basic force control written in Arduino as proof…[Read more]

simply fantastic! Looks very responsive. Will you share more details about it and the code to run it? As you say it’s controlled by the arduino some more cables to route to the hand or are you thinking about a separate nano controlling each hand?

Great project Alan!!
As mentionned Joel had done a great research on the hall effect sensors. The FSR are not very responsive unless pressure is applied. How did you manage to fix the two kapton copper wiring? Won’t they brake/tear after long term running?

I hadn’t seen this, but there’s a guy out there by the name of Clement Vella who has also worked out a solution using FSRs, not sure if they’re hand made or not, but he a sensor for each direction of force and integrated it into the pulley.

His video also confirms one of my questions, that maybe applying PID to the control code may work better…[Read more]

Hey Marten, that seems like a great modification. I have a question if you have a moment, since you designed the nerv boards. I have one servo (Rt arm omoplate), which when connected to the nervo board, gets hot and eventually burns when connected to the nervo board. The servo works just fine on a tester etc. I have seen in the tutorial, the…[Read more]

Hello Marten,
Very nice module for a Finger Starter!!!
There is no doubt that the servo of 2,5kg will work because even a small SG92R works. With the Finger Starter there isn’t much friction. But such servo will burn for sure if used in the hand. The friction is far greater in many ways in the hand, that is the reason even a MG996 of 12kg Torque…[Read more]

Hey Marten!
Great pictures, I hope the mini makerfaire was a lot of fun!!

Very interesting Markus, I’m surprised how well the mini joysticks + remote are reliable to control the arms and hands.

Great Markus!! This is cool to be able to control the arms gestures so easily.
Once in position, can you still “capture the gestures” by voice to compile them later into one gesture?

Hi Robyn,
Congratulations for your record !!!
Say Hello to Markus for me 😉

Looks great Markus, where did you get the battery cover panel from?