Anybody still using their Philo?

[RiffRaff]

Anybody? Hello? Was that an echo?

[trey3670]

I feel your pain bro,mine is just sitting there,considering selling it.

[RiffRaff]

Why has it lost it's luster? You guys seemed so excited about it last year, judging by your posts.

[trey3670]

well I got a bioloid shortly after and then life happens,recently got it back out though,jus gotta get the software re installed.

[RiffRaff]

hey, cool. well then, maybe you could help me out with something since Robobrothers doesn't answer my email... I'm not able to fine tune my robot. I was able to tune the arms after assembly, and the software seems to know the robot is there... it says it connects and disconnects, but I am not able to make the shoulder move so that I can set the fine tuning.

[Gort]

Sounds like bad news to me! The economy may be causing problems for the Robobrothers?

[RiffRaff]

Sounds like bad news to me! The economy may be causing problems for the Robobrothers?

I don't know, but they pulled down their faq and forum, so I'm looking for someone to tell me what I'm missing in trying to fine tune my bot.

[RKM83]

Hey RiffRaff-

You should try robobrothers.com, site is up and running including the forum and FAQ.

[trey3670]

hey, cool. well then, maybe you could help me out with something since Robobrothers doesn't answer my email... I'm not able to fine tune my robot. I was able to tune the arms after assembly, and the software seems to know the robot is there... it says it connects and disconnects, but I am not able to make the shoulder move so that I can set the fine tuning.

have you loaded any of the motion files on it? is it the whole left arm or just one servo?

[RiffRaff]

I haven't tried loading anything other than the original tuning files for use during assembly. Do I need to upload a motion file for the fine tuning process? My understanding was that you needed to do the fine tuning first, and save that file for the microcontroller to have a reference point when using the motion files.

I can't get any of the servos to move from the fine tuning screen.

[trey3670]

seems like I had this same problem,you get to the fine tuning screen and none of the servos respond,it has been over a year but I think I solved it by going back and loading the load philo see page 36 here,lets go from there.

[RiffRaff]

seems like I had this same problem,you get to the fine tuning screen and none of the servos respond,it has been over a year but I think I solved it by going back and loading the load philo see page 36 here,lets go from there.

Thanks, Trey. I hadn't thought of going back to the beginning, but I'll give it a try. I've got a busy weekend ahead, so it may have to wait until next week.

Riff

[RiffRaff]

Well, I can load the philo hex file just fine, after setting com1, then I can startup loadphilo and open philo-motion, it connects and disconnects fine, but still no movement on the fine tuning screen- or anywhere else for that matter.

[RiffRaff]

RKM83... thanks!

[Gort]

Did you get your RoboPhilo to work?