Control AX-12 with Visual Basic (VBA or Excel)

[Boyz]

Wow this is amazing!

VanHelsing I want to do something similar to this but to have the image taken from a webcam. I have no clue as how to transform the image to something the arm can plot. Can you help break down the steps of how you did it ( I'm a complete idiot when it come to excel) or point me to reference literature to do this.

Thanks,
Boyz

[billyzelsnack]

Thanks for bringing this thread back to life. It was posted well before I got my Bioloid and I guess I didn't browse back enough to find it.

Very inspiring.

[roycepipkins]

Yes, this is an inspiring thread. I wondered if the repeatability of the servos were good enough for plotting. This makes me want to take a crack at a PCB plotting.

[taiowa]

Hello everybody

Got my bioloid last friday and after trying couple of the basic robots from the guidebook I wanted to try something different before building the humanoid. So I decided to build a plotter similar of VanHelsings but a using Java as control language.

I builded my plotter with longer arm for better reach, which actually was a bad design decision because longer equals wobblier.

I used manage mode and swr commands to drive the plotter just like VanHelsing.

First I drawed the duck, but drawing rasterized image took quite long and I had no idea howto create those plotting commands from other normal images. I decided to try to draw vector graphics which are defined by drawing paths by default. I hacked Batis svg graphics libraries to my plotter code and was able to draw pictures straight from .svg format images.

Here is a video of the plotter in action.

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Couple of images:
The quality of the drawings was actually quite bad. The repeatibility of the drawings is still quite good. The butterfly outline is drawed twice and the plotter has done identical jerks and twists on both runs.


Original butterfly image http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/butterfly/butterfly.svg

[billyzelsnack]

Excellent work. You did this in a week of getting your Bioloid! Impressive.

I'm also impressed that it looks that good considering how long the arm is. That's a lot of leverage for those first two poor little servos!

[MOHIT JINDAL]

Can you share that VB CODE with me. I want to control all 18 Ax12 dynamixels with pc using Usb2Dynamixel

[harboot]

every body.. help meee..
iam very interest to this project.

i try to run vanhelsing project..
i have problem with my mscomm

"Can't exit design mode because Control MSComm1 can not be created"


i have installed my VB and my mscomm is work,
but it can't run in excel,,, why???????


(sorry. iam newbie)

[haratron]

Has anyone tried this with CM-510?
I'm getting some gibberish characters and Bad Command at the end when I execute the controls (by clicking the buttons I mean).