Bioloid Premium Kit - Construction Blog (v0.1)

[Khashi.E]

I'm 100% sure about it, I asked Robotis for that and they said an upgrade kit will be arrive as a same time with premium kit and it makes comprehensive alike premium kit. it has anything that is not include comp. kit

[Bullit]

The new CM-510 is a atmega256 I believe. It holds twice as many motion pages as the old cm-5.

[siempre.aprendiendo]

1. All three IR sensors have the same range?, from milimeters upto a range, in this case, of 80cm.

there are 2 types of ir sensors the one in the chest and the small ones in the legs/arms which i assume are similar to the ones used with AX-S1. no further info yet.

2. Do you know which are finally the AX-S20 sensor components? Magnetics or gyros?

no. seems like the magnetic sonsor is replaced due to technical issues

3. Could the connection for the IR Receiver/Zigbee receiver be used as a communication line? CM-510<->Arduino, for example.

the comms is done via Ir or Zigbee utilizing the 2nd UART on the atmega128 of the controler. if you want to put arduino connected to that serial, you can do it. there's a new miniature linux board we are about to stock that makes it easy to attach any PC USB deviceto the robot including wifi and webcam.


Latest from Robotis is that the new boxes may not be shipped out in time to guarantee that they sit all wrapped up nicely under the Christmas tree. But if you are ok to receive it somewhere between the 20th and 27th of Dec then you will enjoy the kit during the end-of-year holiday. we will receive the shipment on the "second half" of December.

Thank you very much for the info, Limor

[Goldrake]

I'm 100% sure about it, I asked Robotis for that and they said an upgrade kit will be arrive as a same time with premium kit and it makes comprehensive alike premium kit. it has anything that is not include comp. kit

So there will be also the new cm-510?
I was thinking about buying the usb2dynamixel but if there will be it in the kit and the kit will be avaible next month i think i'll wait because it costs about 50€. Wha do you think?

thank you

[Khashi.E]

I'm 100% sure about it, I asked Robotis for that and they said an upgrade kit will be arrive as a same time with premium kit and it makes comprehensive alike premium kit. it has anything that is not include comp. kit

So there will be also the new cm-510?
I was thinking about buying the usb2dynamixel but if there will be it in the kit and the kit will be available next month i think i'll wait because it costs about 50€. What do you think?

thank you

premium kit and upgrade kit will be arrive this month, so don't hurry for buying usb2dxl. it has cm-510 actually but not sure about usb2dxl. I think it's better if you wait until upgrade kit released, then if it doesn't have usb2dxl, buy it separately.

[Goldrake]

There is any indications (also rumors) about prices of the kit and the upgrade kit?

[limor]

We were informed today that Robotis will be sending us a shipment of premium and upgrade kits in time for us to guarantee pre-Christmas delivery.

The moment they give us the final pricing we will make the kits available for pre-order.

From conversations I had with Robotis few months ago about the upgrade kit, I recall they said something about pricing it at under half the cost of a Comprehensive kit.

I can try and guess the pricing of the Premium kit. Looking at robotis.com Korean web shop, the Premium kit is already for sale. In fact the first few hundred Premiums have begun selling in Korea recently. The Premium kit price is 990000 compared to 770000 for the Comprehensive. ie: 28.5% more expensive. Our Bioloid Comprehensive kit price is 646.3GBP (inc. VAT) so Premium kit might be around 830GBP (inc. VAT)


The number of in-time-for-Christmas kits will be limited. If you are interested in reserving a Premium or Upgrade kits for Christmas, please send an email to sales@robosavvy.com.

[Khashi.E]

There is any indications (also rumors) about prices of the kit and the upgrade kit?

please give me your email, I'll send you the price.

[MOHIT JINDAL]

Bioloid is not selling there Aluminium Frames of GP. So I made the Aluminium Frames myself.Please check the 4 photos in My Files.

[Fritzoid]

There's gonna be a lot of torque applied to those poor little ankle servos.

Think they can handle it ?

[MOHIT JINDAL]

Yes you are right. Fritzoid. I tried to make long legs with F10 frames but no success. Now i made aluminium frames. I will buy 6 Ax18A dynamixel if it walks to some distance.

[Compadre]

AX-18 times two may carry how much load at upper buddy gived the distance?

is a great project may be ill be making one similar.

looks like is feasible...