I decided to transfer what
I decided to transfer what was a blog post to a true robot page as I intend to push further my investigations.
I suspect that I didn’t use my DFRobot board properly: I didn’t used the right power connector, there is a separate one for servo power and there are 4 jumpers to disable to use pins 4 to 6 I think.
I hope to have time to test this this evening.
Bajdi is on my list of good
Bajdi is on my list of good info on power management 
I just lack of time to properly learn everything I need, that’s the goal on top of having fun 
For the moment, it looks like 5AA will allow me some experiments. So I can start bugging Badji about UBEC (and learn what it means )
If I don’t post a robot page, I put a bolg note. Every robotics experiment will be tracked here as I owe a lot to LMR.
How is it going?
Are you still working on the power? Did you begin to program it? You can do it even while it’s still tethered to a power cable!
I case you need more inspiration, look at the code templates for NUKE:
https://code.google.com/p/arbotix/source/browse/trunk/pypose/tools/models/lizard3/template.ik
https://code.google.com/p/arbotix/source/browse/trunk/pypose/tools/models/core/template.ik
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I received all missing
I received all missing component and I’m ready to try different combination of regulator and batteries.
Even better, thanks to your work on uKubik, I worked again on my code.
The way you used the Serial.read didn’t worked in my case: don’t know why but it doesn’t really matter.
The most important is tat I worked on it again and have a way to address each servo from a serial connection.
I already had a look at PyPose when I was dreaming on Trossen Robotics crawlers. I think I have to keep each step small in order to still progress.
So here’s what I envision:
1) write simple python code to connect to serial and move one or two servos
2) write a basic GUI to control extended script wrote in 1)
3) add BT to avoid cable?
