Anyone here a "Johnny 5" owner?

Lynxmotion Rovers, Sumo, and Tracked
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Those cameras are from Inesun, and are a CCD wireless camera. They are relatively heavy (about 230 grams each), so we will only use them on a wheeled or tracked base.

One really nice feature of this camera is it uses a standard CS-type lens, so you can exchange the lens for another.

  • Jon
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Received my Johnny 5 kit from Lynxmotion yesterday and pretty much finished the mechanical assembly of the base last night and started on the electrical.

Question, there appears to be no de-facto standard wiring for the base so I was wondering what ports on the SSC-32 are you using for the track motor controls. I know it probably does not make any difference but if there is any code sharing at some time it would be good if there were some commonality.

Great kit, by the way, and I know how I will be spending my weekend, other than flying helicopters. :slight_smile:

Carl

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Hey why don’t we use this as the standard. :wink: (from the assembly tutorial)

I will have James do some screen caps for his sequencer setup and also have him export the sequences he has created.

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It looks good but I would use a different number system.

0 - base
1 - left motor
2 - rt motor
3 - hip
4 - head
5 - lt shoulder
6 - rt shoulder
7 - lt elbo
8 - rt elbo
ETC…

basically altrnate arm servos with odd numbers for the left side and even numbers on the right side.

EDIT

Thinking more about it, it might be easier to remember say 7-10 servos are one arm vs. every other servo which can get confusing.

Perhaps use:

0 - base
1 - LT motor
2 - RT motor
3 - Hip
4 - Head
and the arms numbed they way you have it.

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Um, but Mike, there are already many units out there with this “standardized” setup. I don’t see any real benefit to changing it.

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Oh! ok,

My bad…

I thought you were asking for input/suggestions from the LM community.

:blush:

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Hii Jon,

Can you give me a source for these cameras? Sounds like what I’m interested in.

Alan KM6VV
P.S. Say hi to Dave for me!

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I think his suggestion was to use the layout in his tutorial. :open_mouth: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley: 8)

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That looks okay. I just did not get that far into the manuals or the assembly process last night. During the week my going to bed at 9:00pm and getting up at 3:30am interfers with a lot of activities. :unamused:

Thanks Jim, and others,

Carl

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I’ve had mine up and running for about 2 weeks now, works great!

I just wish there was a way to map sequences to keys, or to map the “Advanced play” module onscreen buttons to keys, so that it wasnt all mouseclick control when youre operating him via SEQ. Probably could write a Visual Basic program that would do it, its just been so long since I’ve touched vBasic -_- A better solution for motor controllers in SEQ would be nice too, but you cant have everything :stuck_out_tongue:

I used the same wiring diagram for the most part, slightly different simply because I used a splitter on the two torso servos so that their motion was sync’d, and I’m using the Pan/tilt lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx? … egoryID=61

for the head, so I switched the torso servos SSC ports with the head servos.

Jim- You have any SEQ projects for Johnny 5 laying around that you’d like to share? :smiley:

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Pics? Video? :slight_smile:

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You can find them here: inesun.com/show.php?id=2639

  • Jon
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Nice camera!

Thanks Jon!

Alan KM6VV

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Thanks Jon!

Great project by the way!

Do you have any video of your humanoid bot walking?

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I posted my Johnny 5 project here, still work in progress though, few crappy cellphone pics included!

lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?p=30986#30986

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Hi:

I’m a Johnny 5 owner and have posted some construction tips on the forum here:

lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?t=3076

All the best,

Migs

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My robotics class has completed assembly of a johnny 5, assembly went fairly easy considering it was done in sections by different groups of teenagers. Electronics hasn’t been quite as cooperative. Our first attempt to control johhny via bluetooth hasn’t worked out. If we can’t make progress we might go with the atom bot board and ps2 controllers next.

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Specifically what problems were you having with the bluetooth? I had some issues getting it setup initially but was able to get around it.

I’m an IT professional by day, and wouldn’t mind helping you guys troubleshoot it, so feel free to shoot me a PM so we don’t spam the boards :wink:

edit- see my post here in response to yours: lynxmotion.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3077