Use case is passive animatronics, where the machine will run through a sequence of motion upon power on. Can it run independently without being connected to a PC? Thanks.

Hey @Makiedog , Welcome to the RobotShop community! :slight_smile: [image] Makiedog: Use case is passive animatronics, where the machine will run through a sequence of motion upon power on. Can it run independently without being connected to a PC? Short answer: Yes, but (…

@scharette isn’t there a way to start an action group just by triggering an IO pin on the SSC-32U? If so, then a simple ResistorCapacitor-circuit could trigger the pin. The RC-circuit allows the SSC to boot and after the capacitor reaches the threshold, it triggers the pin.

Scharette, If the animation sequences were created in your software- SSC-32 Servo Sequencer Utility, how will the code be transferred to an Arduino board?

[image] o_lampe: isn’t there a way to start an action group just by triggering an IO pin on the SSC-32U? The microcontroller on the SSC-32U is dedicated to managing the control of the 32 RC servomotor control signals. The input pins on the SSC-32U need to be read by somet…

[image] Makiedog: If the animation sequences were created in your software- SSC-32 Servo Sequencer Utility, how will the code be transferred to an Arduino board? Well, that is currently a two step process: Export the sequences themselves from the SSC-32 Servo Sequencer U…

Here’s the post I was thinking of! You’ll need some kind of viewer of the output file… A text editor will work, but it won’t look very pretty. Any kind of spreadsheet editor should work much better. If you need a free tool you could look at LibreOffice, OpenOffice and Google She…

[image] scharette: Not a bad idea… if the SSC-32U could run sequences on its own! Don’t wanna rain on your parade, but the Lobot LSC32 can store and run many action groups. (plenty of onboard memory, 16MB IIRC). I thought that was common?

[image] o_lampe: Don’t wanna rain on your parade, but the Lobot LSC32 can store and run many action groups. I’m sure it can. Not going to say anything about its capabilities, since I’ve never tried one. But, what I can say after receiving questions about this board a few t…

[image] o_lampe: Lobot LSC32 What I’m familiar with is the Pololu Maestro, which can accept scripts and run sequences independently. Problem is its GUI is not visual and timeline-based like the SSC-32 Servo Sequencer Utility, which makes it very difficult to program comple…

[image] scharette: But, what I can say after receiving questions about this board a few times (and the others of the same family) is this: try and find appropriate support for it online in English… :stuck_out_tongue: Sorry for OT, but just in case someone is looking for a…

Can SSC-32U run independently without connected to a PC?

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o_lampe January 11, 2021, 11:51am 11

Sorry for OT,
but just in case someone is looking for a understandable chinghlish documentation about the Lobot servo controllers: it’s in their dropbox

Help with FlowArm sequence file format