External Interfacing

Lynxmotion Robot Arms
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I’m currently doing a project that involves interfacing with the my L6 arm via a seperate computer. As I try to type this, I find myself at a loss for words. What I want to ask is,“how do I make this work”, but I have a feeling that such a question is far to general to merit any real answers. Instead, I would like to know what sending each motor positional information from a seperate computer would entail. That is to say, can I create basic code to do this? Would I have to actually send the positional information in hex strings? Etc.

Be gentle, I realize I may not even be asking the right questions. I have a fair amount of programming background and I’ve been a part of a past robotics project. In the project, it was just a matter of programming the onboard computer on the robot to take in inputs and execute commands based on the inputs from a server. Am I missing something and am making this overly difficult? Can just do something similar here? The arm will eventually be connected to an EIDC, so a program could be put on there to interperate input, but I still have no idea what I’d need the EIDC to actually be sending to the arm.

Any responses are greatly appreciated. All apologies for anything that is unclear.

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if I recall correctly the L6 came with an ssc-32 servo controller. This is strictly a controller in that it takes another computer or controller to send it ASCII strings to make it “do” anything. There is a user’s manual that describes its usage and command set. is that enough info to get you started?

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Arg, it was stupid not to check the controller manual. Yes, that’s plenty. Thanks much for the link also.

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Use this version of the manual instead of that .pdf; the html version will always be up-to-date:
lynxmotion.com/images/html/build136.htm

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ya know I thought about that and even had the html link when I first posted the reply, however if he’s got an L6 then the ssc-32 is more than likely not a current version and I just figured the .pdf document might eliminate any old version vs. new version type questions that might arise. :wink: