Hi
I have been fowling the Tutorial:
“The Complete H3/H3-R Tutorial v2.0
Updated 06/07/2012
This guide applies to the BotBoarduino.”
Got stock at Step 7.
*“Hold the “A” button on the BotBoarduino and apply power to the robot. This will force the robot into a calibration mode.” *
Yes I press down the “A” button, power it up, the BotBoarduino board “beeps” and I think it’s in calibration mode. I’m using the USB cable, doesn’t say anything else. Guess I can’t use the RS232 because it’s already used by the connection off the two boards.
“Open the Hexapod Calibration program. The program will automatically detect a connected SSC-32 on ports 1-30 and will display the SSC-32’s firmware version when connected.”
Nothing is happening on the Calibration program, it doesn’t connect to the SSC-32.
What am I missing here?
Have tried removing the serial connection between the two boards and put back in the RX and TX jumper on the SSC-32.
Connect an RS 232 cable from my PC com port to the SSC-32 com port. Started the Calibration program and it found the SSC-32board.
I managed to Calibration the servos on all six legs, it was not easy, the servos seem to moving ever so slightly by themself.
Then I put it all back together, powered up the robot, but no all the legs out of calibration again.
The I saw in another post on this forum, it was possible to calibrate the legs by using a function in the BotBoarduino code and a terminal program.
After some fitling around I got the legs calibrated, nice and strait, pressed Y to save the off set, was acknowledge by a beep sound.
But again, when I powered up the robot to test it, the legs was back Again in the not calibrated state.
It looks like, for me, that the offset result is not been stored or maybe it’s been overwritten by zeros.
Don’t know what to do any more.
Regards
Jesper