It’s the time of year when you look at your acomplishments of the ending year, and contemplate your goals for the new year. I am proud of my accomplishments, but hope to do much better in 2008. Here are my goals.
MMT-03 **EDIT 2-15-08: Design / Production / in stock. This is complete. **
o This is the GHM/PGHM motor mount for the SES! It’s actually already on order and will be here early 2008! It’s basically a 0.125" thick L style bracket with the GHM hole pattern on one end and the SES hole pattern on the other end. So they can allow a motor to be attached to a HUB-08 and the tubing, or the “U” channels, or any of the other SES brackets. This one part will completely revolutionize the entire SES system. Yeah, I’m pretty excited about it! 8)
ASB-?? **EDIT 2-15-08: Design is complete. Production is started **
o I am making a firm commitment to complete the 1/4 scale version of the ASB-04, ASB-09, and ASB-10. The goal is to be able to attach them to any of the current SES components.
ASB-?? **EDIT 2-15-08: Design is started. **
o Looking to do the same thing for the HS-85MG servo. I’m not envisioning these as being capable of building a complete robot from them, but rather as a way to add light weight pan and tilts or the like to bigger bots.
FS-01 **EDIT 2-15-08: Design / Production / in stock. This is complete. **
o This is the pressure sensitive foot sensor for the tubing leg I prototyped back in March of 06! lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?p=3005#3005
I know it works well. I just need to put it together as a kit.
FS-02 **EDIT 2-15-08: Design is started. **
o This is the RF-01 PC board foot switch. I have great expectations for this part.
I have a ton more, but I better stop here. I can always get more going when these are completed.
EDIT: 2-15-08: Well it’s only been two months and three of the five are essemtially complete. 8)
I think these will be great additions. With the full kit complete, folks will be able to combine 3 different scales of servos. I think these will really blow the doors open on what people can build.
This is interesting. I have been leaning toward using a current-sensing solution, but this looks pretty cool. How much is each kit going to cost?
I think you and Beth have done an AWESOME jobs this year! I have no doubt that Lynxmotion will continue to grow in the new year and all that follow.
Ah yes!!! I am VERY excited about this part! I think the choice of an “L” type bracket is going to be very flexible and definitely will add to what we can build with the SES. I love the ASB-06 and expect to have a great time with the new motor mount bracket also. Here comes my HexRover in 2008! Now I just need a way to attach those shocks you are adding to the product line to an SES frame…
Very exciting!! I am going to HAVE to figure out a way to build at least a hexapod in 2008, but I would rather build a round or inline octapod. I already have my own design for an inline octapod body…
I am looking forward to working with this part as well. I have some interesting things I would like to do with this, and not just in a biped…
Sounds like some great new products comming up this year!
I would like to make a request for the new year…
The option of shipping USPS would be great! For any international customers, this would be a great improvement! The last order I wanted to make would have costed me $199 postage as opposed to USPS price of $37. PayPal wouldn’t be bad either.
This is all wonderful news. Question about the PGHM (which took me a while to decypher as planetary gear head motor - correct me if that’s wrong) - if I’m understanding this correctly, this is the hardware to connect exclusively. There is another thread in SES that discusses driver electronics so that it can emulate a servo control mechanism which I don’t see on the to-do list. Am I to infer that project is off the table for the time being and we should drive this motor directly?
Looking forward to the connector and thanks for the excellent work.
I have lots of money inversted in the PGHM servo project, but I couldn’t get it done last year. I didn’t mention it here, but I do plan to finish this up this year. As for the mechanics I just need to order the brackets required. I will need to farm out the servo electronics board prototyping and testing, but I’m not able to do anything with at the moment. Finishing up the books and inventory, basic year end crap. Soon I hope.
Hello Jim,
Ever since I first read about your up and coming new bracket for the SES family, the MMT-03 I have very excited!!
You know, I have to agree with you on the fact that this new addition will revolutionize the servo erector set family. I can hardly wait till it is available early this year, as I am in the process of building a all terrain vehicle. Would you happen to have a drawing of this new piece? I would love to see it, as opposed to just imagining it. Any idea when it will be ready, as I know that it is on order.
MMT-03 is in production. I will pass the drawing on to anyone who can make up the 3D model of it.
I finished up the drawings for the quarter scale brackets last night. This bracket fits the HS-755HM/MG, the HS-5745MG, and a few others of the same case style. I chose this over the 805 for that reason, plus these servos can take the aluminum servo horns! I may do the 805 later, but this one is going to make a lot of things possible.
The good thing is they can provide more torque than the 645, but the big difference is they will not heat up nearly as fast as the 645. I can see them as the shoulder servo on the arms, and the hip servos on the Lynx209 and Scout.
I can’t imagine a biped with these micro servos without separating the power source from the unit itself, but what about mini hexapods? Imagine a mini CH3-R climbing off the larger CH3-R!
This reminds me of those evil little hexapods in the movie Runaway (Tom Selleck/Cynthia Rhodes). A mini hexapod would be a lot easier to carry around and show.
Time to add to the list then! What other new things have you got in store for us? I would love to see an “L” bracket with the long section just a bit longer. You would be surprised how many times I have wished for a part like this. Maybe just 1/4" to 1/2" longer on the long side so it would fit across the width of an ASB-04 OR at the ends.
I’d like to see some centered SES holes added to the ASB-18, if there is enough room. It looks like there would be.
Oh, and don’t forget to add a 1/4 scale version of the ASB-06 “L” bracket - these are almost as useful as the ASB-04’s. I use a lot of ASB-18’s also. but many of these would be longer ASB-06’s if they were available. My BRAT looks really odd with an ASB-04 (pan servo) mounted on an ASB-18.
You should have made the 1/4 scale SES bracket part numbers be ASB-204, ASB-209, ASB-210, ASB-206, ASB-218, etc. It would be easy to see which 1/4 scale SES brackets coincide with standard SES brackets.
Ok it’s awesome that mega brackets are in the pipeline. We all want those. 8)
But where are the micro brackets? Now that they’ve been announced I can hardly wait for micro pan and tilts or other miniature widgets. The possibilities boggle the mind…
