are there any programs for controlling the lynx 6 arm, or the servo controller, through the terminal? i ask this because i have a lynx 6 and a linux server, and i want to scare people walking by.
Well,
If you have the lynx 6 arm controlled by the SSC-32 then it is possible to send a string of servo pulses to it via the terminal. Just get the terminal to connect to the serial port the SSC-32 is connected to, and type in the pulses and press enter.
-robodude666
well, im not too advanced into linux, so you will have to explain that more. as in type what i should tell it. but, i saw this one program for windows dos, where you used the arrow keys to set each individual value. thats what im looking for.
In that case, you would need to make your own software. I havent seen any SSC-32 programs for Linux. I don’t know much about programming for linux, sorry.
oh well, i could just pay one of my friends who uses linux to make it
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I’ve been working with various flavors of Linux for nearly 15 years. My current favorite flavor is Gentoo Linux because I can build everything from sources like with FreeBSD. I also use FreeBSD qute a lot.
As I understand it, the SSC-32 is controlled by ASCII strings sent to it through a serial port, so it can be controlled from ANY operating system or serial based microcontroller. This would include Linux (and FreeBSD), using any available language (including C/C++, Python, Java, etc).
You don’t even need to get that fancy. I think you could just echo the commands from the command line manually, or use a script. Since you arm will not be doing anything critical and is attached to a much more powerful computer. Of course, there is a speed advantage in using native code if you actually want your processor to do something else (in my case real-time video processing). See: lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?t=917 for some attempts to program the SCC-32 from C in linux. If you already have a SCC-32 you can help test the code. As I said in that post, I wish I had mine on hand so I could start writing some nice control functions. The more people working on this the better! 