SES stands for “Servo Erector Set”, a versatile set of servo brackets and mechanical parts used as modular building blocks for hobby servo motors. The Servo Erector Set mechanics are made up of durable black aluminum brackets and sturdy black Lexan. You can build an entire assembly using just these components, then populate it with servos and electronics to bring it to life.This makes it surprisingly quick and easy to design and build rugged, complex robots and systems. Unlike many other modular robotic building kits, the Lynxmotion SES brings you closer to making truly custom robotics as it allows you to integrate third party sensors and products.
What is included?
The SES V1.1 includes over 500 parts and online instructions allowing to build five very different types of robots: a simple 2WD rover, the popular AL5D robotic arm, a fun BRAT biped, an advanced quadruped and a versatile hexapod.
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Most prominent parts:**
Rechargeable battery
Wall charger
Wireless PS2 Controller
Botboarduino microcontroller
SSC-32 servo motor controller
Bluetooth USB dongle
Bluetooth Bee
44 durable aluminum brackets
8 rugged Lexan panels
12 Hitec servo motors
How do you program the robots?
Flowbotics Studio V2
We are proud to introduce FlowBotics Studio V2. This new version is a great step forward in robot-programming and allows roboticists, from novice to expert, to easily create robotic behaviours using a combination of graphical and text-based programming.
By linking modules and components together it is possible to create advanced robotic behaviours that interact directly with the robotic hardware. Events and data then flow between the links as the application executes the program on-the-fly without need of compilation. This make development and testing seamless and extremely fast and avoids lots of the usual headaches of developing robotic behaviours.
FlowBotics Studio V2 was created in conjunction with DSP Robotics and uses the powerful FlowStone graphic programming engine (a feature never before included in a hobbyist-centric software). Out-of-the-box, it supports the SSC-32 servo motor controller, a selection of Phidget modules, and some standard sensors.
Since this software is also included with the SES V1.1, it is preloaded with highly-detailed sample programs capable of driving and simulating each of the five robots included in that set. You can see a glimpse of those projects, in the screen captures included in this page.
Your ad says Flowbotics $45 with a full version of Flowstone valued @ $250, pity some ppl @ dsp say no, as there is no vst and no executable output. The flowstone demo has vst without executable output, and is free. So what do you get for $45 ?
Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we apologize for any confusion.
While FlowBotics does not include the full FlowStone program, it does include the complete programming language. You are correct that the FlowBotics Studio software does not include the option to export .exe or VSTi, though this is the only functionality which is restricted.
Unlike the free FlowStone, FlowBotics Studio does not have limitations on the number of components or interfaces used in a project and in fact comes with six sophisticated demo programs, most of which exceed the limitations of the free version: they allow you to program the gait of a walking robot in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks.
FlowBotics Studio will also be continuously updated with new components and demo projects, which our users will get for free for the first year.
Just to clarify - FlowBotics Studio has an extra app. layer on top and ships with some pre-made apps. as well as the full FlowStone programming language inside. The new apps for the LyxnMotion kits are exclusive to FlowBotics Studio so they are not available for the stand alone version of FlowStone. The version of FlowStone inside Flowbotics is full with the exception of exporting EXE’s and VSTs, this is because inside FlowBotics Studio the apps. already run like EXE’s so there is no need for this feature. If you want to make your own EXE’s or VST’s then you will need to buy the full version of FlowStone which is available also from RobotShop: robotshop.com/productinfo.aspx?pc=RB-Dsp-03&lang=en-US
The current Demo version of FlowStone is restricted in project size, the number of Ruby components you can use, audio IO, com ports etc.etc rendering it useless for anything other than very small projects or evaluation. It also doesn’t have the export to EXE enabled and the VST plugin export exports are only demo plug-ins as the audio is muted every few seconds.
So to be clear:
FlowBotics Studio is only $40 USD for the download and has the full unrestricted FlowStone inside and you can make your own apps. and share them with other FlowBotics users etc. No EXE export. robotshop.com/productinfo.aspx?pc=RB-Dsp-06&lang=en-US
FlowStone Standalone Demo (FOC) is very restricted and is only good for evaluation.
