Greetings all … needless to say life is full of ironies … being an old geezer, I have a friend that is interested in robots and robot arms so I mentioned that I had an old robot arm that I wasn’t using anymore and he could have it if I could get it going … little did I realise what I was committing myself to. Anyway when I saw the posting about the old Lynxmotion robot arms I felt help was in sight. I have only the one robot arm and it may precede the 10 in another post. Mine use 6 of the CS 51 standard servo and a PIC 16C61. Being an absolute pack rat, I have all the original software, I think, but have no idea how to operate the arm. Being over 60 and of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most, I seem to recall it wasn’t all that difficult to operate but so far no such luck. A file called setup works fine as it asks which serial port to use, which arm to use, default 1, and if I want to modify the home position Y/N. Then I click on a file called stamp1 and it looks like the same window that they use in Qbasic … when I try to load a file it does nothing.
Anyone out there that can remember how to operate this arm your help would be greatly appreciated … thanks in advance and take care … Vic
PS … I’m using XP where as when I originally purchased the unit I think it was used on Win 95 … I don’t know if that would make a difference
From what you have described you have one of the oldest versions of the Lynx 5AA-Kt. It came with a program I wrote using qbasic! Now unfortunately that will never run on todays XP machines. The software we are currently providing with the arms requires the SSC-32 servo controller, and will not work with the MiniSSC-II you have. Wish I had better news.
Hi Jim … thanks for the info … its not bad news just reality … time marches on … oh well the robot arm still looks impressive on my work bench take care … Vic
Actually there is another option. You can make the arm operational in real time, (no way to save steps and play them back) with the Bot Board, Atom 28, PS2 controller and cable. It would cost about $110.00…
take care … Vic
