lol, erm, itali9an guy, servos are escentianlly motors 
i can’t wait, did i miss the pricew Jim or have u now decided on one yet?
haha thx for the tip, but I meant gearhead motors as being controlled like a servo which are essentially better than standard servos 
well, $31 for just the motor? or the whole little package u see in the picture? or do you need to buy those SES metal bits seperatly 
Looks like that price is just for the motor in the “motors” section of the site. Im sure there will be a new “Motor erector set” section on the site for with the price of everything but the controller (as jim said the controller will be seperately sold).
BOURNS, stocked at farnell, do a range of stanless steel shafted, brash/nickel bushed pots, they also do some with bearings built in as do Vishay but the best idea maybe the Tyco ones which slip over your existing drive shaft. That way you can make as robust a bearing as you like and the pot will not be under any load whatsoever.
Sounds nice 8)
I would say just the motor, and that is a very reasonable price considering some motors similar to that can go for $150 each. Check out Maxon motorusa
Agreed SJ.
A bit of control and feedback circuitry and its a 75Kg servo for about the same price as a 10Kg servo.
Here is an image of the prototype circuit boards. I have also seen video of it working! We are making progress! 
OMG! I LOVE THOSE! 
Have you done a tuturial on motor control, if not is it a possibility.
I understand servo control and pwm etc but I’ve never delved into H-Bridge and all that stuff for conventional motor control.
I am considering the J-5 base in the near future and I’ve no real idea how I would control it.
Considering the work I’ve done with the SSC-32 that would be my first choice but I’ve not idea if that is possible…
In one aspect, the gearhead motor setup shouldn’t be much different than a standard servo. The basics are a motor with gearing, a motor control board, and a pot for position feedback to the board. The FET chips on the board look somewhat small. What would be their rated current capacity?
Nice!!!
The FET’s are rated for 5 amps each, for a total capacity of 10 amps for this board. The headsink is not shown in the image. These are the more powerful cousins of the FET’s used in the Hitec super servos, 5990 etc.
Were these boards custome made for this type of application or are they a general kind of H-bridge motor controllers?
They do say Lynxmotion on the board so I assume you had them made Jim? Becuase I would like to give my compliments to the maker, these boards look well done! Small lightwieght boards with surface mount technology, whats better than that for this type of application?
Great job jim,This is more of what i was thinking for knee and elow,s
http://img57.imageshack.us/my.php?image=giantservo2rg9.png
then i thought maybe just make a bigger servo
but atlast the only one i think would work well and i could pull off is
Wow,
I’ve been working on an arm I’d designed to use the hsr5995tg’s -Yeah yeah I know - I found out too late they weren’t going to do the job. This is just what I was looking for. I don’t want to seem impatient or anything, but when the heck are these gonna be available? Will you take an advance order? Do you need help Beta testing? I don’t mind ‘risking’ my money (guess that’s obvious already, bought those confounded 5995’s no?). It’s Ok I’ll wait (if I have to). Just one more little question- will the standard SES components take the torque and continous use these beauties can dish out?
Jim
I would think that you could twist a bracked if your careless in your programing and desigh but the servos and brackets will be on the end of the giant servo and will give before the bracket ,know if u got a 4 ft biped
that weight 20lbs and it falls down all bets are off
I know it’s only been a few days, but how’s this project coming? : )