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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal Android Head

« on: May 09, 2008, 03:04:22 pm »

The first picture is concept art of what the secound picture (real) will look like when its finished. I ordered the head from Ebay. It was a mannequin bust then I cut the head section off. The stand is an antique fan base that came from the scrap yard. At the moment it probably has cost all of $50.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal Android Head

« on: May 08, 2008, 04:15:24 pm »

OK after doing more research I have decided on a servo controller. I am going to use the SSC-32 from Lynxmotion. This one has a lot of features, controls a lot of servos and is very widely used and supported. http://www.lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx?productID=395&CategoryID=52

I can also use it with the Roborealm vision system without much trouble. They already have a module to interface with it directly and the code to have it follow movement from a webcam. http://www.roborealm.com/help/Lynxmotion_SSC.php

What I am not sure about is how to interface these things with Ultra Hal.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal Android Head

« on: May 07, 2008, 12:31:12 am »

Hmm found some a third party program to control the Parallax Servo controller. Maybe it will have something useful. http://www.crustcrawler.com/software/psc/index.php

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal Android Head

« on: May 07, 2008, 12:19:59 am »

Well I just noticed OricomTech  is not taking any more orders anyway. I didnt think it would be this hard to find a good servo controller.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal Android Head

« on: May 06, 2008, 09:33:19 pm »

Here is another possible controller with ramping. http://www.oricomtech.com/mscc20.htm

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal Android Head

« on: May 06, 2008, 09:05:13 pm »

Well I could always use this http://www.seetron.com/ssc.htm. The only problem is that its not ramping. And if they are not ramping you cant control the speed going from one position to another. I will do some more research to see what all is on the market besides this these.

Oh and thanks for the help:)

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Hal Android Head

« on: May 06, 2008, 03:41:40 pm »

Hi I am working on an android head to be controlled by my computer. And I am thinking of using Hal but I am not sure how easy it is to use the Hal brian editor to get him to control external servos. I will probably be using this one http://www.parallax.com/Store/Accessories/MotorServoControllers/tabid/160/CategoryID/35/List/0/Level/a/ProductID/346/Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName%2cProductName

Here is my concept art of the head.

Larger image http://www.pwlawrence.com/temp_art/Android_Concept01.jpg



And here is an image as it stands now.