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RI5 Biped with 5 control+ motors
CheungsLegoCreation posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Hi all, Just want to share with you a RI5 creation that I have been working on for a few weeks. It is a biped robot built with 5 control+ motor and the Robot Inventor hub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAfLVE8jtw The next step is to build the same bot using Control+ and hopefully by the time the build is done I will be able to program it using the new PoweredUp App. Enjoy! -
6 DOF with 1x Robot Inventor
Mr Jos posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
As there is not much going on here yet, and my own projects with EV3 are not working out as I would want, I'll post this video from someone who designed a 6 DOF with 1x RI. He used my program I made to be used for a 6 DOF with 2x EV3 and changed it to work without homing sensors, as it has only 6ports, each needed for a motor. With my help explaining how I build up the program, and how he could make it work and what changes would be needed. He did manage to get the forward and inverse kinematics working, allowing the 6DOF to make straight lines and smooth movements, each axis motion ending at the same time. Before he started I thought the calculating power of the RI would be to slow, but it seems to be even faster than with EV3! Cycletimes are faster allowing smaller intermediate steps. If I had a RI I would try to make this aswell to compare the EV3/RI 6DOF. -
New connectivity toolkit for Mindstorms/Spike Prime hub
Steve Robbins posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
For those looking to either use a custom application to monitor the robot state as it runs; or those looking to program the hub using a linux machine: I have just put up a new github repository of interest: https://github.com/smr99/lego-hub-tk I started with the spike tools (https://github.com/nutki/spike-tools, via https://github.com/sanjayseshan/spikeprime-tools) and then wrote a new communication layer that can use both USB and Bluetooth, with failover -- i.e. if you unplug from USB, it will automatically switch to Bluetooth. I added in a mechanism to continuously monitor the hub's sensors and devices, and the console output from a running program. It is a work-in-progress -- not all the hub messages are understood -- but useful enough. Let me know what you think! -
Using multiple Spike Prime/Robot Inventor Hubs
Skookumjim posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
I have read all sorts of complaints about Robot Inventor and by inference Spike Prime. Some are valid (eg poor documentation)... some are less so (eg colour scheme). One thing seems clear is that the hardware is well thought out (yes there are issues with cables). Now in robotics three elements stand out as being super important: being able to use multiple motors (motors are basic building blocks), multiple sensors plus having the computational brain (and software) to hold it all together. Unfortunately Lego only provide 6 ports on each hub and have 2 versions of software both of which initially appear limiting. Whereas wireless Inter-hub communication could be very helpful enabling models to use multiple hubs and access both software platforms this is not something that Lego have explicitly provided at the moment. There is however a very simple and seemingly reliable work around available immediately that could help in cases where high speed comms and high data volumes are less important. This is to use optical communication. The idea which I have tested is to use the distance sensor to signal light flashes to the colour sensor. The number of flashes in a fixed time frame thus delivers information from Transmitter to Receiver. As expected using downloaded compiled code speeds the process up though not massively. This process could be 2 way, could enable daisy chaining of hubs and could be expanded to longer instructions (again high speed not being a limitation). On the downside the process sacrifices at least one port on each of a pair of hubs (if the requirement is for one way communication between the pair). The sensors need to be carefully and firmly positioned for reliability although there is no other requirement for any connection between them. In this context a model containing the one hub could “launch” the second. As SP and RI software can be easily swapped on any hub the user has the choice of using SP/SP or SP/RI or RI/RI platforms. Unfortunately size limitations prevent me from uploading images of the set up and demo code at the moment. -
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[MOC] Reversible Robot Car - remote controlled
BrickDesignerNL posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
This is my first creation with the Robot Inventor set, 51515-1 , created in stud.io using LDraw parts as custom parts. I hope you like it and it inspires you to build. The PDF building instructions and part list are available at Rebrickable for free. I haven't build it myself because I do not own the set, but greg10 did and posted a photo. In LEGO Studio the motor cables are not available so; I recommend to use the 49283 Wire Clip with Axle Hole (also available in the set) to manage them so that they will not end up in the wheels.