Posts Tagged ‘mx-64’

Golem: The MX-64 Hexapod

Monday, February 24th, 2014

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Forum Moderator KevinO just released photos and a video of his newest creation – Golem: the DYNAMIXEL MX-64 based Hexapod.

KevinO wanted to learn ROS and to further that goal he built a custom robotic development platform. Golem is 76.2 cm in diameter and weighs in at 7.3 kg. The body plates are custom CNCed T6 Aluminum plates. Golem’s brain is an Intel NUC D54250 and has a gyroscope, accelerator, and compass attached for positional/orientation awareness. Right now KevinO controls the robot manually via a Playstation 3 controller over Bluetooth. An entire deck of the robot is dedicated to the massive 6000mAh LiPo battery.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! KevinO has plans for Golem, including adding a camera system mounted on the MX-28T turret and using the Intel Nuc’s 4th Gen i5 processor to do some amazing things with vision tracking. If his previous ‘bot Charlotte is any indication, we’re in for a real treat.

We’re excited to see what KevinO will do with his Golem, but until then this gait test video will just have to sate our appetites.

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New Build Pictures of Envy, Andrew’s Newest Quad: UPDATED

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

Update: Even more pictures are available here

Mech Warfare is quickly approaching and the entrants are finalizing their bots before game day. Our own Andrew Alter is turning up the heat this year with his newest Quadruped, Envy! Envy uses 16 MX-64T and 2 MX-28T DYNAMIXEL robot actuators to produce its silky smooth movement.

You can see a gallery of Andrew’s newest build here and some earlier pictures of his quad here

Envy’s body is based on Ryan Lowerr’s QKQ1 design, an Open Source Quadruped. The head and guns are modified version’s of Andrew’s own Insanity Wolf mech.

Leave a comment if you’d like to see your Mech Warfare entry up on the blog!

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New Dynamixel MX Series Servos Pack a Powerful Punch

Friday, July 13th, 2012


Robotis wowed the robotics community with the MX-28T, and recently they’ve expanded the MX line to include the TTL MX-64T and the MX-106T, as well as the RS-485 variants, the MX-28R, the MX-64R and the MX-106R.

These new servos have a contactless magnetic encoder, which offers 4x the resolution of the RX series. This makes them more accurate and even smoother than the old servos. Also upgraded, is the processor in each of these servos – a 32bit 72mhz Cortex M3! This beefy processor handles the newly implemented PID control algorithm. It can be used to maintain shaft position and can be adjusted individually for each servo, allowing you to control the speed and strength of the motor’s response. The new setup also offerers a 3Mbps bus. The ‘T’ variants use TTL communication and are compatible with other TTL servos like the AX-12 and the AX-18. Meanwhile the ‘R’ variants use RS-485, just like the RX series.

You might remember Don and Jason’s new robotic arm, which uses the new MX servos. But the real question is, what will you do with them?

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Mad Lab’s New Robotic Arm

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

The dynamic duo from Mad Lab Industries are at it again! Don and Jason needed an automated system to load materials in and out of their laser CNC, so they decided to build a robotic arm! Naturally them came to us for the newest Dynamixel Servos to power their arm. For the wrist this arm uses the tried and true MX-28T servos as well as the AX-12A servos for the gripper. The main arm joints use the new MX-64T servos to operate. Finally, to rotate the base, this arm uses a beefy new MX-106T servo to.  The arm even has a custom cut control box for testing the arm and setting poses. Check out the video below for a demo of the arm’s movement.

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