Wanted to Buy: Wired Servo

[bprater]

Ok, so let's talk about servos again. It keeps getting brought up, but hasn't happened yet. I don't know what the history of this is -- but it needs to be done. The days of using thrusters to try and align things needs to come to and end. I think it would be a super useful stool -- and could be the premiere wired tool after the programmable chips.

I'm putting my money with my mouth is: I'm putting up $50 for the first person to put it together according to spec. If you meet the requirements of the stool, I'll Paypal you. If other people want to put up money, I'll start a pool.

I want more feedback on what you folks want in a servo.

If you are interested in crafting this, make note here, but don't start until we finalize the requirements. Here is what I've got so far:

[b]NOTES:
So a servo is a motor that is given an angle and moves toward that angle and holds that angle once found. It would set on props using the same system axis is used. It should be able to be rotated before set like easy-weld does. The lock angle button would reset the zero angle to the current rotation. (Assuming locked = 0.)

Servos could also freewheel and be used as an input, like an encoder. Then it could be used as a lever or attached to robots so you could created pre-defined setups.

Since servo has 4 inputs, the user could just send "direction" = 1 -- which would put the servo into continuous rotation and would act like a wheel (using speed if given) (if no speed is given and in continuous mode, we need to give it a value or it would go superfast)

Input 'locked' would really only be used if a user wants to encode the current angles. But since it's wired, users could quickly "unlock" servos, set angles and re-"lock" them.

Please ask for clarification and add your feedback!

Geppetto

[Syranide]

I think tomb said he had something working on this but no tool for it, but I have no idea of the actual status.

[Devenger]

I might look into it, if only to make some money to buy a server with. And it doesn't sound particularly impossible, either. Just some kind of modified wheel with a silly friction value that's pushed around by Lua a lot to try and meet requirements.

[tomb332]

i have made it mostly i need to work on the stool as atm it puts the servo axised end on the prop shot. And it spazes a bit when moving things but i think it does most of what you said, ie variable speed, angle input, (it auto chooses shortest direction), no numpad inputs, doesnt have locking feature but thats not hard, it always works on 0-360 and i havent put angle zeroing in but it autosnaps to its zero angle when placed.