Dynamixal AX-12 Servos

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These are links that I found that are related to the Dynamixel servos we have available to us.

• NOTE: I have not studied these links, and am not suggesting that all of these resources are "good". These are just references that I found. Please examine them carefully before implementing anything, or risk damaging your hardware.

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Dynamixel AX-12

• Useful Videos, but slightly different hardware than what we have:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=SpdxjsCO9sE
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xxRBtqXTuuM (we don't have the USB-to-Dynamixel adapter)

• OLD: http://wiki.ros.org/dynamixel_motor

  • See Note: https://answers.ros.org/question/261887/which-dynamixel-package-shoud-be-used/

• http://wiki.ros.org/dynamixel_workbench

• https://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/software/dynamixel/dynamixel_workbench/

• https://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/software/dynamixel/dynamixel_sdk/overview/

• https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/dynamixel-workbench

• https://answers.ros.org/question/259640/dynamixel-ax12-tutorial/

• https://answers.ros.org/question/224535/how-can-i-move-a-dynamixel-ax-12a-motor-with-a-python-script/

ArbotiX Controller:

• https://www.trossenrobotics.com/p/arbotix-robot-controller.aspx
• https://github.com/AalborgUniversity-ControlLabs/start-here/blob/master/crust-crawler-arms/getting-started-with-arbotix-m.md
• https://leorover.gitbook.io/leorover/integrations/arbotix-m-robocontroller
• https://answers.ros.org/question/330245/how-to-get-smooth-movement-from-arbotix-controller-dynamixel-servos-using-ros/
• http://wiki.ros.org/arbotix_python
• http://wiki.ros.org/arbotix
• https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/61266/arbotix-m-with-dynamixel-tutorial-example-doc
• https://vanadiumlabs.github.io/arbotix/

Raspberry Pi

These links don't apply, as we won't be hooking these servos to a Raspberry Pi. I'm including them for future reference.

• http://www.raspberryturk.com/details/arm/python-dynamixel.html
• https://github.com/joeymeyer/raspberryturk