Robix Rascal Robot Kit - USBOR Networkable Servo Controller

USBOR Networkable Servo Controller

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One Usbor controls up to 32 servos, grouped as desired as independent Robots / Pods / Organs / Animatronics.
USB 1.1 Device, 2.0 Compliant
Many Usbors connect to a single Host to Control Hundreds of Servos -- because Usbors are USB devices.
No USB knowledge is needed. Usbor Host software wraps all details. Experts can bypass.
XML based protocol over USB. Open, published specification.
Ultra-Fine servo pulse Resolution (500 nanosec) for fine control and Stability (jitter less than 40 nanosec).
32 Analog Inputs (with power pins), 8 bit for user sensors. Power is supplied to the sensor connectors for hookup convenience.
The Usbor runs directly from servo power, from 4.8 to 7.5V. Even higher if your servos can take it.
It distributes power directly to servo connectors, up to 2A/servo (25A max peak) w/ no extra wiring.
Protected against power connector reversal (Not servos or other connected devices).
Field Updates to flash supported.
Usbor's on-board, per-servo readings of current draw indicate torque, blockage, heating.

Software Features

Robix Script Language.
Program in Teach Mode.
Java Based host program: hence, it can be hosted by; Windows PC's running 2000/XP, Mac's running OS X, Linux machines with USB host.
Developers can use Usbor's Host libraries using a range of programming languages such as C++, Visual Basic.Net, Perl, Java etc.

Special Features:
Automatic Point-to-Point Motion with automatically matched velocity trapezoids and per servo control of accel, decal, maxpd, minpos, maxpos, initpos (on reset), duty cycle, and invert.
User-Generated Continuous Path Motion supported. Continuous path mode with buffered stream of sequence of positions.
Auto-Quadrature Count on pairs of inputs, up to 60 Hz, 15 msec min. transition interval, buffered, 16 sources max. Programmable lo/hi/hyst plus error detect/report.
The Usbor hostware supports easy distributed control of your robots, even including mixing OS's. One can, for example, build a mobile robot run by an Usbor connected to a Laptop running Windows Mobile. The laptop acts as a USB host and it has the WiFi communication ability. It then can communicate to other Mac's, Linux boxes, and Windows PC's via the WiFi. As a result, it is possible to control different robot subsystems simultaneous with no special programming! In addition, with the special configuration ability provided by the Java host software, the system supports multiple sub-systems, or Pods (Robots, Organs ?), which composed of user-selected servos and sensors, that can run independently on the same piece of USbor controller.
Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the JAVA host program
Teach Mode: with the Teach Window, users can use the keyboard as a teach pendant. By holding down various keys, it will move the respective servo either in coarse or fine increments in the positive or negative direction. The servo position is updated on the GUI screen.