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greg_rasputin
USB 16-Servo Controller / Serial-Lib
Dec 3rd, 2008, 6:38pm  
Hi,

I would like to use the Pololu USB 16-Servo Controller to control several Servo-Motors. In the description it says that "Programming is therefore as easy as sending commands to a serial port[...]"
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/390

Does this basicly mean, that i can send Serial commands from Processing via USB to this device to trigger the motors?
Does someone have experience with that kind of interface?

Thanks!
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macgregor_sailor
Re: USB 16-Servo Controller / Serial-Lib
Reply #1 - Dec 17th, 2008, 9:43pm  
I've looked at the board and have passed it by just for this reason.  If there is a number of software packages that can work then they could just list a few. Listed documentation for the board was sketchy at best. Hardware with no software is useless.
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kirwoodd
Re: USB 16-Servo Controller / Serial-Lib
Reply #2 - Jan 1st, 2009, 10:44pm  
greg_rasputin wrote on Dec 3rd, 2008, 6:38pm:
Hi,

I would like to use the Pololu USB 16-Servo Controller to control several Servo-Motors. In the description it says that "Programming is therefore as easy as sending commands to a serial port[...]"
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/390

Does this basicly mean, that i can send Serial commands from Processing via USB to this device to trigger the motors
Does someone have experience with that kind of interface

Thanks!


yes,
thats exactly what it means. you will need to install the usb to serial driver as documented on the site.
you will need to read the docs to see what the commands are, and its likely that you would write your own api so that you arent wrinting cryptic, hard to maintain code.
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