The MYO is a creative controller for interacting with your ez-robot. It uses gestures and an accelerometer to trigger actions, events and move servos. The servos can mimic your movement using the built-in accelerometer. Before we begin with the tutorial, meet Paul from Thalmic Labs, the manufacturer of Myo, as he provides a quick introduction of Myo with EZ-Robot.
Follow the simple instructions in this video and give your JD robot the ability to mimic your movements with the Myo Gesture Armband.
Instructions
The Myo Gesture Control Armband is an interactive method to control your ez-robot.
Load EZ-Builder
We will use JD in this example to move his arm with the Myo.
However, this process can easily be applied to any ez-robot configuration.
Load the most recent JD project from the EZ-Cloud
Connect to your robot
double tap the Calibrate frame to put JD in the calibration position
Project -> Add Control -> Miscalanous -> Myo
The accelometer position of the Myo will be displayed while you move your arm
There are three options on the Myo form
- Configuration menu button
- Pause checkbox
- and C for Calibrate, which will reset the myo's alignment to your position
Press the Config button
This is where we configure how the Myo will control the robot
For this tutorial, we will specify servos to be moved with the Myo accelerometer
To see what servos we wish to move, press the Port Summary tab
We will use JD's Right Shoulder (D2) and Right Upper Arm (D7)
Return to accerolmeter tab
The X Axis is the right and left horizontal movement which we will assign to JD's upper arm
Press the X Axis Port
Select D7
Press Close
*We will now adjust the mininum and maximum range thst the servo will move
*Click and drag Min until the arm is in an acceptable position
*Click and drag Max until the arm is in an acceptable position
To increase the sensitivity on the X Axis, adjust it to 2.25 so your arm doens't have to wave as wide to move the servos
Press the Y Axis Port will be to JD's shoulder which is the up and down vertical movement
select D2
Press Close
*** REPEAT SAME TEXT about Min and Max
Press Save
Hold your arm out
Ensure PAUSE is not checked
Move your arm and the robot will move as well
As you can see, only the upper should servos are moving. Let's set the elbow to bend and add gestures to open and close the gripper
Press Config
Press Multi Servo on X Axis
Press Add Servo
The Right Forearm servo is D8
Press Port
Select D8
Press Close
*** REPEAT SAME TEXT about Min and MAx
Press SAVE
Lets add a gripper gesture
Press Poses tab
Press editor icon on Fist gesture
Press Port Summary
The right Gripper is D9
Servo(d9, 90)
Save
Press editor icon on Open gesture
Servo(d9, 50)
Press Save
Press Save again
There you go, now JD will copy your arm movements!
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