New Circuit for Antenna Tracker

Hi Guys,

I designed a new 6ch servo driver for antenna trackers or robotic controllers.

My plan was sending it first to HappyKillmore for his ground station's compatibility but he is faster than me and just released a tracking solution :)

Actually it is not a new circuit of mine because i was designed it on December 2009 but it wait on desk for my free time. Now firmware ready for serial usage.

The Circuit including 1 RS232 input and 6 Servo output and size is 20x30mm.

Command set is very simple for all programmers and languages, no need bit calculation or similar things and possible to use any robotic arm projects. You can type the commands from Hyper Terminal too :)

Baudrate: 9600 baud

Signal Resolution: ~1us

CommandSet: [Servo Number]+[position_us]+[chr 13]

[Servo Number] = 1-6 (string)

[Position_us] = 500-2500 (string) (the range depends servo)

for example:

"11500"+chr(13) mean "center position for first servo".

Here is the product page of 6ch serial servo driver

PS: You can order the gimbal (that show on the video) from ServoCity.com, it is very tough an very good engineered product.

Thanks for reading

Melih

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Melih Karakelle January 15, 2011 at 2:52am

@HappyKillmore

Great News, I will test it as soon as possible. This week was very chaotic for me and i didnt do anything about this projects.

@Johann

I bought it from servocity.com, It is very good engineered product. 6ch is only an option for any kind of usage as robot arms etc. You need only 2 or 3 channel (3th for roll) for antenna trackers. And yes you can control 3 heads :)

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Paul Mather January 11, 2011 at 1:59pm

Awesome! I'll add support for this tonight!!! This is perfect for a bunch of projects!!!

EDIT: Melih, can you test with v1.1.35 of my GCS? I've added support. Select 9600 and ServoDriver as the Output Type
diego colonnello January 11, 2011 at 7:35am

the first time i wrote Happy with the Ardutracker idea, one of my options was to use the POPOLU micro maestro servo driver, it was a little board with two options, USB or serial....

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/category/12

But the ArduTracker idea ended working with all the Arduino platform chips.....

Good idea Melih, i think this was some sort of shared inspiration!!!!!!!!!!!

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