Robot Overlord already simulates and drives robot arms. If you are building a new robot arm, it only makes sense to work with Robot Overlord and get the job done faster. Here’s a few tips to get you going faster.
The medium is the message
Robot Overlord can open a serial connection at your chosen baud rate 8-N-1 style. All Robot Overlord commands are less than 64 bytes long and all of them end with a new line (\n) character.
The syntax
Rather than write a long post that might get out date, here’s a link to the Robot Overlord Wiki page with the current syntax and formatting rules.
Note that this list isn’t the canonical list, either – the real deal is in the firmware for the Sixi robot, as that is the robot we currently write to support. In the future and this is out of date, let me know!
Robot Overlord has been in heavy development since July of 2019. Now after 816 commits I believe it’s ready.
The contextual menus for objects in the scene has been completely overhauled to be consistent. The networking has added an SSH system. The kinematics now use Gradient Descent. And there’s so much more!
