Control Your Robot! MeCon Motion Control Software for ArmUno and MeArm Compatible Robotic Arms and other Servo Powered Mechatronics.

   MeCon is a Win OS program that allows for easy motion control of the hobby servo motor based Robotic Arms like the ArmUno, Armio & MeArm. no need to build a hardware base control system. MeCon lets you test you robot arm out fast by using its on screen GUI to manipulate the robots servos motors.

    With its teach function you can record motion path files for later automatic play back. The GUI allows mouse dragging to manipulate the controls as well as mouse wheel and clicks. You can use the key board as well and control each axis with a key press.

    MeCon communicates via com port with the Arduino micro controller threw the same USB cable and ports used to program the Arduino with  its IDE. it also has some cool experimental functions such as linking 2 axis with a ratio.  this allows for some movement paths that might be difficult to produce by manually controlling one axis at a time.

    MeCon is in active development on a win7 system with many more features planed.

Using the MeCon Software

   Connect a USB cable to Robotio or Arduino micro controller. select and open the comport, same port as what the Arduino IDE connects to. if the correct port is not visible try clicking the scan button to refresh the list of available ports.

    MeCon is sending serial commands to the Arduino one line at a time in the format of position values for each servo. it looks like this:

 

Value1,Value2,Value3,Value4x

 

Values are a number between 1 and 180.

They are separated by a ,

After the last value a lower case x terminates the line of data.

 

You will see these numbers in the position readouts and motion path file when recording motions.

 

    On the bottom of the MeCon screen are three interval timer adjustments these determine how often this data is sent and or recorded. the units are in milliseconds so set these to a fairly low number (50-200) to get smoother arm motion in real time control or auto teach recording. play back speed must be long enough for the servo to reach its last commanded position.

Experiment with different timing values and observe the result.

 

    Explore with the mouse, mouse wheel and keyboard to discover how the on screen sliders and knob are adjusted. hovering the mouse pointer over a control allows adjustment via mouse. selecting a control by clicking on it allows adjustment with keyboard arrow keys. if you have a mouse wheel you can control two axis at the same time by selecting one control for keyboard input and hovering the mouse pointer over another and spinning the mouse wheel.

    Microbotlabs kits come with a password to enable the Pro version of MeCon. this allows control of 2 additional servo motors and some other features such as saving groups of motion files and playing them back with a button press.

 

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