{"id":528,"date":"2013-08-17T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-08-17T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T13:25:14","slug":"biped-robot-kicks-a-ball-and-has-a-great-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/biped-robot-kicks-a-ball-and-has-a-great-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Biped robot kicks a ball .. and has a great fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking a ball:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=noObFbkCABU&#038;feature=youtube_gdata_player\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img42.imageshack.us\/img42\/943\/6gg.png\" alt=\"Kicking  a ball\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kicking action runs the knee\/hip servos at full speed, instead of slow smoothly interpolated sweeps like used in walking\/ leaning<\/p>\n<p>E.g.<br \/>\nCODE: SELECT ALL<br \/>\nServo.hip = 90<br \/>\nServo.hip= 140<\/p>\n<p>vs<\/p>\n<p>CODE: SELECT ALL<br \/>\nFor sweep in range (90, 140):<br \/>\n          Servo.hip = sweep<br \/>\n          time.sleep (0.1)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick vid of it falling over when the battery pack detached, causing it to lose balance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gnVgu9Txqo\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img593.imageshack.us\/img593\/7289\/nj0l.jpg\" alt=\"Pi biped\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking a ball: The kicking action runs the knee\/hip servos at full speed, instead of slow smoothly interpolated sweeps like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots","category-technology","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}