About ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL actuators. Worth writing open-source portable protocol driver for?(reddit.com)

A few questions: Has anyone here used them before? If you know, how widely are they adopted in research and or industry? If you have worked with or is currently working with them, what kind of interface are you using? As for me, I'm currently using their X, AX, and MX series to build an autonomous mobile hexapedal manipulator robot for academic research and I'm interfacing them through an STM32 microcontroller running a bare-metal half-duplex UART driver for the servomotor I wrote myself. My specific application which requires an onboard and flexible microcontroller driver makes working with the official controller firmware rather tedious or unnatural, so that's why I wrote the driver from scratch per-protocol. Because of the problem, I'm interested on making my bare-metal driver portable by parameterizing the transport layer around per-protocol packet handler and builder code before eventually releasing them to the community under an open-source license. Do you think it's a worthwhile project? submitted by /u/Nusto1n1 [link] [Kommentare]