Everyone
First of all, Thank you for all your help in my previous post (SSC32 and power consumption) this helped a lot in building the power supply for my animatronics project.
Now that I am in the middle of designing and building my project I thought I post some pictures and later a video of the progress and the scope of my creation.
Keeping in mind that I am in the humble beginnings in the art of robotics, please enjoy the pictures
By the time I am finished with the build I will probably max out the SSC 32 and will look into a more interactive way of moving the creature, sensors, remote control etc……
I will post a video link soon
When I read Lucy, I immediately thought of the T-Rex with the same name. Is this project creating a known dinosaur, or is it a fictional creature. Either way it’s very impressive. Keep us posted to your progress and link videos too. Nice work! 8)
well, the name just came to me, this is more a fantasy character which will have a wet looking silicone skin, but i must say it took on a live as a dinosaur replica
Here is my configuration so far
5x HS 805BB
10x HS 422
8x 645MG
and a bunch of old Futaba servos that i had in a drawer ( which i am hoping to replace, just a question of finances)
I hooked her up to the computer last weekend and tested a small routine,
working quite nicely
by the time i am completely finished with the project i am hoping to incorporate some Air Bladders to make her breath.
here is the first video that i took over the weekend
the movement is in slow motion on purpose to check if all of the servos are working properly.
i am hoping to speed everything up as i progress in hooking up servos
I don’t think you can. But you can connect 2 SSC-32’s to the Basic Atom Bot Board and it can send Serial commands through the I/O pins. There is an example on lynxmotions site for this. It’s fairly simple to use and this way you can have up to 64 servos.
You should be able to add more comports using USB serial adapters. If you write your own control application, you should be able to open multiple comports in the application and use them as needed.
The only method of multiple SSC-32 control for sequencing is with Visual Show Automation (VSA) by Brookshire Software. It does animation style sequences with audio. It does not handle sensors though.
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