While working on smaller animatronic projects it can sometimes be a pain having to change things on the fly for a client.
Many of the projects i work on either use RC manual control or Autonomous programming. and even sometimes a combination of the two.
However being able to swap these functions on the fly and be a pain stacking task having to disconnect servos and reconfigure the connections.
And so i have devised a small simple board to help with this.
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The board works by swapping in and out bridges between the connections and allowing either Manual or Auto control.
Inside the case will contain my board along side an RC receiver for manual control and the use of the ATmega328 with Motion Processing Unit (MPU6050 6 axis gyro/accelerometer) better known as the FLIP MWC.
The case also allows access for the CP2102 ( USB to UART Data Transfer) should a reprogram be needed. as they often are! With combination of The Flip it also give the unit a 3rd function utilizing the Motion Processing Unit embedded in the FLIP.
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Im already prototyping the case using SLS printing (0.12mm layer print), as well as SLA (0.025 layer print) for final product.