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Re: Anyone made animatronics with the RCX yet?
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Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:04:02 GMT
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Brian Kendig wrote:

I'd like to make some sort of Disney-style animatronic robot with my RCX.  This
would involve using all three motors to control a Tiki Room-style parrot, for
example, with a rotation sensor on each motor.  Programming the robot would
involve running a program to record data from the rotation sensors, so I could
move the robot through its paces by hand then fine-tune the data by editing it
by hand, and then I could play back that data to have the motors mimic the
actions I had put them through.  (I'd love to have a graphic program to plot the
rotation data on a graph and let me edit it that way!)

Before I work on this, though, I figured I'd ask... has anyone done anything
like this before?

I tried to have my Raptor puppet set up with Pneumatics but I gave up because I
couldn't find a decent way of triggering it. The ways I had it were way to slow and
painful.

Has anyone come up with a great way of using pneumatics with Mindstorms? Did the
fishertecknic values ever come to be?

Dean
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  RE: Anyone made animatronics with the RCX yet?
 
(...) I know this only works with pbForth, and it's not ALL Technic, but you can drive standard servos with the RCX. Here's how: (URL) You can even drive pneumatic switches with the servos... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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  Anyone made animatronics with the RCX yet?
 
I'd like to make some sort of Disney-style animatronic robot with my RCX. This would involve using all three motors to control a Tiki Room-style parrot, for example, with a rotation sensor on each motor. Programming the robot would involve running a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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