Farrusco tries to write 'LMR'
@ September 30, 2008
- CPU: Arduino
While coding new interactivity into this robot, and trying to achieve more control on the way it moves, I though it would be cool to see what happens if I mount one little servo to hold a pen, and tell him to write 'LMR'.
The idea came from this challenge... and I thought I could give it a shot.
If you can´t see the videos here are the Youtube Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v3BJMeKFW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzekyC9O6hA
The result was far from what I expected.
The pen is not centered on the chassis.. the correct position for the pen would be exactly between the wheels..
If the pen was in the chassis center the result would be accurate!! I still can´t keep 90º angles everytime I move on to the next letter! :)
At the same time it was nice to see this little creature drawing lines on its own :)
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 11:19
I´ve uploaded a new video
I´ve uploaded a new video but Youtube tags aren´t working..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzekyC9O6hA
:)
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 18:46
EXCELLENT
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 23:53
:D
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 12:00
Hey - it's working now.That
Hey - it's working now.
That is just a brilliant effect! How on earth did you do that? :D
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 18:48
Nearly
Just need to get the pen to write "LMR".
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 12:14
dito!
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 12:24
In this case it is frame by
I took the red LEd as reference, and every single frame I place one colored dot over the LED.
It was done in Autodesk Combustion, you can do the same in Adobe After Effects of in Flash. :)
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 13:25
Nice work! (Though I'd also
Nice work!
(Though I'd also hoped you could tip us of some tracking sw, would be quite handy! :)
But nice!!
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 14:35
Yes!! The sw´s that I
Yes!! The sw´s that I mention (except Flash) they all do tracking automatically, but it is kinda tricky..
In this case I´ve made it manually :)
@ Tue, 2008-09-30 12:27
Oh My Goat!
That sounds like hard work! Good job though. You almost proved that your bot can actually write.
;-)
I was really hoping you had software to do the tracing.
8-/