Churchill Creations Welcome to our animatronics page. We can supply mouldings for the DIY builder either from one of our dedicated kits on the right, or by selecting your own parts via a variety of separate mouldings to customise your figures functions for that individual edge. Alternatively why not have them expertly built ready for programming, or plug and play pre-programmed just requiring connection to a 12V source. Please email your requirements for a competitive quote. Scales available are 1/6th and coming soon 1/3 & 1/4 Please email for more details. 1:6 Scale Animatronic Kits & Bits Below is a selection of kits and separate parts to create an animatronic 1:6th scale figure. Many thanks to Armortek for allowing me to promote these figures on their excellent forum. Frequently Asked Questions Link Online Build Thread Link Step by Step Controller Programming International Customers! 1:6 scale animatronic kit (4 function, i.e. 1:6 scale animatronic kit (2 function, i.e.
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Raffles | The Animatronics Workshop We begin our workshop by examining a simple animatronic raccoon named Raffles. Raffles began life as a store-bought hand puppet. Inside, he has a place for your hand to work his mouth. If you are dexterous, you can also place a finger in each of his arms to manipulate them as well. To turn Raffles into an animatronic figure, we built a simple actuated skeleton which works the puppet rather than your hand. The mouth mechanism has a single servo motor which pivots a J-shaped aluminum bar. A figure which only moves its mouth looks pretty stiff. In order to tilt the head, we have to tilt the whole mouth mechanism. In future sections, we’ll examine all of this in much more detail. To control the two servo motors in Raffles, we will use a standard Windows-based PC running special animatronics control software. In addition to the controller itself, you will need a power supply for the servos. Standard hobby servos typically draw from 0.1-1 Amp of current depending on the load.
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Turning a Raspberry Pi into a portable streaming camera Last month I decided to kick off a new Raspberry Pi project, since it's been a bit too long since my last few (See: Christmas lights and Musicbox). For a few months now, I've been wanting to play around with a Raspberry Pi Touchscreen, and I've been meaning to buy the Pi Camera as well. I went ahead and ordered them both from Adafruit. (I went with the 3.5" PiTFT touchscreen.) Once they arrived, I started to do some reading online on how to get them installed. The fix ended having to tell Xorg to use /dev/fb1 as the display device, and to do that you should do the following: Install framebuffer driver: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-fbdev Create file: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbdev.conf Section "Device"<br> Identifier "myfb"<br> Driver "fbdev"<br> Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" EndSection (Source) This should allow lightdm to start up and auto-login to Xorg on your Raspberry Pi, as shown in the picture below. Photo courtesy of Anderson Silva. The final product.
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