Animatronics Info. Sources

Posted by Gavin Melville on March 28, 2005, 11:25 pm

Hi,

I'm just starting an Animatronic project the hard way. This needs to
be an all electric animal, and I was wondering if there are any good
books, or sources of info. Extensive 'net searches and book sites
like Amazon havn't really turned up much useful stuff.

TIA,

--
Regards,
Gavin Melville
gavin.melville@acclipse.co.nz

Posted by Robert Oschler on March 29, 2005, 10:17 am

> Hi,
> I'm just starting an Animatronic project the hard way. This needs to
> be an all electric animal, and I was wondering if there are any good
> books, or sources of info. Extensive 'net searches and book sites
> like Amazon havn't really turned up much useful stuff.
> TIA,
> --
> Regards,
> Gavin Melville
> gavin.melville@acclipse.co.nz

Galvin,

This is a topic I am very interested in myself. If you have the bucks I'd
suggest the Robix robot kit. It is a an extremely powerful and flexible
Java programmable servo interface that can control tons of servos at once.
In addition, the vendor adopted a client/server methodology so you can have
multiple computers working together to control your Animatronic device.
This is cool if you want one person controlling the eyes, another
controlling the legs, etc. The programming interface is really well done
and should give you the tools you need to do the advance level of
synchronized movement you need for an Animatronic device, with a minimum of
fuss.

I have one of their kits myself and I love it. One of my background
projects is interfacing my P5 Virtual Reality glove with the Robix USBOR
controller to control an Animatronic device (or one portion of it).

Here is a link to their web site:

http://www.robix.com/

As far as Animatronic specific web sites or documentation, I haven't found
much either, so I guess we'll have to build it ourselves. I have opened up
a topic section on my forum to discuss Animatronic device development
specifically. Please join in:

http://www.robotsrule.com/phpBB2/

Thanks.

--
Robert Oschler
http://www.robotsrule.com/phpBB2/
Robot & Android Discussion Forum

Posted by on March 29, 2005, 11:11 pm

> and I was wondering if there are any good
> books, or sources of info. Extensive 'net searches and book sites
> like Amazon havn't really turned up much useful stuff.
> Gavin Melville

A good looking animatronic is not an easy hobby project, so I suspect
that there may never be much available. However, among the halloween
haunted house hobbiest is a large group of people who write up nice
how-to pages. That might be a better search to do.

Joe Dunfee

Posted by Dave Garnett on March 31, 2005, 4:02 am

> I'm just starting an Animatronic project the hard way. This needs to
> be an all electric animal, and I was wondering if there are any good
> books, or sources of info. Extensive 'net searches and book sites
> like Amazon havn't really turned up much useful stuff.

This should keep you busy ! http://members.aol.com/robotweb/

D

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Posted by dan on March 31, 2005, 1:40 pm

Gavin Melville wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm just starting an Animatronic project the hard way. This needs

> be an all electric animal, and I was wondering if there are any good
> books, or sources of info. Extensive 'net searches and book sites
> like Amazon havn't really turned up much useful stuff.

Some sites I have marked are ....

http://www.animatronicsresource.com/
http://www.cabaret.co.uk/vrexs.htm
http://www.brockeng.com/mechanism/

- dan michaels
www.oricomtech.com
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