Creation of an animatronic head as a fun demo
Video https://youtu.be/uzPisRAmo2s?si=1dMiAXOmYrhK4bBS
Files https://willcogley.notion.site/?p=b88ae87ceae24d1ca942adf34750bf87&pm=c
Decided to build this version first due to the simplicity of snap together with no fasteners.
Also investigating Bottango Animatronic Software for control https://www.bottango.com/
3D Printed head parts https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2781756 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2863069
Pololu Mini Maestro 18 https://www.pololu.com/product/1354
Raspberry Pi
Logitech F310 Game Pad https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gamepads/f310-gamepad.html
Python class for Maestro (which is where maestro.py came from) https://github.com/FRC4564/Maestro
Also requires:
Pyserial https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial
If using Pygame to talk to gamepad... Pygame https://www.pygame.org/news
If using Inputs to talk to gamepad... Inputs https://github.com/zeth/inputs
- AI has been used to help write code for this project.
- Pygame on older/headless rPi is slow, using Inputs instead
- 5 servos -- each eye (left/right) -- each eyelid (left/right) -- both eyes together (up/down)