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Can you visualize movement?

jojonl
jojonl over 8 years ago

Hi guys,

 

I'm playing around with a passive robotic arm with only a couple or rotary sensors inside. All connected to an arduino.
Getting the numbers is no problem of course, but is it possible to visualize the input to something like pygame? Would be cool to mirror the real life movement to something digital.
The idea came to me when I saw it done in a jurrasic park 'making of'. Where they had a stop motion dino with sensors. Every movement was translated to Maya of 3dsmax. That's a bit to far for me. Just a 2d visualization would be nice.
Any ideas?

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  • jc2048
    jc2048 over 8 years ago +3
    "Every movement was translated to Maya of 3dsmax. That's a bit to far for me." Why? Be ambitious - I'm sure you could afford a copy of Blender. https://www.blender.org/ If you can program getting the numbers…
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    0 beacon_dave over 8 years ago

    In Tom Igoe's book 'Making Things Talk' he connects a couple of potentiometers to an Arduino and then sends the data over a network connection to a 'server' running 'Processing' in order to create a multiplayer Atari Pong type game.

     

    It sounds like a similar thing could be done using the sensors in your robotic arm.

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    0 beacon_dave over 8 years ago

    In Tom Igoe's book 'Making Things Talk' he connects a couple of potentiometers to an Arduino and then sends the data over a network connection to a 'server' running 'Processing' in order to create a multiplayer Atari Pong type game.

     

    It sounds like a similar thing could be done using the sensors in your robotic arm.

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