Monday, January 09, 2006

Last post: No big-ass servos

To Sophia, who asked about using a big-ass servo essentially rotating the ENTIRE shooting system with the camera . . . No.

Remember that we can ONLY use the motors that are provided in our kits, and we don't have a big-ass servo included in the KoP. The only servos we have are the mosquito sized Hi-Tec ones that you so hate.

However, I can tell you that in this case, we can drive a turret like platform with a DC motor but use the gear tooth sensor, a very large potentiometer, some sort of homemade rheostat (do you know what that is?), or some other means to sense our rotational position, in combination with a simple switch to provide it with a physical starting position that it can initialize to.

Capiche? Let's ask Doug.

- Emily

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