The Stand Alone Animatronic Display is a completely self contained unit for the control of a Moving display with audio(built in processor). The unit has been designed to create animated displays in a simple frame by frame format by using 16 sliding potentiometers that set the position of each servo. Once the user is happy with the servo positions a button is pressed on the side of the display to store that frame. The next set of servo positions are set and the store button is pressed again. Once the sequence is complete a second button is pressed that marks the end of the sequence.(in sync with audio start stop) The control box has a number of modes of operation.That can be accessed by a 4 position keyswitch on the side of the unit. As these functions can be changed depending on what the consumer requires I will just list the posible modes of opperation.
1 P.I.R trigger. A sensor on the front of the Display Picks up the presence of a person in front of the unit, which can trigger the movement sequence with/without audio.
2 Single trigger operation.A push buton on the side is used to activate the display through one cycle (useful when testing).
3 Continuous loop or timed opperation.
4 programing mode. animated sequence.In this mode the display servos can be positioned using the 16 way controller and stored in sequence.
5 programing mode. audio input. During this mode the power to all servos is disabled (to prevent electrical noise ) and the audio input through a phono socket is recorded and stored simply by holding a button down for the duration of the message. releasing the button signals the end of the recording.
Note: The start stop is triggered by the length of the animated sequence so the total length of the message must be the same length or slightly longer.
Special functions
Audio input interrupt. With this function an Audio source can be input through a phono input jack from an mp3 player, cd, ipod etc this sound is fed to the built in speaker until the unit is triggered. whereby the built in stored message takes priority and is played through the speaker until the sequence has ended.
At the front of the display (internal)special function cards can be inserted . For instance a speech recognition card from sensory inc.
Stereo or 3D Vision
The example Robot Head shown below has a colour ccd camera in each eye, this has many uses , CCTV ,3D IMAGING ,Range finding or simply for use as a test jig for scientific or educational research. The images are genlocked so have sync pulses in phase with each other , this enables either analog or digital signal processing (dsp) techniques to be applied to the images
For instance we have a unit for converting the dual pal video from each camera into Dual Composite sync R G B each available on two scart sockets.
REMEMBER- All specifications can be changed to suit your needs.!
(see video clips of prototypes below)
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