Chip's animation controller @ Riverside Robotics Society

4 Nov 2017 · 1 min

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In this demonstration, the presenter explains a custom animation controller designed for animatronics. The device supports 16 independent channels, each capable of recording a position via a button press after adjusting an LCD-controlled dial. These recorded positions form a keyframed animation sequence that can be played back repeatedly. The controller can drive multiple facial features such as two eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, and a mouth. Additionally, the board includes built‑in audio output and offers Bluetooth and serial interfaces for external control.

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This thing, when all gets set up, there's enough controls here for doing 16 channels of animation. And the idea is, when I put that, the LCD guy back over on here, I've got my buttons and you dial it into a position, hit the button, and it records it. Dial it into position, hit the button, records it. And then after you've got all those recorded, it's just keyframed animation. You say go and it goes repeating what you just did. And with 16 channels, I could do 2 eyeballs. I've got eyelids. You know, you can do eyebrows, you can do mouth, and basically everything else. Plus the boards have audio built into them and things like that, plus Bluetooth and serial control.