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wes thierry So I know you are approaching this from a different direction as the sphero bb8, but couldnt you just make 2 of your motor contraptions, one inside the ball, and one on top to do this? Control from the one on the inside might allow driving to be more accurate... Just a thought. -wes
May 16, 2015 01:39:17 · Reply
James Bruton Hi Wes, I think that would make it too top heavy - with all the motors and batteries. If there was a robot in the base then the head would probably need to be really light and held on a stick somehow. Otherwise the 'double balancing' makes it an even harder problem to solve.
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Adam Cossey Great idea releasing the video early for patterns! But what am I gonna watch on Tuesday! Lol.
August 16, 2015 14:01:05 · Reply
James Bruton You could always watch half now and half on Tuesday?
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August 23, 2015 14:51:32
Jeff Johnson Hmmmm. Adding a GoPro on the droid makes me want to modify the periscope and put it in there. It looks like a Hero3+ would work if the periscope housing was just a little bit wider. Would have to pause the GoPro when the periscope goes down (and looks like there is an Arduino hack for controlling a GoPro). And need a phone mount on the remote to stream the periscope cam.
August 23, 2015 17:35:31 · Reply
James Bruton That's an interesting idea - there are other smaller cameras as well of course.
August 23, 2015 18:14:01 · Reply
Jeff Johnson True. I just have a couple of wifi GoPros sitting around and had herd you could control with commands from Arduino. I see that there are some camera modules and a camera shield that work with Arduino too, which means you can have the lens in the periscope and the rest of the hardware elsewhere the head. I wonder if you can rig it so the camera/periscope combo can take panning panoramas? I'll have to do some research.
August 23, 2015 18:36:30 · Reply
Dave Pløger and I said I wouldn't watch it earlier but here I am watching it on a monday evening...
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Dave Pløger 9:25 - any chance you can fix the gap on the left leg (shown on the right side)?
August 31, 2015 07:30:27 · Reply
James Bruton Yes it's nasty, but I really don't want to cut any more panels ;-)
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Adam Cossey Thanks again for the early release of videos for patrons!
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