No CGI! All captured with my zany mo-co contraption on a Canon 7D, then comped together in After Effects. Got the camera to do 4 passes: 1. Normal speed to…
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So far, I’ve made: dc servo modules stepper motor modules Canon EF lens modules RGB LED modules RC servo modules Plus a server that lets you playback motions on whatever…
Half the info you need is in the blog post, the other half is in the comments below. The only trouble I had was iris control, which I couldn’t get…
So, I was pulling apart an old car CD-changer unit (as you do), when my eye was caught by the printing on a tiny bit of circuit board… I wonder…
Bought one of these things off eBay for around £35: Don’t know what it’s for. Probably some sort of comms / radio display. The reason I jumped on it –…
Lots of these Li-Po battery packs on eBay, going for around £12 from various vendors: Nice hand-sized battery pack, with a coax plug and socket on flying leads, and a…
Right then. The mission: to mount the Hydra’s base station under my desk, which means mounting the EM globe sideways. It’s the bit that generates the magnetic fields that the…
Just got hold of a Razer Hydra, a 3D motion controller system aimed at gamers. There’s a base station with a glowing green ball on the top that needs to…
A quickie project. Two stepper motors, a UV laser, some luminous paper, an Arduino, a couple of ULN2803 drivers for the motors, and a “daisy wheel” printed onto transparency film….