Thread: My 3 axis skull...in progress

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Has anyone thot of buying/selling/trading VSA routines? Would they be "copyrighted" or "artitstic property of.." In the case of Christmas Light shows (light routines) the commercially available light controllers have a list of songs you can buy but I havent seen anything for/abt skellys in the way of VSA routines for sale...

TJ

Since Im starting out as a newbie myself, Ive thought about the very same question, but was too embarassed to ask.

Even a TEST sequence, that would allow you to see that all servos work and are coordinated would be helpful.

Im all for that.

BTW, just ordered (4) Lindberg Skulls. next it will be the servos. The Brookshire software is loaded on the laptop, but I don't have a good feel for it yet. I think it wont make sense to me untill the shulls are built and wired into the SSC-32 ( Whick scares the crap out of me ). Thank goodness for this forum. The SSC-32 circut board is very intimidating., but with the help of past and future posts, Even a newbie like me will get thru it. I hope Halloween Bob doesn't drop off the face of the earth on us now that his quartet have found a new home. - Bart

Originally Posted by skygodtj

Has anyone thot of buying/selling/trading VSA routines? Would they be "copyrighted" or "artitstic property of.." In the case of Christmas Light shows (light routines) the commercially available light controllers have a list of songs you can buy but I havent seen anything for/abt skellys in the way of VSA routines for sale...

TJ

It's really easy to get things started with just a test..

First, come up with a simple audio clip to test the servos.. like this one: http://slavjane.org/DeadMenTellNoTales.mp3 It says "dead men tell no tales.." from the Disney ride..
here's a little longer one: http://slavjane.org/PirateWarning.mp3 d/l it, save it.. then..

With the board NOT powered... plug a servo into the Lynx board, ch1 is good.. skull off for now.. once
it's plugged in, power the board. Open VSA, click on Tools, Load Audio File, find the DMTNT.mp3 file, click it, you should now see the sound in the lower window. Click Tools again, select WaveMotion Analysis, then OK. You should see the bar loaded in the upper window, that's what drives the servo.

You see it's almost a solid bar the length of the sound file. You have to go in an clean it up, removing some of the "sound" from the upper window, leaving the bar just where the actual words are. Takes a little doing but you'll get it. Once the upper bar is "cleaned up" click the Play button(right edge of VSA frame), it should play, the servo should move.

The other way to do it is click-drag the mouse the length of each word in a blank CH1.. meaning do the steps above, but skip the WaveMotion Analysis step. You'll still have the audio clip which drives the servo, but YOU have to make the segments in the upper window to move the servo. That how most people do it. It's cleaner that way, and you dont have to "fix the mistakes"(remove segments) but it does take longer(maybe).. If you want sounds, you can make them, clip them from movies, songs, anything you want, save them in any format, VSA does'em all.. but .wav or .mp3 are the best quality, .wav's are lots bigger tho..

Let us know how it turns out..

TJ

Im guessing that most people are using similar (4) 3 axis skulls? Im wondering what most are using for power supplies. Can Computer workstation power supplies be used? and if so how many would it take? One is enough for all skulls? One per skull?
-Bart

the board is powered by a wallwart.. and the servos get their power from the board thru the Cat5 cable... only three wires are used, the + and - DC and the signal wire, unless you have reeeeally long runs, then you can power each servo from wallwarts. You have to watch the current load.. if you have more than... oh.. 5 skulls or so, then unless you've got a 1A(approx) wallwart, you'd have to go with a bigger supply. Computer PS's have been used, as well as bench supplies... just a matter of current needed for the servos and SSc32 and whats on hand..

is it to late let me know I love what you did I have a great home for them my 9' grim reaper lives in the house and stand right next to the christmas tree
let me know

Is it too late for what?

Originally Posted by skygodtj

Is it too late for what?

Too late for Halloween 2007. I'd say yes.

Harharhar!!!

Sky,

Ya lost me there a little bit there. Im tracking a few 5 vdc power supplies and wonder how big is enough, not enough, too much to basically replicate what Halloween Bob did. Are any of these a good choice?

Thanks in advance

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Originally Posted by skygodtj

the board is powered by a wallwart.. and the servos get their power from the board thru the Cat5 cable... only three wires are used, the + and - DC and the signal wire, unless you have reeeeally long runs, then you can power each servo from wallwarts. You have to watch the current load.. if you have more than... oh.. 5 skulls or so, then unless you've got a 1A(approx) wallwart, you'd have to go with a bigger supply. Computer PS's have been used, as well as bench supplies... just a matter of current needed for the servos and SSc32 and whats on hand..