Folks,
Recieved 200 1/4" poly blanks for the skull servo boards yesterday. As I got a ton of messages for the Lindberg, were going to run the whole 200 for this configuration. We should have them completed today. These servo boards are for the 425 and 625 servos, and include the cut out for the jaw servo.
Some bad news - the supplier of our blanks increased the cost by $.32. Now that may not sould like a lot, but when you times it by 200 = $64 increase. Plus we got hit with some tooling costs by our supplier - almost an 8% increase. So prices will be increasing - but again, we will sell it to you at our cost.
Funny, accounting firm we hired is tyring to explain to us about FIFO and LIFO with our inventory and general ledgers. I guess we must decided which one to go with for our accounting practices (whatever that means). I had no idea it was this hard to run a business... oh I miss the days of just tinkering out inthe garage building the props...
There's a couple schools of thots here.. one, while it's nice to make a couple out in the garage (but not in the AZ heat), it's really good to make something everyone think is the bees knees and wants! The other is while it's good to make something everyone thinks is the bees knees and wants, it doesnt leave much time to think up new stuff that'd be kewl to build for yourself..
G_G, you are doing the community, both here for us, and our communities(where we'll play these) a great service! A neighbor walks past the house each day to the mailbox and she has been stopping in to watch me building these skulls. They were astounded by the Pirates I had last year and says they cant wait to see what I'll be putting out forthis year..
As promised, Parts 1, 2, and 3 of my skull build.. I will be making a vid on how to use VSA, making a sequence actually move the jaw or head.. takes a lil doin, but it goes very quickly after you see how to set the number properly!
Captain,
I read a post a little while back comparing the Skultronix BoC and some other controller board. The BoC is quite a bit more money, but the article explained that the BoC comes with all cables (and the LED eyes) where the other controller board does not. Did you see this post and what is your thoughts. From what I understand, you are not using the BoC. I just don't want to make a mistake on this purchase
Thanks
Dark Hawke
CaptJack,
Looking at your video, I am a bit confused why your cutting away the base skull hole? Where is your swivel point - inside the skeleton? You should try to get it as close to the skull base hole as possible. It will do wonders. And open your holes up on your bracket. If you move the bracket around with the skull plate mounted, you will find center of gravity faster (I hope that makes since). Basically, what we do after we mount the servo plate to the skull, with the rod axis attached, we loosen up the bracket and move it around, off the axis rod, until we find the center point of the skull. You will know you have found it when the skull seems balance. Tighten it up and run your routine. If you notice drag, go back and move the bracket opposite of the drag. It takes us about five minutes to balance one and once done, it does wonders with movement and reducing the servo sound.
And the pause with the my name about the servo boards.... to much rum????
Aye, too much rum indeed...I was thinking of about thirty things at that moment, some of them had skirts and quickly had to sort them (my head needed a faster processor, or more rum.. I mean ram...)
I'm using Bluckys right now (blew this years budget on skulls and servos) so the neck is small.. I know I will be having a difficut time mating the bottom of the rod to something other than blown plastic. I think I had decided on a tapped hole in a 5' piece of re-bar in the ground, to screw the bottom of the rod into...
I think I realized the rod hole is a lil too far aft to get the skull to balance, if I bottom out the rod end, up against the L-bracket, I can move the CG a lil more forward, as the skull, without any linkages to the servos, is a bit nose heavy. Adding a lil counter weight (some lead fishing sinkers) to the back of the servo plate would do the same thing( and prob be a lot easier. For centering the CG inside the skull I can move everything up or down the rod just a little to try to put more of the weight above or below the rod end attach point.. Still some adjustments needed, I hope I'm on the roight track..
Captain,
I read a post a little while back comparing the Skultronix BoC and some other controller board. The BoC is quite a bit more money, but the article explained that the BoC comes with all cables (and the LED eyes) where the other controller board does not. Did you see this post and what is your thoughts. From what I understand, you are not using the BoC. I just don't want to make a mistake on this purchase
Thanks
Dark Hawke
Aye, the Lynxmotion SSC32 is without a power supply, LED pins or cables but.. it does not require a OpenDMX dongle($50 box) to make only 32 servos (to BoC's 16) work either. So if you go with the BoC, you will pay $149, plus another $50 for the DMX box to get ONE set of eyes. Granted DMX does make movement smoother, and it can be used for lighting, but it controls only 16 servos(4 skulls), to Lynx's 32(8 skulls), to add more is another $149 to Lynx's $40. BoC is not -specifically designed- for Hitec servos, Lynx is.. Would you add $159 on a power supply, cables for the Lynx? No. The additional slots on the Lynx can run relays, and control lights too, so you're still 16 servos or relays ahead of BoC.
To answer quickly, I dont use BoC, dont plan on using one as I dont have $$ to waste. Would I buy one? Only if it were $50-$100 cheaper.
and quickly had to sort them 
(my head needed a faster processor, or more rum.. I mean ram...)
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