Thread: Small Self Contained Servo control Help

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I'm throwing myself to the mercy of the board, as I know there are MANY smarter people on here than me.

I'm still a newbie with servos and their controller boards, and animation in general (use talking skulls AKA Scary Terry style, wiper motor props, etc). I'd like to put together or purchase a small self-contained controller board and servo (1-2) kit that could be worn as part of a costume and triggered with a switch to just turn, gyrate, etc. For our Halloween party this year, we are doing a zombie prom theme. My wife will be 8 months pregnant by then. I'm thinking of creating a way of having arms (corpsified baby or alien) sticking out of her stomach that will move when she triggers it by a button or something similar. It only needs to move a bit to freak some people, nothing fancy and no sound necessary. However, I'd like it to be able to run off a battery pack and do either a programmed move or a general move/rotation for a few seconds and stop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

hm..... most servo control systems are computer linked which you wont want as part of a costume...... this is prop-1 territory.

This probably means that the servo control board you have is no good.... there are cheaper and better ways of doing this, but without much experience you are probably best off with a prop-1

That's exactly my issue. I don't mind hooking it up to a computer to program a chip, but then I want it to be able to run by itself off a battery pack like the Scary Terry audio servo boards can.

I've found these now that I've posted to ask everyone. Any other ideas would still be appreciated. This is kind of what I'm looking for:



This one is more of a manual control:
http://www.servocity.com/html/dual_servo_driver.html


This one is more automatic:
http://www.servocity.com/html/servo_...ck_contro.html

hm, now you have me thinking, how about one of these, you can record a 4 minute routine on them

http://www.milinst.com/animatronics/1_919.pdf

US seller link

http://www.bpesolutions.com/PuppetEq...ml#anchor39419