MMM v3 BEC questions

Originally Posted by TexasSP

You peaked my interest, now need a video!

This video is from Sept 2007. It's the best video we have at night.

And here's our Media page

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Originally Posted by coreyfro

This video is from Sept 2007. It's the best video we have at night.

And here's our Media page

Did you stop and see Cyclovision while Castle was at Burning Man in 2007?

We did a 6 x 3 foot 3D projection system (picture 10,000 RGB LEDs rotating at 300 miles per hour creating a 1 million voxel viewing volume...) we called Cyclovision. It's still together, but we didn't make it to Burning Man for 2008 ('cause of the Monster issues...)

No! I tried to google you with no luck. Are you related to Cubatron?

I think I heard about Cyclovision, but I didn't get to see anything, I was busy working 4 F'N PROJECTS!

Steampunk tree house (I did a bunch of CNC plasma cutting for it, and helped with roll out but not setup)
Orb Swarm (I was the Playa Proof Puter/mothernode guru during the event)
Neverwas Haul (mainly my wife's project, but I hang out with them because they are serious about relaxing.)
Critically Single (Speed dating on wheels...don't ask)

I haven't simply ENJOYED the event in 4 years...and I've loved every minute of it.

Have you been to the Maker Faires? If not, you should go, especially since the sheer number of robotics nerds there is staggering and would probably be great bidness for CC.

I'm sure the voxel display would be great at maker faire, too.

I saw a bunch of CC signs at Robogames but I didn't see a booth.

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

Did you stop and see Cyclovision while Castle was at Burning Man in 2007?

We did a 6 x 3 foot 3D projection system (picture 10,000 RGB LEDs rotating at 300 miles per hour creating a 1 million voxel viewing volume...) we called Cyclovision. It's still together, but we didn't make it to Burning Man for 2008 ('cause of the Monster issues...)

Damn Monster!

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Originally Posted by coreyfro

No! I tried to google you with no luck. Are you related to Cubatron?

I think I heard about Cyclovision, but I didn't get to see anything, I was busy working 4 F'N PROJECTS!

Steampunk tree house (I did a bunch of CNC plasma cutting for it, and helped with roll out but not setup)
Orb Swarm (I was the Playa Proof Puter/mothernode guru during the event)
Neverwas Haul (mainly my wife's project, but I hang out with them because they are serious about relaxing.)
Critically Single (Speed dating on wheels...don't ask)

I haven't simply ENJOYED the event in 4 years...and I've loved every minute of it.

Have you been to the Maker Faires? If not, you should go, especially since the sheer number of robotics nerds there is staggering and would probably be great bidness for CC.

I'm sure the voxel display would be great at maker faire, too.

I saw a bunch of CC signs at Robogames but I didn't see a booth.



Damn Monster!

Loved the Steampunk Treehouse! Richard and Jon and I look for the Orb Swarm the whole time we were there -- was one of the things we really wanted to see. . . but never caught it. My wife saw something similar (robot dogs that protected a camp area -- was pretty cool...) but I missed it...

Here's some pictures of Cyclovision (Sorry -- I don't mean to 'jack your thread!)

Cyclovision being put together on the Playa: (Look close and you can see the FPGAs and LEDs -- There is also 128GB of memory in the stack -- yes 128 GIGAbytes -- all the animation was stored in Flash)



(The fat guy is me...)



And some bad shots of some of the play: (1000 RPM rotation -- 3D images)

Synthia:



Animated Fireworks:

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And BTW -- We will be at Burning Man in 2009.

So please, ask if you need any assistance for Burning Man projects.

OH. So the theme this year is Evolution, and Flaming Lotus Girls had "Mutopia" last year. Big f'n plants that shoot fire. We're thinking Mutopia would be perfect for the Evolution theme, and we're brainstorming ways to make critters for Mutopia. Maybe 1/18th scale trucks disguised as cockroaches are in order! ;-)

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

And BTW -- We will be at Burning Man in 2009.

So please, ask if you need any assistance for Burning Man projects.

That is awesome, and if I know anything about voxel displays, photos are several orders of magnitude less cool than seeing it in person!

I was lucky enough to learn about SPTH very early on and, when I first heard about it, I thought "That is EXACTLY the best platform from which to propose to Hallie!" I worked my rear off to make that happen.

That story is here. We got married at Maker Faire in May.

I'll let you know of Orb Swarm does gigs any time soon, we do travel nationally. I think we are all gigged out at the moment.

As far as how CC can help, I don't want to ask for hand outs, but if I think of anything, I'll let you know.

I will say that I envision the MMM and a low KV motor as the item to pick for the "Off The Shelf Swarm" and once I get further on this project, since we are totally open source, you are free and invited to bring your own swarmable bots to play with ours.

If I had to make a wish, however, if there was anyway to get an RPM count out of the MMM (for robo dead reckoning) it would be a huge boon for robo-nerds everywhere.

I've though about simple watching and counting the pulses off the motor leads, but I haven't played with that yet and it does go a little against the "off the shelf"ness of the project. I know that I cannot expect this project to be without work from the user, but I wanted to reduce that as much as possible.

Dead reckoning is one of about 6 of the inputs to our kalman filter for orb swarm. I know it's noisy, but it's very important for keeping our GPS readings sane.

If you are ever in SF, lemme know. Coreyfro@coreyfro.com

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

Loved the Steampunk Treehouse! Richard and Jon and I look for the Orb Swarm the whole time we were there -- was one of the things we really wanted to see. . . but never caught it. My wife saw something similar (robot dogs that protected a camp area -- was pretty cool...) but I missed it...

Here's some pictures of Cyclovision (Sorry -- I don't mean to 'jack your thread!)

Cyclovision being put together on the Playa: (Look close and you can see the FPGAs and LEDs -- There is also 128GB of memory in the stack -- yes 128 GIGAbytes -- all the animation was stored in Flash)