[PD] Marionette Control

[RTaylor]

Samuel B Burt <brialey at juno.com> wrote:

> I am sure some of you have experimented with using PD to control motors. 
> My friend Joel Grip is planning to build a giant marionette puppet in his
> wood working class at the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art that we
> will use in our multi-media improvisations.  The goal would be to perform
> live with acoustic instruments and/or computer generated/manipulated
> sound and have the marionette move in reaction to our playing.  What I
> would like to know is where to find information on what types of motors
> to buy and how to interact them with PD.

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/step/
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/related_links.html
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/Touch/
http://servomaster.sourceforge.net/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Robotics/Companies/?il=1

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