[PD] Marionette Control

Burt brialey at juno.com
Fri Oct 8 06:15:08 CEST 2004


Hans,

More info would be awesome.  I really respect the work you have done for pd.  Do you have any online documentation of some of your projects like pictures or movies?  I would be excited to know what the motors looked like and did, and where you acquired them.

Samuel Burt




-- Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:

I did this using using relays hooked directly to the parallel port.  I  
was controlling some pretty hefty motors, well over 1 amp, for example.  
  You can see my code where:

http://cvs.at.or.at/viewcvs.cgi/arw/

I can dig up more info if you are interested...

.hc

On Sep 25, 2004, at 9:33 AM, Samuel B Burt wrote:

> Hi group!
>  
> 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.
>  
> I checked out makingthings.com because I had heard about their  
> Max-motor interaction products.  They sent me the following response  
> to my inquiry:
>  
>         Hi Samuel.  While we have intermittently run into interest
>         in having Teleo interact with PD, this interest has not,
>          unfortunately, been enough to warrant the time and effort
>          it would take us to develop it.  So, as of now the answer is
>          sadly no.  This is not set in stone, however, and it is  
> possible
>          that at some point in the future, we'll move ahead with  
> development
>         for PD, either based on a general growing interest or in  
> response to a
>         particular job that we're doing.  But for the moment, it's not  
> very
>          high on our list of priorities.
>
> Also, I am told that their products are really designed to move  
> smaller objects.  Our life-size wooden marionette would probably be  
> too heavy and wear the parts out too quickly.  If anyone has any  
> suggestions, they would be very appreciated.
>  
> Samuel Burt
>  
>  
>  
>

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