Apologies for the generic ‘my desk in the studio’ photograph. Tomorrow is the Make Mark 1 hand in. Here’s how I expect it to go…
Since the beginning of the Make Phase I have been striving to get my stepper motor system working. I had wanted to use steppers because of the 360˚ movement it would enable. However, after spending a good few hours in the workshop building the casing for the WiiMote and attaching it to the dummy CCTV camera shell I have I realised that the entire unit will be just too heavy for the steppers and that the type of movement will be too jerky.
Still, what I have is a very dirty proof of concept which will suffice for the purposes of Make Mark 1. I have however been shown a pitch and an servo kit on Cool Components. Initially I thought it was a bit too small and flimsy but the more I thought about it I began to realise that for what I’m trying to achieve it would be perfect. So I ordered it.
I have spent the past few hours starting from scratch (kinda) again with a new arduino and a couple of servos. I much prefer the servo approach actually and my initial fears and dislikes of servos (e.g: 180˚ movement range) is fast disappearing.
I think I won’t actually be able to tell if this is going to work well until I get the goods, but here’s hoping that the servos in the foreground of the photo above will retire my shaky attempts with stepper motors.
