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I am like a CPU... I need to be cold down to work best
11 years ago
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Yesterday was the first rely cold day sens the spring, except for some rainy day.... in fact it was cold and sunny, the kind of weather that simply boost me up...
The fact is that i work best went it cold, between 18C and 20c is where i am at my peek, yesterday i started the impossible task to clean my apartment, seriously that was a total mess, lot of dirty dishes everywhere, pill of electronic stuff on the table, plastic bag and paper everywhere, the floor was nor better, full of random thing in plastic bac or just laying on the floor...Seriously.... a MESS!!!!
So i pass all of my day cleaning, i was like full of energy compare to the fews last month where i was kind of depress and without energy...
Did i am the only one that get energy from colder weather?
Any way, went i will finish cleaning, i will be able to finally get back to work on my fursuit, about that i am rely exited, because today, or tomorow i should recive my micro OLED display, this thing is awesomely small like .96" and should fit inside my fursuit head just betwen my eye in the nose, it have a 128X64 pixel, so it will be enough to display all info on the animatronic part, EX: Mood , position of the eyes , the ears and the tail. Also i will ass a temp sensor in the head that will control the fan, went it got over Xc the fan will start and stop went it drop under, of coarse then temps will be show on the OLED screen, so i could keep tract...
Like you See the possibility are infinite, so i have to refrain my self, because right now, i working too much on the animatronic\arduino part and not enoug on the fursuit it self, what is worry my a little.
Also... i am working on a stand alone animatronic tail base, that did not use micro controler and is realy basic, so probably realy cheap to produce and sell to people who like one... so i will like to know if any one have interest for that.... basicly the tail will sweep from side to side in a regular movement with a control for the speed... i could make it got up and down too, but i will need a controler in this case, so maybe a little more costy.
The fact is that i work best went it cold, between 18C and 20c is where i am at my peek, yesterday i started the impossible task to clean my apartment, seriously that was a total mess, lot of dirty dishes everywhere, pill of electronic stuff on the table, plastic bag and paper everywhere, the floor was nor better, full of random thing in plastic bac or just laying on the floor...Seriously.... a MESS!!!!
So i pass all of my day cleaning, i was like full of energy compare to the fews last month where i was kind of depress and without energy...
Did i am the only one that get energy from colder weather?
Any way, went i will finish cleaning, i will be able to finally get back to work on my fursuit, about that i am rely exited, because today, or tomorow i should recive my micro OLED display, this thing is awesomely small like .96" and should fit inside my fursuit head just betwen my eye in the nose, it have a 128X64 pixel, so it will be enough to display all info on the animatronic part, EX: Mood , position of the eyes , the ears and the tail. Also i will ass a temp sensor in the head that will control the fan, went it got over Xc the fan will start and stop went it drop under, of coarse then temps will be show on the OLED screen, so i could keep tract...
Like you See the possibility are infinite, so i have to refrain my self, because right now, i working too much on the animatronic\arduino part and not enoug on the fursuit it self, what is worry my a little.
Also... i am working on a stand alone animatronic tail base, that did not use micro controler and is realy basic, so probably realy cheap to produce and sell to people who like one... so i will like to know if any one have interest for that.... basicly the tail will sweep from side to side in a regular movement with a control for the speed... i could make it got up and down too, but i will need a controler in this case, so maybe a little more costy.
I am interested in seeing how your head progresses. Me and a friend have been talking about adding more electronics into his fursuit heads. You want to check this out its a paper done for Disney on costume controls: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rys/research.....tongue_device/
I must admit it chalanging to find a way to control movement.... many people seam to use flex sensor, you can add them to your glove, so you only have to ben a finger to make a part move, the avantage is that you got a precise control... down side it realy easy to figure it out.
A good example will be this awsome fure suit.... just watch his hand went he make his ears move...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKCcuX_MF9k
for my part i am going to use something like this, i will hide it in one of my finger glove paws, by taking out the button cap it will save space and be able to have 5 button for only 3 wire
http://www.dx.com/p/ad-keyboard-sim.....1#.VA4vOfmssZE
i was also thinking about adding a tums stick to have manual control over the tail, but event with the cap out it still realy big
http://www.dx.com/p/qj-xm1121-new-a.....8#.VA4xQ_mssZE
I also have a bluetooth conected, so i could send comand direct with out wire...
well the possibility are infinite lol
That button setup isn't that hard of a setup if you wanted to make your own. Its just a set of resistors and you chose which one(s) the voltage passes through by pressing the buttons.
I should ask what county are you in, just so I have an idea of what suppliers you have easy shipping from. Since you are working with arduino there are a other advanced possibilities you can get for sensors like reading heart rate, state of certain muscle groups and brain waves. But some of these I only know of from US companies.
I'm just thinking of another fursuiter that uses a little animatronics in his head
I was thinking making the button set my self, but sense what i found seam to do the job, i probably try it to save time, but i may consider making it for a future fursuit.
Yep i hade see Crazyjoe1952 animatrinic blue fox on youtube, it prety awsome.... sense my charactor is a mouse i am still not sure how to make ear move for a interesting effect like his, it something i have to work on:)