Engineering, we need more power!
I’m still hashing out some design ideas for my motion control system. I’m in the process of determining if stepper motors or servos would give me the best fluid motion, strength and accuracy of position. Right now, I am using a Phidgets 4 channel servo control board, 4 heavy duty servos, and a small LittleChips singleboard computer running Linux and some custom software to test the motion ideas out. Since I’m having flash problems with the SBC I am going to hopefully get the whole control app redesigned and written on my Mac Mini. I’d rather have a very solid system / user interface for programming the motion system. I eventually see it as 3D interface that is one is able to program camera movements, paths, keyframes from. I think it would be even better if I can write a plugin for 3DS Max that can control a moving camera system. Design your scene in 3D, then set up a 3DS camera that actually controls the real thing around a model. I have a lot of ideas but little time to lend to the project.
