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Progress so far. Finished painting (handle is finished as well but i don't have a pic available at the moment). Also finally finished the laser panel. So left is LED cabeling to the LED shield and motor joints+cabeling.
I expect to finish lighting by june and movement by august if all goes as planned.
INFO:
Arduino stuff used:
Arduino UNO
Adafruit Motor ShieldV2
Adafruit LED Driver 24-Channel
This is the first time I work with an Arduino so it is kind a new challenge for me. At least fading multiple LEDs works good so far.
The power management will be a bit tricky since I need a lot of different voltages for the leds(series of 3,4,6 and single), motors and the Arduino.
I had a bit trouble with choosing the right batteries something with enough power + easily chargeable is needed.
At first I got LiPo batteries but you have to be quite carefull with charging so in the end I got NiMh batteries with 1,2V and 2850mAh not idea how long they will last in the Monado but I hope it's enough for a Cosplay evening.
Still not sure if I will use 10 NiMh for 12V or 15NiMh for 18V the later would require lots of resistors ans some complex wiring.
Another problem is space the Monado it looks quite big but space is rather limited in the inside. Only the core and handle can used for electronics and batteries the other parts need to be as light as possible so they can be moved by motors. Good thing about the Arduino are all the Shields that solve a lot of problems in advance. With the Motorshield you can easily control 4 DC motors without worrying about electrical knockback/polution since it handles everything. The LED driver allows to control 24 PWM Channels for fading Leds. At the beginning I planned on using a lot of transistors and wiring the Led driver makes things so much easier
For Charging I will use a RC Power BC6 Charger that one recognises the amount of cells in your self build rechargable battery pack and has a loadbalancer + delta peak.
So far I learned a lot about Arduino, batteries + charging and Transistors. Most likely I will have to learn a lot more for completing this project I'm pretty sure there a still a lot of problems yet to come but so far it was a lot of fun
I expect to finish lighting by june and movement by august if all goes as planned.
INFO:
Arduino stuff used:
Arduino UNO
Adafruit Motor ShieldV2
Adafruit LED Driver 24-Channel
This is the first time I work with an Arduino so it is kind a new challenge for me. At least fading multiple LEDs works good so far.
The power management will be a bit tricky since I need a lot of different voltages for the leds(series of 3,4,6 and single), motors and the Arduino.
I had a bit trouble with choosing the right batteries something with enough power + easily chargeable is needed.
At first I got LiPo batteries but you have to be quite carefull with charging so in the end I got NiMh batteries with 1,2V and 2850mAh not idea how long they will last in the Monado but I hope it's enough for a Cosplay evening.
Still not sure if I will use 10 NiMh for 12V or 15NiMh for 18V the later would require lots of resistors ans some complex wiring.
Another problem is space the Monado it looks quite big but space is rather limited in the inside. Only the core and handle can used for electronics and batteries the other parts need to be as light as possible so they can be moved by motors. Good thing about the Arduino are all the Shields that solve a lot of problems in advance. With the Motorshield you can easily control 4 DC motors without worrying about electrical knockback/polution since it handles everything. The LED driver allows to control 24 PWM Channels for fading Leds. At the beginning I planned on using a lot of transistors and wiring the Led driver makes things so much easier
For Charging I will use a RC Power BC6 Charger that one recognises the amount of cells in your self build rechargable battery pack and has a loadbalancer + delta peak.
So far I learned a lot about Arduino, batteries + charging and Transistors. Most likely I will have to learn a lot more for completing this project I'm pretty sure there a still a lot of problems yet to come but so far it was a lot of fun
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ITS SOOO NICEEEE Is there any way to get it