Panoboter – 2 servos, more than 1300 lines of code
July 5th, 2010
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Arduino forum [mhemhe] shared on [OpenRise.com] a very peculiar creation: the Panoboter,
a lightwight robot for spheric and multirow panorama for a dslr camera. I’m using one arduino mini pro as main controller and for controlling and drive the servo a pololu servo controller.
Congratulation for the work and effort, and sucha good detailed internet page to take not of it!
more info after the break
Main controller
- Arduino Pro Mini ATmega328
- HD44870-compatible LCD (Ebay)
- RotaryEncoder with push function for user-interaction
- Trimmer for LCD contrast
- Pushbutton for “back” function
Material cost (rounded, excluding shipping)
- servos: 2 x 40$: 80$
- arduino mini pro: 20$
- pololu servo controller: 20$
- alu tubes: 20$
- display: 10$
- rotary encoder, buttons, optocoupler, … 20$
- camera shutter cable: 30$
- shafts, gears, adaptors and srews: 100$
some interesting 3d pics from different point of view:
via [mhemhe] and [OpenRise.com]
July 9th, 2010 at 19:12:24
Omg, that is fantastic, I quite envy you 😉 Wonderful work
July 9th, 2010 at 19:31:24
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July 10th, 2010 at 11:01:03
[…] Mhepekka created this excellent looking Panobotor robot, to take panoramic and orbital and photos using a DSLR camera. The kitchen and forest samples look astounding! They used an Arduino, a couple of servos, and some off-the-shelf hardware to build the project. Source code and schematic are included, however it looks like you are on your own for choosing the construction materials. [via tinker.it] […]
August 15th, 2011 at 21:18:27
Hi,
On used material there is :
“rotary encoder, buttons, optocoupler, … 20$”
Rotary encoder : Is that a potentiometer or an optical rotary encoder ?
Great work.
August 30th, 2011 at 09:37:33
hi.
if you need more infor about the rotary encoder, read here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder
best
davide