I ordered 3 sample PIC12F629 chips from Microchip to play with and bought a big bag of capacitors, and I'm all set to build the landtastic circuit. Hopefully I can adapt this design to work with my dragon - I definitely do not want to have to spend the time building up a program in assembly from scratch it there are functional systems out there already!
Servos are amazing things. Tell them to move and they get right to it and go to exactly where you told them to be within milliseconds. Dragons are much lazier, and might make it there eventually if you ask them nicely. Maybe. So the servos inside a dragon need to learn to relax a bit, take their time and meander their way to their destination slowly. I've been doing that in software to make the neck move nice and smooth, but once I add the legs and wings the load on the arduino is going to be too much and everything will slow down unreliably, making the movements very jerky and not in the least bit smooth. I found a design online for an RC landing gear which makes the servo act over a much slower timeframe, up to about 10 seconds long. This sounds more dragon like already.
I ordered 3 sample PIC12F629 chips from Microchip to play with and bought a big bag of capacitors, and I'm all set to build the landtastic circuit. Hopefully I can adapt this design to work with my dragon - I definitely do not want to have to spend the time building up a program in assembly from scratch it there are functional systems out there already!
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