Robotics, Circuits, Mechanics, Servo Motors, Controls and etc 

Great Links

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The Amazing Classic Rock-afire Explosion!

• Aaron Fechter's World of Animatronics

Electronics

Reynolds Electronics

• PIC™ based products
• Micro-Bot Robotics Experiments
• Servo Control Projects

Motion Software

• Brookshire Software  (projects here)
  • Visual Show Automation (VSA) (Sevros, SSC, DMX, SV203)
  • The Remote Advanced Playback Unit (RAPU)
  • Research and Development
  • How Servos Work
  • How SSC's Work

Motion Control

• MicroLogix 1000 System (Rockwell Automation)
• Rockwell Automation Product Catalogs
• Motion Control Training on eBay items

Animatronics

• Garner Holt Productions (contractors/builders)
• Gilderfluke & Co. (designs and manufactures Animation Control Systems) For full blown amusement parks - World Wide
• Android World
• Android Tracking Motion  mpg file
• Craig's Robotics & Animatronics Site
• Controlling Creatures with Linux
• Hardware of the Interbots
• E-Clec-Tech  (Lots of Kits)

 

Animatronics Controllers

• Pontech (servo motor controllers - SV203)
• Blue Point Engineering
• BASIC Stamp microcontroller (Parallax tutorials)
• Parallax EFX (Special Effects Controls, Magic FX)
  • Especially for prop builders and FX engineers
• Light Shows and Effects
• Animation Processors  (total production - software - light - sound - motion)
• Animatronics
• Milford Instruments Ltd
• Control Manufacturers
• VooDooFX
• Product Reports Center  (compares / remarks on various controllers)
• The Robot Store  (indexed to page controllers)

Halloween Animatronics

• Scary Terry Halloween Page
• The Boneyard
• Boneyard Bargains

Servo Motors

• Servo City

Pneumatic

• PNEUMATIC SUPPLIES (Air valves, Cylinders, Fittings)
  Pneumatic Animatronics Prop Design
• PNEUMATIC  Parts, and kits
• Pneumatic Controlers - Lots of Halloween Stuff too
• Prop, lighting and animation controllers

Electronic Learning / Software Tools

• Capacitor Code Calculator
• Schematica (FREE software on 555 timers and resistors)

Electronic Circuits

• Aaron Cake
• Tony van Roon
• 567 Tone Decoder

Robot Stores / Parts / Electronic Kits

• Robot Store
• Electronix Express
• Jameco Robotic Store Complete Robotic Kits - Parts and More
• Android/Humanoid/Animatronic Head

Find Sounds / Material for your Production

• Find Sounds

Visual Basic Code / DLL's and Etc.

• vbAccelerator

Disneyland Animatronics

• Tiki Room
  • Disneyland Tiki Room (Video)
  • Disneyland Enchanted Tiki Room - Original Show (Video)
    Walt Disney introduces the Tike Room with hostess
  • Walt Disney - Enchanted Tiki Room (Video)
    Shows behind the scenes computer equipment
  •   Tiki men at Disneyland
    Shows good view of Storm Windows
  • Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room Disneyland PART ONE
  • Disneyland- Enchanted Tiki Room Attraction Video part 2

 

• Disney's Audio Animatronics
  Walt Disney Intro
• Disney Imagineering - Audio Animatronics
  Great behind the scenes on animatronics
• Disneyland Goes To The 1964 Worlds Fair (Magic Skyway)
• Disney Animatronics
  A look in the forbidden building of especial effects
  Intro of the new model A-100
  
• Goggle Keywords "Disneyland Animatronics"

Robots in Action

• Hanson Robotics

 

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