{"id":115,"date":"2008-05-17T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-05-21T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T04:54:07","slug":"remote-control-robo-dolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/remote-control-robo-dolly\/","title":{"rendered":"… remote control robo-dolly …"},"content":{"rendered":"

[demo movie at bottom of post]<\/p>\n

My childhood friend is back! Robotix<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago I scored a Robotix kit online. I had no idea they had gone wireless at some point during the 90’s. Actually … I had no clue they were even still making<\/em> them in the 90’s. <\/p>\n

I used some Robotix in 1998 to create a robotic prosthetic arm\/fishing pole in my early film Humanidad Aterrorizado<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[click to check out the film]<\/a>
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\n\"...<\/a><\/p>\n

After I got them in the mail, I combined them with the set I had when I grew up. Here is the remote control dolly I constructed out of them:<\/p>\n

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I modified one of the small Robotix pieces to hold the camera thread. It can go forward, backward, left and right. I can put the camera on a crane and have it rotate on a variety of axis.<\/p>\n

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I will be using it in some capacity while shooting the video for “Combat”.<\/p>\n

Here are some tests shots done in single frame animation (shot with a Canon A640 is continuous burst shooting mode). This is the slowest<\/em> I can get my footage to look given the shooting rate of the camera. I need to work on stabilizing the camera and getting some motion timing issues figured out.<\/p>\n

\nThe soundtrack for the video experiment was all done with a beta version of my new VSTi – SK-crooner. It is a human vocal synth based on samples from the 1980’s 8 bit sampling keyboard, the Casio SK-1. I worked on it for a while today and it’s starting to come together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~ 2mb
\n(This is not<\/em> live action video – it’s time lapse. I’ll try some robo-dolly video soon).<\/p>\n

Double click to play:<\/p>\n

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[demo movie at bottom of post] My childhood friend is back! Robotix! A few weeks ago I scored a Robotix kit online. I had no idea they had gone wireless at some point during the 90’s. Actually … I had …<\/p>\n

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