Animatronic Pokemon

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Introduction

These animatronic pokemon where created for the 2011 WPI CDP. The electronics and mechanics where built by us and the skin was made by by Sam and Rae crafts[1]

Hardware

The Motors are all hobby servos. They where controlled by a DyIO + Bluetooth to Serial converter.

Software

The full software can be found here[2]. What is shown below is the code for one of the pokemon.

class Bulbasaur implements Runnable {
	// Constants
	private static final int BulbasaurHeadMax = 0;
	private static final int BulbasaurHeadMid = 37;
	private static final int BulbasaurHeadMin = 140;

	private DyIO myDyIO;
	private ServoChannel BulbasaurHead;
	private Random generator;
	
	public Bulbasaur(DyIO dyio){
		myDyIO = dyio;
		generator = new Random();
		BulbasaurHead = new ServoChannel (dyio.getChannel(23));
	}
	
    @Override
	public void run() {
		try {
		while(true){
			int action = generator.nextInt(4);
			BulbasaurHead.SetPosition(BulbasaurHeadMin, action);
			Thread.sleep(generator.nextInt(10)*1000);
			BulbasaurHead.SetPosition(BulbasaurHeadMax, action);
			Thread.sleep(generator.nextInt(10)*1000);

		}
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
    }
}