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Panoboter – 2 servos, more than 1300 lines of code

Davide Gomba — July 5th, 2010

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]

Categories:InspirationMotorsPhotoServo

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5 Responses to “Panoboter – 2 servos, more than 1300 lines of code”

  1. Ernest Beinrohr Says:
    July 9th, 2010 at 19:12:24

    Omg, that is fantastic, I quite envy you 😉 Wonderful work

  2. Panobotor, a DIY panoramic and orbital panorama machine | All my RSS Says:
    July 9th, 2010 at 19:31:24

    […] included, however it looks like you are on your own for choosing the construction materials. [via tinker.it] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Photography | Digg […]

  3. Panobotor, a DIY panoramic and orbital panorama machine | SquareCows Says:
    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] […]

  4. Numerique07 Says:
    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.

  5. d.gomba@arduino.cc Says:
    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

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