StampNut2:
You could reduce the resolution and recompress it.
If they can make 2 hour movies look good for under 700 MB, I'm sure you can make your 5 minute movie look good and
keep the filesize small.
VLC media player has some transcoding options... and ffmpeg can convert almost anything to almost anything else... though
its a bit hard to learn (command line).
There are several other programs out there to convert/reduce files. I just like these cause they are open souce and...
free.
On a bit more on-topic note... can you tell us the scale of Wall-E? Heightxwidth and such?
What kind of programming are you going to give it? Are you going to include some way for it to talk?
Looks like I'm going to have to investigate this movie thing, Thanks for the info. As for scale, It's 150mmW x 160mm H x 160mmL box not including the head and neck, These are 140mmL x 24mmW, The head is 120mmL x 140mmW x 65mmD. Arms 100mmL x 20mmW and the hands are 80mmL x 30mmW.. The Mattrack base is 250mmW x 160mmL. Hope this helps.
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Wow - awesome Wall-E recreation StampNut2!! Very, very nice.
I wonder if Radio Shack is getting the hint that they need to sell just a Mattrack kit or do they really think everyone is buying the Hummer for the hummer?
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I wonder if Radio Shack is getting the hint that they need to sell just a Mattrack kit?
Timothy,
I would be nice if someone would. (maybe even Parallax could find a source - hint, hint) They are really nice. With the Hummer on sale at $60 - paying $30 for a pair is not terrible. I know if you could just buy the mattracks, they could do better.
StampNut2,
Looking forward to the video. Also visited the robocommunity site - WALL-E is looking great!
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
Timothy D. Swieter Thanks for your comments, Yes I would agree that if the Mattracks could be sold as a kit would be great, How can we push this????
Whit I thought you might take another look, Have now uploaded two video's of Wall-E, Also we have uploaded a digest of Wall-E which incorporates 50 Photo's out of 150 that have been taken so far. We will make an article when the whole project is finished and include ALL photo's.
jbod No they do not, It will depend on what you use for motive power, servos or gear motors, Then you have to machine the hex rod. You can use steel hex or nylon rod but which ever you use you will have to do some form of machining to mate it with your motive power source.
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If you take a look at T0m's thread, concerning·his Mattracks equipped BoeBot, from last year, you will notice that he had purchased all of the spare Mattracks from Radio Shack and was trying to negotiate a Mattrack production contract with the manufacturer in China that had made the Mattracks for Radio Shack.
As far as I know, T0m never followed up on that thread concerning the production of the Mattracks with the manufacturer in China.
Regards,
TCIII
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Ha Ha Ha, Wall-E has many secrets, One being Sal-E, And if Tall-E sees her, I will have no problems with Tall-E Bothering me Ha Ha. Check out the LEDs in Wall-E's head Whit. Tell your son, Nice pic BTW.
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If I get a set of these nice motors and wheels a large Wall-E would be great, GWjax is thinking of building a larger version [noparse][[/noparse]Robocommunity] We may build one together. That would mean that we could make everything work. I can see your eyes lighting up Whit!!!!!!!
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Let me know what you find out Whit about about TOm and manufacturing. I take on some adventerous projects some times. I would consider designing our own and getting them fabbed over here in China, but there would have to be suffecient volume to cover the molds and design time. If TOm has a lead on the manufacturer, than that is huge. If the manufacturer is in the lower part of China (Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzho), then maybe I could help by visiting them on an "off day".
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Timothy D. Swieter
www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP www.tdswieter.com
One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
I wrote Radio Shack a note and asked about ordering the Mattracks by themselves. They sent the following reply-
"The Mattracks are available with the wheel. Your local RadioShack store can order them for you. Catalog numbers are Left/ RSU 12458907 $11.69 & Right/RSU 12458923 $11.69."
That would be $23.38 a pair. Not bad till I find out some more information. So we should be able to take these numbers to our local stores and order a pair.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
Wow Whit!· Good digging.· If it is that easy and the product is readily available, then I say go for it.· US$24/pair is an outstanding price!· Outstanding!
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www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP www.tdswieter.com
One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
I went and ordered a set of Mattracks today. As they said the Left Assembly and Right Assembly were $11.69 each. They will ship them to my house for $4.50 (it would be the same shipped to the store). That makes the total with the tax here - $30.67 for a pair.
When they come in, I will let you know if all is well. I told the folks a Radio Shack - "WE" might be ordering some more. They said eventually they would run out - since these are replacement parts - but till then, at least we have a source.
StampNut2 - WALL-E is looking great. Love the weathered Mattracks.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
The tricky part is attaching or·coupling·the servo/motor to the Mattrack (and avoiding the servo/motor carrying the load) and allowing the Mattracks to move (with some sort of suspension) with the mount.
Hope this helps.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
Jbod: There's nothing hard and fast here to attaching any motor/gear box if you have a bit of knowledge in engineering, If you have not then you need to find something that you can use off the shelf, Otherwise make some slight modifications like I did to make mine work. Follow this digest for some info, Afull article will be done when Wall-E is finished. www.robocommunity.com/article/13007/Wall-E-Robot--Homebuilt-Project-Step-By-Step-Digest/
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You could reduce the resolution and recompress it.
If they can make 2 hour movies look good for under 700 MB, I'm sure you can make your 5 minute movie look good and
keep the filesize small.
VLC media player has some transcoding options... and ffmpeg can convert almost anything to almost anything else... though
its a bit hard to learn (command line).
There are several other programs out there to convert/reduce files. I just like these cause they are open souce and...
free.
On a bit more on-topic note... can you tell us the scale of Wall-E? Heightxwidth and such?
What kind of programming are you going to give it? Are you going to include some way for it to talk?
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Wow - awesome Wall-E recreation StampNut2!! Very, very nice.
I wonder if Radio Shack is getting the hint that they need to sell just a Mattrack kit or do they really think everyone is buying the Hummer for the hummer?
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Timothy D. Swieter
www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP
www.tdswieter.com
One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
Timothy,
I would be nice if someone would. (maybe even Parallax could find a source - hint, hint) They are really nice. With the Hummer on sale at $60 - paying $30 for a pair is not terrible. I know if you could just buy the mattracks, they could do better.
StampNut2,
Looking forward to the video. Also visited the robocommunity site - WALL-E is looking great!
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
Whit I thought you might take another look, Have now uploaded two video's of Wall-E, Also we have uploaded a digest of Wall-E which incorporates 50 Photo's out of 150 that have been taken so far. We will make an article when the whole project is finished and include ALL photo's.
jbod No they do not, It will depend on what you use for motive power, servos or gear motors, Then you have to machine the hex rod. You can use steel hex or nylon rod but which ever you use you will have to do some form of machining to mate it with your motive power source.
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www.robocommunity.com/article/13007/Wall-E-Robot--Homebuilt-Project-Step-By-Step-Digest/
Also a couple of video's. Not great video's, will do better later.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79jfrUYDv0M
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TTCUqtGsBw
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Post Edited (StampNut2) : 3/8/2008 12:34:30 PM GMT
Auction number:
270216355301
As of this posting, they are at $20.72 with $9.50 shipping... Good luck guys [noparse]:)[/noparse]
If you take a look at T0m's thread, concerning·his Mattracks equipped BoeBot, from last year, you will notice that he had purchased all of the spare Mattracks from Radio Shack and was trying to negotiate a Mattrack production contract with the manufacturer in China that had made the Mattracks for Radio Shack.
As far as I know, T0m never followed up on that thread concerning the production of the Mattracks with the manufacturer in China.
Regards,
TCIII
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Ugha - Thanks for the info - I have two pair now. I will check out the auction.
TCIII - I do remember that TOm talked about that. Wonder how we could go about checking that out?
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Watch out! My son presented me with this today...
It is Wall-E's arch enemy, Tall-E. Notice that he has legs and laser eyes (according to my son).
You've been warned.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
Post Edited (Whit) : 3/9/2008 4:43:45 PM GMT
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Let me know what you find out Whit about about TOm and manufacturing. I take on some adventerous projects some times. I would consider designing our own and getting them fabbed over here in China, but there would have to be suffecient volume to cover the molds and design time. If TOm has a lead on the manufacturer, than that is huge. If the manufacturer is in the lower part of China (Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzho), then maybe I could help by visiting them on an "off day".
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Timothy D. Swieter
www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP
www.tdswieter.com
One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
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I wrote Radio Shack a note and asked about ordering the Mattracks by themselves. They sent the following reply-
"The Mattracks are available with the wheel. Your local RadioShack store can order them for you. Catalog numbers are Left/ RSU 12458907 $11.69 & Right/RSU 12458923 $11.69."
That would be $23.38 a pair. Not bad till I find out some more information. So we should be able to take these numbers to our local stores and order a pair.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
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Timothy D. Swieter
www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP
www.tdswieter.com
One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
I'm going to give it a try tomorrow.
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I went and ordered a set of Mattracks today. As they said the Left Assembly and Right Assembly were $11.69 each. They will ship them to my house for $4.50 (it would be the same shipped to the store). That makes the total with the tax here - $30.67 for a pair.
When they come in, I will let you know if all is well. I told the folks a Radio Shack - "WE" might be ordering some more. They said eventually they would run out - since these are replacement parts - but till then, at least we have a source.
StampNut2 - WALL-E is looking great. Love the weathered Mattracks.
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Whit+
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney
I just got mine. But you can get some ideas looking at StampNut2's pictures above.
See TOm's thread and very nice mounting system on this thread - http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=640103·(This system has the suspension that allows the Mattracks to rotate on the mount).
TOm sells this system too. (See here on E-bay for good pics and video - http://cgi.ebay.com/Boe-Bot-Robot-Mattracks-for-Parallax-Robotics_W0QQitemZ290212627820QQihZ019QQcategoryZ1187QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem·(This price is for the Mattracks, mounts and coupler)
And a simpler method here - http://www.roboware.org/Gallery/v/robots/boemat/·(This is a hard mount).
The tricky part is attaching or·coupling·the servo/motor to the Mattrack (and avoiding the servo/motor carrying the load) and allowing the Mattracks to move (with some sort of suspension) with the mount.
Hope this helps.
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Whit+
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Post Edited (Whit) : 3/12/2008 12:40:56 AM GMT
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/index.html
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