EZ-8 and Pneumatic Zombie

[uncle]

Great little controller! 

I was just playing around with mine last night and did this short, not yet refined program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oOzF6r4IfM

[vista]

I saw your demo (No 1 & 2) just the other day but now that you say it was done on a EZ-8 maybe I'll look harder at the 8. I haven't looked at the docs yet but I saw that the 8 has a PIR plugin (I believe) so I assume you wouldn't have to activate this manually like you did in the video. Also what was the extended length of the pneumatics? 2" or 3"???

I think I'll order my EZ-8 now and start playing...

Thanks for the great inspiration...

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Great little controller! 

I was just playing around with mine last night and did this short, not yet refined program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oOzF6r4IfM
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[uncle]

The video showed what I did with my EZ-8 and only 30 seconds of programming.  It really is very easy.  The only difficulty would be that each "arm" is programmed separately, so if you want some specific movement sequence that becomes problematic. 

I have heard that the new Vixen programming will solve this problem, but I don't believe that the newest Vixen is out yet.

Oh, and the cylinders had a 2" throw.

[JonnyMac]

We really did try to put "easy" into the EZ-8, so it does in fact have a [Parallax-compatible] PIR header.  Here's what a setup with a PIR and a couple valves would look like:



Vixen 2.5 (not out yet, but I have it) does make programming very precise sequences into the EZ-8 very... easy!  I'll check with KC to see what the release status is.

[EricTheMannn]

I cant wait for the new vixen 2.5 release! Vixen being able to control the props in real time would be a fantastic advantage.
you could have more then one prop on this thing and still have a lot of power behind it.

-Eric

[JonnyMac]

And while the program is operating you get full stereo sound.  I'm not sure what KC's intentions are, but it will be really cool when Vixen can handle multi-channel (e.g., 5.1) audio.

[vista]

We'll keep our eyes open for the 2.5 release. I want to speed up my process.