Mr. Clown: A Magic Robot
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Mr. Clown is a robotic magician's assistant made with cereal boxes, a raspberry pi, and micro servos. It is based on a tutorial from the book Robot Magic, by Mario Marchese.
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Mr. Clown: A Magic Robot
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Mr. Clown is pretty much finished!
I had a little bit of trouble with finding a battery pack to power the Pico. The first one I tried was old and restarted when the servo tried to move. The second one timed out during a wait, but I changed the code to start when a makeshift button is pressed instead of waiting a set number of seconds.
In addition to adding the two wires that start the code when connected, I:
- Wrote the firmware for Mr. Clown
- Figured out the MicroPico extension for sending the code to the Raspberry Pi
- Added a cardboard box to hold the extra clown nose
I also decided what I am going to say during each section of the trick (the patter) and exactly which sleights I am going to use to make the clown nose disappear.
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The hardware part of Mr. Clown is done! The cardboard outside is made of a Cheez-it box and spaghetti box. It uses two micro servos and a Raspberry Pi Pico for the electronics. I still need to figure out how to control the micro servos in micropython. The tutorial uses an Arduino programming in C.
