hey all, I'm trying to create a miniature version (less balls) of this just because it looks cool: [BMW Museum - Kinetic Sculpture] It looks like they attach string to a ball and then this gets moved up or down on the y axis. Together they create a 3d object. I thought about stepper …

Hi, first sorry for my english but it isn't my mother language. Me too am working on the same project, iv'e found on ebay a cheap stepper motor with an uln2003 drive board, two stepper and two driver board cost around 6 euro, and it can easily move a little ball or something similar, if you wont mor…

Hi, I add news on the project, done! I've made it with an array of 16 motors, 4X4, that is the least that a mega can drive with this tipe of motors, with other type I can drive 35 motors with only one mega board, but those cost 10 times more the first one, so I wait to see if someone is interested a…

@Radicator :Please provide me way of making it.I am working on it.

what kind of motor and driver were talking about ? And if you want to hook up like 50 motors do sync arduino boards ? or do you use kind of addressable solution ?

Mega can do 48 Servos I think other motors will need at least 2 pins for up & down, so now you're looking at syncing multiple cards. Google Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're…

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thx for your reply Cross...question What do you mean with "Automate that even, use 3 16:1 muxes (ex. DG406) to read limit switches for calibration. 3 inputs, 4 channel selects," i was thinking of using an ultrasone for calibrating strings ( pull up weight.....when weight distance is shorter than 1…

So a setup like this (can't really show the 3D-ness of it, but I think it gets the idea across). Try a couple of servo, see what's needed to lift 500g (~1 pound). [Servo-spool-ball.jpg] You might be surprised and find a Standard Servo is all you need, and the biggest part of the problem is secur…

thx Cross...going to do some tests

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