I'm creating an EASIER way to control Robots and Animatronics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ย. 2020
- When I made my first robot, I wanted an intuitive, visual tool to control it, but nothing like that existed. So I made it!
Download FREE at: www.Bottango.com
I need your help creating the ultimate tool of hardware control for humans. Bottango is a new, visual tool for controlling robots, animatronics, and all kinds of hardware.
In my long history as a game developer, I knew that I wouldn't use custom code or weird configuration files to create movement in my game characters. I would use industry standard animation tools. Bottango brings those same powerful, intuitive tools to the world of hardware control.
If you make robots, animatronics, or any kind of hardware with intentional movement... or if you've ever wanted to try, Bottango is an awesome tool to get you started quickly.
And SUBSCRIBE to my channel for more updates on Bottango, and my adventures making awesome robots! - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
This will be very helpful for me. I like robotics but I don’t like to program using code. But now I can just animate what I want the robot to do. witch is great I will use this.
tbh I'm super impressed by the completeness, power, and intuitive interface Bottango is so far just starting to use it! Really really amazing work!
Making robots is getting easier and easier to do.
This looks sick dude!! Thank making software for us non-coders!
Can you tell me how to turn on the engine in the bottango app? I've been trying for more than 6 months.
Wow, you honestly couldn’t have created this at a better time! You suggested this on Reddit when I was talking about my major FNAF animatronics project, and I’m pretty certain it’s going to be my go-to! Does the program have the ability to record motions done with a joystick and/or sync motors to audio (similar to TrackSkull and Virtual Show Assistant)?
Thanks! Right now the focus is on bringing the traditional 3D animation workflow to hardware control (keyframes, bezier curves, etc.). But getting feedback from end users on what features are important to them is why I posted this video! I'll consider that a vote for that kind of programming. If you try out Bottango, I'd love your feedback. Feel free to join our Discord community as well (link on the Bottango website). Good luck with your project, I'll be watching the updates (no matter what control strategy you take :) )
EDIT: Oh, and yes, you can add as many audio tracks as you'd like to an animation, and synchronize your movements to audio easily.
Evan McMahon Thank you! I’ve just downloaded the program and played around with the example project a bit- it’s a really fantastic interface! I’m hoping I can use the SSC-32u motor controller I’m using with the program, but regardless I think it’s going to be hugely successful. The fact that it’s currently offering such a huge array of features for free is spectacular!
@@justinm9763 I also have a SSC-32U Lynxmotion but I wasn't able to connect the hardware to the program. Kept getting a yellow light did not receive handshake from driver I believe it runs at 9600 . Were you able to use yours
@@Steve-sl3ib I was not, ended up using a different program and rigging the bot with a physical joystick
@@Bottango you need a Tutorial for it
do you think you’ll ever do any tutorials on the software? it’s very simple but took a bit to really grasp
Reece (and @Evan) - once I get more familiar with everything, I am definitely ready to help out with tutorials. I do a fair bit of that for my main bread and butter (video editing and VFX), and I am super excited about Bottango.
WOW! This Is amazing! I Will definately give It a try, this Is exactly what i needed for my current project, i'll make sure yo updates you and give you as good feedback as i can, but i can say this looks amazing and Will be a home Run!
The best thing after so long this is what we all needed. Thank you and best of luck of the bright future.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was wanting, key frames with curves on a timeline! Can’t wait to use this with upcoming animatronics
This looks pretty rad. I'm looking to go through the documentation sometime this week, though from just downloading the software and playing around a bit, it seems pretty robust- with a slight learning curve. What would be ideal (as I'm very much a visual learner) is a video showing the basic setup of the different motor configurations, and the different flavors of Arduino that can be used. Also, if I'm understanding correctly, On/Off functionality is not currently available...? Just servo and stepper motors...? Maybe I misunderstand that point. The reason I ask is that I would like to tweak something really basic like a BillyBass to just see how all the parts come together, and the hardware for that particular device is motor-driven (On/Off states).
Looks interesting. Will give it a try. Always looking for ways to make things better. Thanks!
Heck yeah - so excited to have found Bottango and your channel. I have been waiting for this for more than a decade!!!!
(not exactly waiting, learning all the time.) But so far, just playing with the GUI is blowing me away - and I test and design GUis for a living (more or less), and this is what I've been imaging for the past couple years - gonna be hard to sleep tonight, can't WAIT to hook up some hardware
Great job Evan!
The software looks great can’t wait to try it
This is fantastic for being a visual person. I’m building a pneumatic animatronic, anyway this’ll work with pneumatics at some point?
Absolutely brilliant!
This is amazing!
dude, , this software is amazing !! I'm starting to make some animatronics and I'm really bad with the codes ... I believe your software will help me a lot !! I still don't understand how to pass all the animation I did, to the Arduino, but I need to read the whole documentation, to find out if it's possible. It would be really cool if we could get the maker community to help with the project, creating tutorials for beginners !! CONGRATULATIONS for the project !!
Thanks! Feel free to jump in our discord as well, always happy to provide support / help getting up and going.
@@Bottango cool ! what´s ur discord ?? regards.
discord.gg/wyhSMQb
@@Bottango Hey, if u don't mind me asking, can u add audio to go along with your characters movements?
Looking forward to following
Awesome concept man! I love the idea. Any plans on applying other features beyond motor movement?
Chatbots, speech engines, camera, sensors etc etc etc?
I am currenrly running my bot through Myrobotlab (MRL) which is great in many respects as it ties all that stuff in, slider bars for servos with all the other stuff, but it has its flaws for sure. Making gestures etc would be amazing in your set up. Just would be curious on how to add in speech and opencv facetracking etc. Something for later down rhe road perhaps?
This looks pretty interesting
Greetings from Mexico
WOW!!! This is Amazing!!!
Thank you for creating this, i'll try to use it. I'm doing my best to re-create an existing animatronic band called the Rock-afire Explosion, and i'm planning on using pneumatic air valves/cylinders like they did originally. I'm currently woking on making 3d models of the various parts and mechanisms of the characters. it's difficult, but thankfully i found a copy of the old service manual for them, and based upon the drawings/measurements in that i'm roughly re-creating them. Hopefully this software can be used to have each key on the key board be able to control each valve/movement. I hope that everyone is having a wonderful existence.
I have been looking for something like this for almost two years!
Bro wow... You have created a beast let me tell you. This is exactly how I always imagined robots in my head. This makes it really easy to understand and generate motions. is it an open source project? Can we contribute on git?
1) Apart from that can you export file for a particular motion in CVS text and later can be used directly from SD card or something in realtime? That should make change of movements really easy.
2) Can this create a basic arduino code for kids? that they can use ?
3) Can we connect external IMU and see our robot moving?
Thanks for your amazing creation, I am one click away from downloading this. :D cheers!!
My graal! You made it!
Happy to test this and let you know!
So many thanks 👍 ❤️
Is there a list of compatible cards and wiring? A link to ressources?
Thx
Very cool!
Thanks for your software! I have used Vixen Lights software to animate a servo for mouth movement, but i am having trouble setting up a servo in Bottango. Could you do a short video on setting up just one servo in Bottango? Thanks!
Amazing!
This is so amazing... Thank you so much for putting in all that hard work into this project and then making it open source... I have a camera robot on my channel that I built and this is the exact solution I was looking for... Do you have a PayPal or patreon I'd love to throw a couple of bucks your way for all the hard work..
I can confirm that @Do It Whenever's camera rig project is epic - any collaboration with him will be an awesome boost. Let me know how I can help. Test shot setups for high end food, toys, etc
Is there a way to use botango to make a animation and put it into a razbarry pie but instead of connecting it to your laptop all the time it have preset animation set so when you hit a button it activate the animation just like those step button Halloween animatronics
Any thoughts of adding Pololu Maestro boards?
As someone very new to this... What do I need? An Arduino? Any specific extra servo controlboard? Is it plug and play?
Can you make a video where explain how the software works?
ya! finally a program that works like how I make my cartoons programs work to make my animatronic dolls move. Ya! now I can program them. I just need a new computer first. My crome book won't work. As soon as I get a new computer I will defiantly try it out thanks.
central locking motor of a car door as my animatronic movement mechanism. Can this be applied to this website? Will it work for me?
Awesome
Any thoughts of a RPI / Debian / Python direction?
hi, i'm having a little problem with this software. So I'm just asking for a little tutorial about: How to connect an arduino uno software to bottango in order to see my animatronic or robot came alive in real time. Thank you.
Can you use this software to program pneumatic animatronics
Will the program work with pneumatics?
Does it work with a pca sevo controller?
This program looks great . I'm having trouble connecting my hardware to the program.- Did not recieve handshake from driver , Bottango driver code not running. I get a yellow light (elegoo mega2560 R3 Board ) runs off Arduino
Hi Steve! Have you uploaded the included Bottango code onto the Arduino? Check the included BottangoArduino manual in the BottangoArduino folder. If you need more help, join our Discord and we can chat there: discord.gg/wyhSMQb
@@Bottango Thankyou so much it worked .
does it work with arduino uno r3?
Does this work with pneumatics?
You add so you can control pneumatic Air valv
Hey cool software i just started learning and i think bottango will make things easier i mean so much easier for me on my projects but i still have few questions how can i contact you? Do you have any Instagram account??
Hi, you can join us in the Bottango Discord: discord.gg/wyhSMQb
Please I want to live :(
yo I I I'm confused I only have paper I'm smart but not that smart you just respect us to now how this works? y'all crazy think of this just don't think about the things that are hard just think about the project thank you😤 huh I'm not that smart but my mummy is nice and says I'm good at it ok so next time you have a hard time doing a project just remember foxes on the project k thank you
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