Comments on: Hacking animatronic Elvis http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robot Betty9 http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-60427 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:33:47 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-60427 That Elivis is one sweet bot! He makes my motors run and my dram smoke.

]]> By: Scott McDonnell http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39819 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:45:52 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39819 Re: emulating the xD card. If one were to go through all that trouble, it would probably be easier to just replace the CPU board entirely. The motor signals are all just digital out on the cpu board and these go to H-Bridge drivers on other boards. The only other thing of interest on the CPU board is the MP3 codec IC, and there are several of those around. In the end, I will probably do this. I am just having some fun trying to learn something about reverse-engineering by seeing how far I can take the original hardware.

]]> By: Scott McDonnell http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39818 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:48:37 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39818 graey,

Technically, it is possible and was discussed briefly on the thread. The only real thing getting in the way is that you also need to emulate FAT. One of the other members there mentioned he would try that.

Personally, I want to see how far the built in hardware can take us, and then I will probably just design a new controller board for it.

]]> By: graey http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39817 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:06:39 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39817 Crazy thought, but isn’t it possible to create some interface that emulates an XD card? Then you could (maybe, theoretically) just ‘stream’ the next bit of mp3 file as the elvishead reads the previous, and so still control it realtime. Sort of.

]]> By: Scott McDonnell http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39816 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:04:24 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39816 thanks, strider. this should make for some awesome halloween displays. what i am really going to need help with is a decent animation program like VSA (visual show automation) to let you synch the scripts with the audio.

]]> By: Scott McDonnell http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39815 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:02:14 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39815 frollard, that is correct. it is formatted fat16. fat32 will not work.

]]> By: Hamsterfunk http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39814 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:34:58 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39814 We need this badly. Would be great to integrate a wireless connect. Remote Elvis would be the must have..

]]> By: strider_mt2k http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39813 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:17:48 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39813 scott this is awesome.
Please keep us updated because if you didn’t read previously this is awesome.

]]> By: Scott McDonnell http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39812 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:25:26 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39812 Mike, I am working on this. I am building a ‘bed of nails’ for the CPU right now. It uses a sunplus CPU which isn’t very well documented. So, lots of reverse engineering is involved. Real-time control is my overall goal, even if it means building a replacement CPU board (which once everything is mapped shouldn’t be too difficult.) I can’t find any documentation for the MP3 codec chip, either.

]]> By: cberkop http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39811 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:56:09 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39811 I’m seeing visions of Halloween, screaming kids, and Elvis rising from the dead.

]]> By: mike http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39810 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:19:30 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39810 What would be really cool is this. Instead of storing the data on the card and making it play back, it would be way fun to make it so you could send it data in real time and carry on conversations with people through the wacky elvis head. Just think of all the little kids you could scar for life by scaring them with that thing!

]]> By: Frollard http://hackaday.com/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/comment-page-1/#comment-39809 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:35:02 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/31/hacking-animatronic-elvis/#comment-39809 According to the writeup – its formatted fat16…

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