Comments on: Animatronic winged demon terrorizes local garage

By: Tony D' Garage Man

Tony D' Garage Man — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:50:31 +0000

I could actually see my one friend doing this for Halloween, he works with I/Os and automation all day at work, and he actually has most of his house automated. I’m sure his kids would love if dad made something like this ahaha

By: woody

woody — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:55:08 +0000

over engineered bad ass stuff ftw. i love that music in the background. whats is it?

By: illpro

illpro — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:46:08 +0000

Yeah like Uzra said if you read the haunted forum he is a controls technician & that setup controls 21 animatronics, lights, fog machines, sound and other props. Could have done more action then just extending out and back. Cool though.

By: SOI Sentinel

SOI Sentinel — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:06:08 +0000

Hmmm… that’s some heavy duty hardware. Allen Bradley SLC/500 series, looks like 50 I/O with room for 50 more if he’s using 8 bit modules. All 120VAC (pretty common, bad response time though). All output appear to go to 2 and 3 pole relays. Looks like everything’s fused and he’s got a MCR e-stop relay. All in all, fairly solid industrial design, just missing a cabinet. Which also tells me he’s picked these up from system upgrades in the field. That system is probably $15K in hardware, and the AB software to program it all another $5k.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:30:44 +0000

My opinion is changed, thank you Urza

*Also, black is over-powered in your block* :P

By: Urza9814

Urza9814 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:24:17 +0000

If you read through the forum posts it says that the control systems he shows also control 20 other animatronics as well as several other props.

By: Lance Ingle

Lance Ingle — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:19:09 +0000

With all that I was honestly expecting that thing to chase him around the room.

Still…i agree with Mic… it’s cool.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:14:28 +0000

He seems like a resource industry technician who went with what he knows, ’tis overkill but he probably just couldn’t be arsed to learn a programming language. Also, that doesn’t look like any PLC I’ve dealt with, it looks like he built it out of pneumatic and relay logic, so he gets props for just being plain hardcore about it, but he could have saved a damn lot of time and money by learning to program a micro-controller instead of throwing industry grade hardware at it (HMI ffs!).

By: Mic

Mic — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:11:22 +0000

Guys probably retired and needs a hobby =P Looks bad ass.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:58:28 +0000

Wow. Seriously. WOW.

Some folks would have just sufficed with some lumber and carriage bolts and an old windshield wiper motor.
This guy built a big scary space station wrapped in a cloak!

It’s impressive as hell!
Seems wasted on just Halloween though.
That thing should be a permanent display somewhere it’s so well made.

Did I mention wow?

By: bobob

bobob — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:36:02 +0000

are you fucking serious??? all that hardware,wiring,and control systems just to make that thing open it’s wings/arms and throw it’s head back!!

thats the most wasteful example of overkill i’ve EVER seen.