Hi All,
I'm fairly new to this site and am trying to find help for an Uncanny Eyes project that I did years ago using the original setup. I created an escape room puzzle using Uncanny Eyes on a teensy 3.2 with two 128 displays for eye in a painting. A friend of mine at the time created an Arduino interface as I needed to be able to control the eyes from a remote location. The Arduino was controlled over a network and was controlled via simple http commands commands to the Arduino which in turn controlled the Teensy allowing me to do the following.
- Eyes Closed
- Eyes Open
- Blink Once
- Blink Twice
- Look Up for 2 seconds
- Look down for two seconds
- Roll eyes twice
- Complete a sequence of eye movements to spell out a word based on letters around the painting
- Reset the eyes
I have no idea how he did this as I am not great at coding, just building. I have lost touch with him now and can't get him to come look at it.
Now this puzzle has been in place for approximately 3.5 years and always worked great until recently. One of the eyes stopped working complete and the other had some dead pixel lines in it. So I replaced both screens for new identical ones and it worked for a little while but now one eye is being temperamental and sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I have narrowed the issue down to the teensy as when I reset the Arduino it makes not difference but if I reset the teensy the eye will work for a while.
I had looked at just replacing the teensy but I have been unable to source a 3.2 to replace like for like and I also don't know if there were any changes made to the original code to allow the Arduino to control the teensy.
What I would ideally like to do is to replace the control system with just a teensy that has an ethernet adaptor and have the code adapted to enable the teensy to respond to http commands and to control the eyes directly without the arduino in-between.
Is this something that anyone here could help with? I am happy to pay for your time in adapting this code and advising on what teensy version I should use.
Thanks all in advance for your help on this project.
Nick
I'm fairly new to this site and am trying to find help for an Uncanny Eyes project that I did years ago using the original setup. I created an escape room puzzle using Uncanny Eyes on a teensy 3.2 with two 128 displays for eye in a painting. A friend of mine at the time created an Arduino interface as I needed to be able to control the eyes from a remote location. The Arduino was controlled over a network and was controlled via simple http commands commands to the Arduino which in turn controlled the Teensy allowing me to do the following.
- Eyes Closed
- Eyes Open
- Blink Once
- Blink Twice
- Look Up for 2 seconds
- Look down for two seconds
- Roll eyes twice
- Complete a sequence of eye movements to spell out a word based on letters around the painting
- Reset the eyes
I have no idea how he did this as I am not great at coding, just building. I have lost touch with him now and can't get him to come look at it.
Now this puzzle has been in place for approximately 3.5 years and always worked great until recently. One of the eyes stopped working complete and the other had some dead pixel lines in it. So I replaced both screens for new identical ones and it worked for a little while but now one eye is being temperamental and sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I have narrowed the issue down to the teensy as when I reset the Arduino it makes not difference but if I reset the teensy the eye will work for a while.
I had looked at just replacing the teensy but I have been unable to source a 3.2 to replace like for like and I also don't know if there were any changes made to the original code to allow the Arduino to control the teensy.
What I would ideally like to do is to replace the control system with just a teensy that has an ethernet adaptor and have the code adapted to enable the teensy to respond to http commands and to control the eyes directly without the arduino in-between.
Is this something that anyone here could help with? I am happy to pay for your time in adapting this code and advising on what teensy version I should use.
Thanks all in advance for your help on this project.
Nick