Blue Point Engineering - Animatronics Robotics

Blue Point Engineering - Animatronics Robotics

Hardware, Electronics, Supplies, Custom Engineering and Technical Assistance for the Animatronic, Robotic, Electronic Arts, Haunted Attractions, Hobbyist and Professional.

"..Product line of low cost, high quality, hardware, electronics, and supplies used in animatronics, robotics, haunted Industry and technology education for both the hobbyist and professional designers, imagineers and dreamers creating their own forms of animatronic and robotic life."

The Wizard on the right - a small 9 Volt dc powered interface board that will record and playback up to 5 minutes of servo motion for 4 standard 5 Vdc hobby R/C type servos and control 4 digital switched ON and OFF outputs at +4.5 Vdc (100 mA) per channel.

Radio Control - Equipment / Devices

Unique R/C servo operated - Single-Acting 3-way valve. Runs directly from R/C receiver, Wizard, or Puppet boards, no interface, linkage or servo needed. Valve activation point ON and OFF default can be set.

Blue Point Engineering LLC - BPE Solutions
Address: Longmont, . Colorado .USA

uC Hobby - Learn Microcontrollers by DIY

uC Hobby - Learn Microcontrollers by DIY

"The mission here is to help hobbyist get started with microcontrollers. The primary focus is ARM7 based microcontrollers which can be a big step for persons new to embedded development."

USB IO Chips - uCHobby.com

The chip is very easy to work with and provides 12 or 16 I/O pins with various built in functions like variable flash rate, event counters, variable sink current and more. They provide lots of documentation and a DLL to make interfacing easy."

RCA – Radio Corporation of America – History

The Professor, Talking Machine, Wireless Becomes Radio, Color Television, Nipper and Chipper and More. e RCA History at

RCA - Radio Corporation of America - History

Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer, transmitted the first wireless signal in 1895. By the turn of the century he had formed telegraph companies in England and opened the first wireless office in New York City. In 1901, Marconi telegraphed the letter "S" across the Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. Navy was so impressed that it replaced a flock of carrier pigeons with the "wireless" for ship-to-shore communications.

Two years after inventing the phonograph, Edison brought the world the incandescent light bulb. Thirteen years later, his start-up electric company would merge with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and be renamed General Electric.

In the early 1920s, David Sarnoff publicly speculated on the possibility of "every farmhouse equipped not only with a sound-receiving device but with a screen that would mirror the sights of life." The idea of television was not new, and mechanical systems had demonstrated crude pictures. But it was Sarnoff's historic meeting with engineer Vladimir Zworykin that set the stage for RCA's success at electronic television transmission and reception.

Wikipedia - RCA - Radio Corporation of America

An RCA connector, sometimes called a phono connector or cinch connector, is a type of electrical connector commonly used to carry audio and video signals. The name "RCA" derives from the Radio Corporation of America, which introduced the design by the early 1940s to allow mono phonograph players to be connected to amplifiers.

RCA Connector at Wikipedia

Parts are from The Wayback Machine snapshot of RCA History.

Chipdir - Database of ICs

Chipdir - Database of ICs

This site contains. Numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts and lists of manufacturers, electronics books, CDROM's, magazines, WWW sites and much more.

Embedded Systems Made Easy - StickOS

Embedded Systems Made Easy - StickOS

"StickOS BASIC is intended to make embedded systems technology and advanced microcontroller functionality quickly and easily accessible to High School students, hobbyists, and researchers, etc., with minimal investment of time, education, and money. Interfacing with digital circuitry, analog circuitry, serial circuitry (UART and SPI), servo motors, and buzzers, etc., all become trivial single-line, single-minute tasks in StickOS BASIC, so the user can concentrate on achieving the control task at hand, rather than the detailed mechanics of control."

StickOS Examples - A simple embedded system, like a toaster oven temperature profile controller, can be brought online in record time!

- Rich Testardi (mail)

"StickOS BASIC is an entirely MCU-resident interactive programming environment, which includes an easy-to-use editor, transparent line-by-line compiler, interactive debugger, performance profiler, and flash filesystem, all controlled thru an interactive command-line user interface....

CPUStick is a 1"x4" very low cost standalone USB embedded computer based on the Freescale MCF52252 ColdFire MCU and MC13201 ZigFlea Wireless Transceiver,..."