Greetings!
I am a high school art and design teacher building a life-sized, R2-D2 robot with some of my upper classmen. I've been reading up on Arduino and Raspi, but because I do not have experience with programming, I'm not sure what to do. Essentially, I'm trying to find a way to make our R2's head turn. The head is attached to a lazy Susan. I plan to run an axle down from a bracket in his head, through the lazy Susan to a motor housed in his drum body. I'd like his head to turn in varying degrees/intervals/patterns, for varying periods of time with periods of rest between. I'd also like his head to return to center-forward after each head turn. It would be great if we could get the R2-D2 sound effects to coincide with the head turning too. I'd like him to be able to play my iPod through speakers mounted from the inside of his body, connect to a wireless webcam mounted behind his large center eye, and I'd like the red and light blue lights in his head to run (I was thinking LEDs). He will be moving via remote control RC cars in his feet once I get these other issues figured out. In any case, I don't know how to do this, so if any of you can offer any insight on any of these issues, I would be very grateful!
BEEP-BOOP!
Sincerely,
Csillz8