The code for the Bionic Eye is fairly simple: There are 2 servos, programmed to make independent random movements at random times. The random ranges are selected so that the tilt servo moves on average about twice a second and the rotate servo moves about once per second. You can speed it up for a somewhat wackier non-stop motion effect, or slow it down for a creepy/sinister evil-eye effect
The random range for the tilt servo motion is restricted to about 30 degrees. The rotation servo is allowed to go the full 180 degrees.
The servos are allowed 100 milliseconds to reach their position, then they are detached to save power and reduce noise and jitter.
You will need to install the SoftServo Library. You can download it using the button below. For Library installation instructions, see this guide.
Then paste the following sketch into the IDE and upload it to your Trinket.
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Bill Earl and Mikey Sklar for Adafruit Industries
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
/*******************************************************************
Bionic Eye sketch for Adafruit Trinket.
by Bill Earl
for Adafruit Industries
Required library is the Adafruit_SoftServo library
available at https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SoftServo
The standard Arduino IDE servo library will not work with 8 bit
AVR microcontrollers like Trinket and Gemma due to differences
in available timer hardware and programming. We simply refresh
by piggy-backing on the timer0 millis() counter
Trinket: Bat+ Gnd Pin #0 Pin #1
Connection: Servo+ Servo- Tilt Rotate
(Red) (Brown) Servo Servo
(Orange)(Orange)
*******************************************************************/
#include <Adafruit_SoftServo.h> // SoftwareServo (works on non PWM pins)
#define TILTSERVOPIN 0 // Servo control line (orange) on Trinket Pin #0
#define ROTATESERVOPIN 1 // Servo control line (orange) on Trinket Pin #1
Adafruit_SoftServo TiltServo, RotateServo; //create TWO servo objects
void setup()
{
// Set up the interrupt that will refresh the servo for us automagically
OCR0A = 0xAF; // any number is OK
TIMSK |= _BV(OCIE0A); // Turn on the compare interrupt (below!)
TiltServo.attach(TILTSERVOPIN); // Attach the servo to pin 0 on Trinket
RotateServo.attach(ROTATESERVOPIN); // Attach the servo to pin 1 on Trinket
delay(15); // Wait 15ms for the servo to reach the position
}
void loop()
{
delay(100);
TiltServo.detach(); // release the servo
RotateServo.detach(); // release the servo
if(random(100) > 80) // on average, move once every 500ms
{
TiltServo.attach(TILTSERVOPIN); // Attach the servo to pin 0 on Trinket
TiltServo.write(random(120, 180)); // Tell servo to go to position
}
if(random(100) > 90) // on average, move once every 500ms
{
RotateServo.attach(ROTATESERVOPIN); // Attach the servo to pin 1 on Trinket
RotateServo.write(random(0, 180)); // Tell servo to go to position
}
}
// We'll take advantage of the built in millis() timer that goes off
// to keep track of time, and refresh the servo every 20 milliseconds
// The SIGNAL(TIMER0_COMPA_vect) function is the interrupt that will be
// Called by the microcontroller every 2 milliseconds
volatile uint8_t counter = 0;
SIGNAL(TIMER0_COMPA_vect)
{
// this gets called every 2 milliseconds
counter += 2;
// every 20 milliseconds, refresh the servos!
if (counter >= 20)
{
counter = 0;
TiltServo.refresh();
RotateServo.refresh();
}
}
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