[chbot] XY map with movable pieces

[Mark Atherton]

So you need

- X/Y movement of the magnet
- Z axis to detach the magnet from the current object
- to have a record of where all the other objects on the table, so you 
can pick and move each, without collision

This sounds quite interesting...

-Mark


On 16/06/2020 10:51 AM, andrew dean wrote:
> horizontal and 1 object at a time.
>
> cheers!
> -a
>
>> On Jun 16, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> how many movable objects would you like on the map at the same time ?
>>
>> can you confirm that the map will be horizontal, not wall mounted
>>
>> -mark
>>
>>> On 16 June 2020 at 10:40 andrew dean <nzandydean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was toying with a puzzle in an upcoming "war bunker" room where i 
>>> wanted to have some pieces on a "war map" move on their own. I was 
>>> thinking of placing below the table an electromagnet on a pair of 
>>> motors driving the X/Y axis that would allow me to "grab" an object 
>>> from a location" and "drag" it mysteriously and magically to another 
>>> location.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any personal recommendations for a 
>>> motor/frame/controller setup with a documented arduino library of 
>>> some kind (that also is fairly budget cause i'm cheap) that would 
>>> allow range of motion roughly 500-600mm square? accuracy isn't super 
>>> critical.
>>>
>>> cheers!
>>> -andrew