Hi Habr!
Just two hours ago, I was given an extremely non-trivial task and was given a deadline for a week to implement. I’ll make a reservation that I work in an advertising agency, and it happens that I have to think about physical fitness for absolutely crazy ideas. But now the dates seem to be simply not realistic for such an undertaking:
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1) We need an engineer who can design a 2-day primitive crane beam with a lifting capacity of up to 50 kg.
2) We need a person who can make the controller of the crane described above on Ardunio or another platform.
3) We need a person with knowledge of lifting equipment.
Call out!Initial idea:
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Current option:We buy a scene of such a plan

Mounted on her crane beam

We take almost such a scheme as a basis, as suggested by habrauzer
lukaville
So, I will tell a little background. Our agency cooperates with one famous beer brand. A month ago, we launched a national promo in the center of which is a website. The website is not simple - it is a live broadcast from the big game "crane machine" in which not only one claw catches prizes, but as many as five. In fact, we made some space two by four meters in which there are cubes with RFID chips lying on the floor, and five claws move under the ceiling. Pincers can be controlled directly from the website in turn. The task of the player to raise the box claws. It's simple. We bought claws with zabugr at 10,000 pce. Reprogrammed controllers. We hung up the cameras on each claw and connected everything with servers.
The client is delighted, everything works (I will not give the link as I do not advertise)
The result was a pretty cool case to send to various contests. At this stage, the idea came up that it was necessary to do something right on the streets of the city, and, as a reasonable continuation of the creative idea, they decided to build a giant crane machine with free-to-play mechanics. This is about Moscow. The mechanics should be the following:
- Take billboard 3 by 6 meters
- Take the crane boom on wheels
- We take claw which possesses predatory function
- We hang the claw on the boom
- We print a QR code on a billboard with a link to a mobile, a site with controls.
- We put 10 boxes on the floor a cubic meter under the billboard
- People go to the mobile site and in rltayme they operate the crane.
At first glance, everything is simple, but a few questions have appeared. How can I limit the movement of the crane boom and how to connect it to a computer and if there is such a possibility.
Actually, this is the reason to appeal to the community. Who cares, we join the team! Of course, not for free, as they say, every whim for our (agency) money.
As he said earlier, the project is competitive and is not done to advertise a product, but rather to submit applications for Kansky Lions, Red Apple, etc. So the country will not forget its heroes.