3 September 2017

K9 Diaries - Whooverville 9 2017


Success, K9 was completed for Whooverville 9 at Derby Quad, his first ever outing, all the hard work was well worth it seeing the smiles on the faces of people that met him. I lost count of the number of people that complimented me on the build and a few even asked to buy him, more than my life is worth to sell him though, Debs finally has a dog and she's not parting with him lol!

I had to have a go in the TARDIS :)  K9's control panel looped through a sequence of K9 and then 200 random selections of the lights.

The screen was fully operational, although we didn't want to infringe any copyrights by playing Dr who episodes at a public event, but as well as photo capabilities, K9 has movie playing abilities on his screen via his built Raspberry Pi.

His antenna ears operated continuously for the whole event, as did his control panel, and we had his camera taking photos every 10 seconds to record what he could see during the day.

Although we did have to cut out a fair number of shots of peoples trousers. Next time we'll have a perimeter around so we get see more people and less of their bags and behinds, we'll also encourage the people to smile for K9's Timey Wimey Cam as Debs has christened it. Below is a video Debs made from the images that K9 took.


Sadly his drive broke down, some issue with the motor control / receiver which needs to be investigated but all in all it was a brilliant experience,really good to see the smiles on the faces of people young and old who wanted to meet K9 and have their photo taken with him. We're already looking forward to Whooverville 10, see you there!

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