Johnny-Five the original JavaScript Robotics programming framework has a new website http://johnny-five.io! The site looks great and does a god job showcasing the project’s maturity.

One of the many gems in this project is the Animation library. It allows you to control one or more servos by defining small timed sequences called segments. A segment is basically a timeline.
To control the timing of your keyframes you define cue-points. Your keyframes define the position of a target (servo) at a given time.
When you recall your sequence the library automagically controls your servos and perform the described animation taking care of timing, interpolation and even easing for you.

I want to add some animation sequences to Felix. Teach him a few tricks.
But describing the coordinated movements of a set of 8 servos as cue points and rotations is tedious.

Instead i start working on a simple animation editor. The idea is that you edit segments while your board is connected so you can drag and position your servos in real time. In that way you can test/play your segments until you get your moves right.

The tool will let you combine multiple segments into animations and export an animation as a js file that you can add to your own project.

The video below shows my first attempt at an UI using  PaperJS to implement the graphing and interaction.