Showing posts with label animatronics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animatronics. Show all posts
Friday, October 13, 2023

It's alive...

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Got the hand moving after about 20 hours of 3D printing parts. I have some metal gear micro servos coming next week but was able to scavang...
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Monday, October 9, 2023

3RD HAND

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I think I finally found the perfect robotic hand .  This finger was pretty easy to print out and assemble.  79,87,54,0,B
Thursday, October 5, 2023

from the "art"chives..

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Unearthed an old project from my high school days - a crude model of a hand with fingers that moved when the crank was turned.  Since I have...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

printer back in business...

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

2 axis test...

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

more heads...

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Rumor has it - this project will require 6 heads... 93,102,66,0,B
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Monday, September 18, 2023

TinyTalkingHead

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3D printed head 1.3" tall with mount for micro servo actuation of the mouth.  92,98,64,0,B
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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Movement programming - Part A

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Got delivery on Friday of more Arduino Nano microcontrollers so I could try this out.  Amazed once again that this actually worked as advert...
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Thursday, September 7, 2023

Movement programming...

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Waiting on parts to try these two methods. 96,101,67,0,B
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Bright eyes demo...

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This is the second try at installing lights for the eyes.  The first product I bought said it was "bendable" but was stiff plexigl...
Monday, September 4, 2023

more eye work...

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Saturday, September 2, 2023

check out those little eyes...

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This build was inspired by early 20th century fortune teller machines. I came across the iron giant while looking for a design for a new ta...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

IG Box

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

IG Box

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Bright eyes...

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Rigged the new talking head so the eyes light up when the LEDs on my Echo Dot are activated - using an LDR (light dependent resistor) that ...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

one spare sound board for the next project...

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Friday, August 18, 2023

more jawduino boards

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Prepping new sound boards.  I have more mouths to move... 93,99,69,0,B
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

code flop...

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Ever since I successfully fired up the eye mechanism, the only thing that annoyed me was that the up/down control of the eyeballs was revers...
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Monday, August 14, 2023

From a previous life...

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Revisited a 27-year-old animatronics project from my prop building days in NYC.  I originally built this using an old manakin head I found ...
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Saturday, August 12, 2023

automata...

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