Tested Lessons: Basic Animatronics, Part 2

14 thoughts on “Tested Lessons: Basic Animatronics, Part 2”

1. Nice, just finished part 1 and was wondering when part 2 would be out. Low and behold! Thanks

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2. It seems like Joey had some fun. Flaming skull for the win!

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3. Can’t wait for part 3, and for Halloween to come and give me a reason to do animatronics monsters!!

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4. Shoppe is pronounced like shop, just like the pseduo-archaic “Ye” as in the “Ye shoppe” being pronounced “the”.

   For “ye”, it developed gradually, as the grapheme Y was used to replace the letter þ (thorn, now replaced by the digraph “th”) in print because their graphemes look nearly identical in handwritten scripts.

   In the case of shoppe however, that is just a “stylistic” choice.

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5. That analysis determining the pivot point for the servo makes a lot of sense. I can see that being a common rookie mistake.

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6. Should have commented on video one about this, however you are able to order parts cheap from a site called hobbyking. Their servos if my memory is correct are around a few dollars a piece. Also depending on the radio you purchase you may not be able to program out problems as the cheaper radio/transmitters are not always programmable.

   Also would you be able to show the wiring setup for the wall wart/plug power source option? That is the one part of this project I foresee having difficulty figuring out.

   Thanks

   P.S. The pointy things that go on the servos are called control horns

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7. What you guys are making are really four-bar linkages made up of the jaw, skull, servo arm, and threaded rod:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-bar_linkage

   This is the same type of mechanism that makes your windshield wipers work or a strandbeest walk. Just change the length of the arms or maybe attach something to the arms, and you can produce a huge variety of different motions.

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8. GODDAMIT!! The first video in this series worked absolutely fine…….today…absolute shit. I had to refresh the page 4 times before it even started to play, and now it plays for 5 seconds and stops to forever buffer……my internet is not throttled, it happens to me both in firefox AND chrome……has anyone had this problem and fixed it?

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9. Nope, works like a charm..

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10. Is your flash version up to date? I’ve had issues in the past when the flash plugin is a bit out of date. Although I really wish the site used an html5 player as the player does seem a bit flaky from time to time.

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11. I can smell the burning plastic from here.

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12. Yup. Chrome auto updates flash anyways. It sucks. I have gone back and watched the Printrbot Build, with the old player, and that works fine.

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13. Also…..I just went to double check, and the Printrbot build is gone…….conspiracy?

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14. I could be wrong, but looks like it’ll be a prick to get those servos out if you did want to change them, having the horn on the other side of the mount and all. I could be wrong though, they might just slide out. I think with the four arm horn it’d be in there permanently

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