I had a similar plan with one of my nephew's Fur Real pets last Christmas but it was too small for the V3. I've since been looking for a bigger motorised dog to do this with (ideally life size), more so now for security than before.
I have been looking for along time for some thing like this but every one I found was way to small and brand new lol
Today I found a little old thrift store that I did not know about before and I found fred in a pile of junk so I picked him up and asked the little old lady "how much" well she asked me where I plan on taking him.
I said I was going to take him home and that I was going to dissect him lol
All she did was smile and say have a great time with him and would not let me give her any $ at all for him
All I could say was "Thank You You made my day"
Now I think it will be a hard build for me as much of it will need to be completely rebuilt to make the legs work right lol
It may take some time to do lol
these next photos will give you a better idea of its size
I don't know if I can add a camera to it but there is a lot of it I want to keep
Light up eyes ..... have not seen them working yet
Working Mouth with pressure sensor in it
Waking tail
What I will add to it is pressure sensors in the feet and maybe a light in the dog caller to flash when it talks just like in the movie "Up" I thing that dogs name was Doug
lol I can see it now lol
Fred the blind little dog that can speak lol
The origial mechanism of the fred looks similar to a wooden mechanical mammoth that me and my son built a couple of years ago, is there not enough room inside his body for a motor shield to assist with movement?
I had a similar plan with one of my nephew's Fur Real pets last Christmas but it was too small for the V3. I've since been looking for a bigger motorised dog to do this with (ideally life size), more so now for security than before.
Will be watching this one with a close eye.
I have been looking for along time for some thing like this but every one I found was way to small and brand new lol
Today I found a little old thrift store that I did not know about before and I found fred in a pile of junk so I picked him up and asked the little old lady "how much" well she asked me where I plan on taking him.
I said I was going to take him home and that I was going to dissect him lol
All she did was smile and say have a great time with him and would not let me give her any $ at all for him
All I could say was "Thank You
You made my day"
Now I think it will be a hard build for me as much of it will need to be completely rebuilt to make the legs work right lol
It may take some time to do lol
these next photos will give you a better idea of its size
I don't know if I can add a camera to it but there is a lot of it I want to keep
Light up eyes ..... have not seen them working yet Working Mouth with pressure sensor in it Waking tail
What I will add to it is pressure sensors in the feet and maybe a light in the dog caller to flash when it talks just like in the movie "Up" I thing that dogs name was Doug
lol I can see it now lol Fred the blind little dog that can speak
lol
Turns out that there is not lights in the eyes there is IR sensors
But I will replace them with RGB leds or 2 cameras if I can fit them in
I have been doing alot of thinking about this project and desided to compleatly replase all od freds guts
If i try to work with what it there it will be alot harder than if i just keep the shell and add in all new parts
Any thoughts on what i should do with Freb ¿
Hi there @ wolfie,
The origial mechanism of the fred looks similar to a wooden mechanical mammoth that me and my son built a couple of years ago, is there not enough room inside his body for a motor shield to assist with movement?
The old mechanism is just to primitive for walking so I plan to completely redo it all with servos and stuff
Just not to sure on how I will make it work :S lol