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Meccano Meccanoid Upgrades/Mods

I need help to upgrade my Meccano Meccanoid Robot,  it is a robot kit,  and I've had the robot for a while. I want to upgrade the microphone,  maybe have a led sound activated mouth,  and maybe working hands with servos. Please help,  how can I maybe upgrade the internal microphone and maybe add hands?


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#9  

hi dj /jedi legend

for the big meccanoid best to use the HDD servo's . the big meccanoid has huge arms . you can give him a turning wrist . i wil post a video of mine meccanoid later .

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#10  

hi jedi

here's a short video about the little meccanoid . all servo"s are HDD . cause the arms are heavy . also use as mutsh spacers to make plastik strong . make slow motions . you can use the original horns from the meccanoid , just take a note these are spring loaded . the arms will nog go all the way up . the size of the HDD servo's and mecca servo's are desame . you also need a bigger battery . i stil have allot of spare parts and bolts , if you need some , let me know. the servo block is for using a turning wrist . i post the folder here .

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/of7HTv5zYIM

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#11  

That's great! That would be nice if you do have some spare parts too.  Do you have any ideas for a mouth,  or like a led reactive display? I was trying to find one , but I could find any I can actually buy.  I did also fix the microphone so that's good now.

#13  

That could possibly work,  not sure if it will be too big,  did you see any that are maybe smaller in width,  but longer in length?

#14  

I have a Meccano Meccanoid robot at home. I didn't upgrade it. I tried to. However, those screws hardened in over time. I've had it since 2015. It was so fun when it worked really well. I haven't touched it in years. When I ended up getting it, I noticed that it's servos were similar to those of my AdventureBot. I didn't have any other EZ- Robots at that point. I remember in my AdventureBot and Six Hexapod instruction manual, it says not to move the servos as it could damage what's inside of them. The fun part is that almost five years ago, there was a video on Synthiam YouTube channel where one JD is being used as a puppet to control another JD. Those were more updated servos that could handle it better.

#15  

@DJ Sures, I actually ordered a display like that last summer and it works amazingly well!

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Belgium
#16  

hi averyone

this part is the mouth for the meccanoid . you could ad some LED more in it .

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