EXACTLY! i think youdont have control over opening and closing the hand, it does it "auomatic ally" when moving he arm up and down.....if you look at the pic with the arm open it looks like the metal bar has some slack in it, meaning when its pulled tight, (arm raised) the bar pulls in on the hand......kinda dissapointing.

I like the idea of the eyebrows, but my problem would be the hinge, the bottom part of the eyebrow would still have to be attahed to the wall-e head....seems like over time this will break.

I am determinedd to make the wall-e blink...i will post pics on progress once i get something done.

radmeck - missed yur post thre,

a video would be epic!, i think i get what yur saying.

moving the neck left and right wont be hard, moving the head up and down, seems easy enough

but can i make the eyes tilt and move the head up and down is the questions....also wondering, if i keep most of the original componets for eye tilting, will i still be able to fit a wifi cam in one eye?......sorry for rambling, just way amped about this project...

thanks guys

Hoolagen1, if you want to make the eyebrows bend, buy some small hinges. You can find them at Home Depot and maybe some craft stores. Then using contact cement, bond the hinge to the eyebrow and the rest of Wall-e's eye.

I am doing a project (cant say yet) where I will be using a servo to open an area on my robot. I am using the hinge method and so far it works perfectly.

Hope this helped! ~TXTCLA55

Yes, I have an Ultimate WALL-E and it would be all sorts of disappointing if you purchased it thinking it would actually be as cool as it looked in the promotional videos. Out of the box I'd call it more animatronic than robotic. That being said, if you purchased it for the sole purpose of turning it into an "Asylum WALL-E" by hacking it up to do all the things it looks like it's capable of doing and adding a dose of EZ-B magic, then it's an outstanding platform to start with!

carlos - yes, if you do it the way I have, the neck on the U-Command WALL-E needs to be rigid because of the internal gearing. I had actually started designing a mechanism using two nano servos and tiny control arms inside the eye housings to tilt them independently so that I could then make the head go up and down. However, rather than drive myself to destroy my home with a sledge hammer, I decided I needed to be rational about my skills and accept that certain limitations were normal for any version 1 of a given build project. That's also when I decided to purchase an Ultimate WALL-E and hone my skills on the lesser WALL-E's before doing anything with him. Now I'm not trying to turn you away from doing exactly what you want to do. For me, however, I know for a fact I saved my home!

TXTCLA55, you can't say yet? What, are you hiding sensitive state secrets or something? It better have nothing to do with operating WALL-E's trash compactor or the Omnibot's clear head dome - I wanted to be first for those!

LOL yes radmeck, its really a need to know basis.

If you really want to know...its going to be something along the lines of the auto-bots from transformers in a way.

That's better...

Yea sorry, but I like to keep it a secret until its finished.

hello,

txt - thanks, i didnt now tiny hinges (small enought to fit in the eye) existed, i will be hitting my local stores this weekend, that should make this nice and easy....

Rad- thanks for the well explained post - i gotcha now....

If i want to keep the original eye tilt, the neck cannot move left to right due to internals... If i try to put in my own micro servers, i will def. loose my mind and destroy everything in sight.

i KNOW my skill set is much less than yours...so if you dint want to tackle the project neither will I.

Well said too, 1st project - know your limitations....Words to live by.

BUT......if that is the case, why the 2 servos for the neck?

I see one is attached to the chain mechanism, but there is also a smaller servo directly under the neck?

Do you need both to power the chain and make the eyes tilt?

THIS FORUM IS AWESOME!

Oh sorry, the neck can certainly move left and right (which is what the chain assembly is for) - what you can't do is make it go up and down! You basically retain the movements of the original design but gain the ability to operate them independently rather than as part of a mechanized routine...