Hello all It's been a while since I posted, been busy catching up on back orders for IKON so that took up most of my time.
I finished Doombot's skeleton/frame and I took him apart to make molds so I can reproduce the parts in aluminum and carbon fiber and kevlar. Its gonna be one mean deadly machine.
Anyway in the meantime I created Dirgebot, a smaller, less menacing and simpler to program (less moving parts) machine that's somewhat kid-friendly (for me). I wanted something my kid can play with (she wont even go in the room where Doom was parked).
Anyhoo here is the progress. Depending on how this proto goes I may market this model as a complete, not a kit, but something that can be used out of the box with no guesswork. I'm looking for an ARC programmer who can work with me, in exchange for stake in the future company. I recently established Bertone Industries, LLC and I have access to a warehouse and it will be manufactured here in the US using rotocasting techniques. Please contact me if interested here: [email protected]. Thanks guys!
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This still uses the V3 board and a webcam, alongside the W3 Iconia mounted on its chest. I will upgrade soon. Please be nice to us dinosaurs! haha
He stands at 3' 4" currently.
Testing the arm
Head armature
Sketching the head
Chestplate attached
Nearly finished sculpt. I'm gonna make a tutorial for making molds and casting fiberglass panels. This head is gonna be produced in fiberglass, alongside the rest of the robot when the sculpting is done. Hope you all like it.
Other robots from Synthiam community
DJ's Super Six Hexapod
Tameion's Lawrence The Butler
@Richard R, Try "Blender". If you have not been into 3D applications there is a steep learning curve. But it is free and powerful.
I have been working with 3D Max since it came on the market in the 90s. Big cost associated with it but I have seen work come out of Blender that rivals anything from the big studio packages.
Just a thought
http://www.blender.org/
@pacowang
Maybe you can do the 3D renderings of my work like @Richard R was asking?
@Doombot
What do you have?
@pacowang
Send me an email marcbertone39(at)gmail.com. Thanks
Updates... Did some fabrication last weekend.
Temporarily checking how the torso matches the base.
Right arm assembly almost finalized. I love how the wide shoulders and the oversized claw fits the wide base. I pretty much winged the dimensions off the sketches and somehow I got lucky. I'm loving this build. Good luck tipping this robot over. It's one heavy duty machine.
@Richard R If you like how the claw looks I'll send you a pair.
@Doombot, that is just sick
@pacowang
Yeah I know man I got problems
@Doombot, good problems compadre