Earlier this year I introduced myself and my first robot on these forums but it was a General Discussion post and so now that I've made some progress on Dorian I thought it's time to make a proper Project Showcase for him.
Dorian is a fairly small humanoid robot with a retro style design. He stands about 40 cm tall and has a build quite similar to the JD humanoid robot, with the addition of two hip servos and an ultrasonic distance sensor.
The chassis is my own design, while the joints and brackets connecting servos are modified versions of EZ-Robot designs.
The general goal for Dorian is to have him join me at various events and have him interact with people, but more importantly, have people interact with him. I'm hoping I'll be able to make him smart and engaging enough for people to feel inspired about social robots and realize how advanced robots we can actually make today - if using the right products and knowing the right community
In my previous post some of you were asking about seeing him in action and if he could walk yet. Today I uploaded the first video with Dorian's walking animation so I hope you'll give it a look and hopefully you'll enjoy! He may look like a drunk toddler but atleast he's moving forward...! Sort of.
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very nice update.speaker idea is great.
Thanks for sharing the updates with us @Sebediah
Dorian is looking great! I'm looking forward to see part 2!
I'm also very impressed that you were able to do all your designs with TinkerCAD! I've used the software, and while being easy to use I know how difficult it is to make complex designs.
Oh and good luck with the move!
Wonderful update! I really enjoyed that you showed the robot first in the video, and later talked about the details on the modifications. It's neat to see what software you 3d design with. I hope your youtube channel gets the attention it deserves!
@Sebediah, thank you for sharing that, I really enjoyed seeing the update and your break up the parts is brilliant! I take it you don't print as much support material either? I love the internal loops for wire tie attachments too! How does your XYZ printer do on printing the servo hubs?
My XZY printer stinks at printing the servos hubs specifically or I specifically stink at printing them, I can't till which.
Thank you all for the nice comments! It did take a while to put together this video (and the next one) so it's very encouraging to get such positive response.
@Patrick Glad you enjoyed the update! I'm also very fond of the new speakers, hehe.
@Jeremie TinkerCAD... for me it is the very definition of a love/hate relationship, haha. I'd never done any 3D modeling when I started designing Dorian so it felt like a good place to start, now I've been too lazy to go on to a better alternative. The weird glitches and other heartaches that TinkerCAD so generously offers have made me ragequit and shut off the PC at more than one occasion, haha.
@DJ Thanks! Happy you liked the update. I'm thinking the channel might get a bit more attention once I can keep a more steady flow of videos coming from time to time. It will certainly be easier to make more content after we've moved to the new place. For now I'm happy with the way things are going though, got a handful of loyal followers so can't complain, haha.
@Justin That's right, with the way I'm printing them now I'm barely using any supports at all which I'm very happy about. From my experience, the XYZ really struggles to print servo hubs if printed in any angle that requires supports in there. That was one of the main reasons why I ended up making new designs for pretty much all of my joints. Now that they're split into two parts, I can print the part with the servo hub lying flat on the printbed, using no support what so ever inside the hubs. Fine detail, slow print time and very high infill and they turn out really great. I printed a few test pieces just to abuse them on a dead servo I have, and they showed no signs of breaking or crumbling the way they used to!
I just join this website, and your post is my first visit. You have done nice robot which I hope to do too.
Hello there bunnam, welcome to the community! As someone who's still very new to building robots, let me just say you've come to the right place, hehe.
Take a look at the other robot showcase posts, there are many amazing robot builders on these forums!
Sebediah, I really like the Retro Look. You have built an interesting Robot, and made great updates. Thank you for sharing. Steve S