Hello, Now that I have moved on from my Inmoov I have been itching for a project. I would really like something unique and I have been enjoying the design aspect of it. Since I never properly named my Inmoov I am starting with a name. It is Scratch. Because I am sure it will get it's share of dings and scratches but also because I am starting this design from scratch. A singe eye is where I will start. I wanted a gimbled eye that looked kinda cool. It needs to move in the X and Y direction. I wanted it to have some form of interactive feature that could be used to help emote. So a blinkiing iris type of eyelid it will be. I also wanted a camera and a neopixel ring in the eye.
So here we go;
I needed a way to traverse the eyepod and I was considering two eyes for some configurations. So I designed this cross mount. It uses 3D printer belts and printed pulleys. I needed the whole assembly to move extremely smoothly and the linkage arrangements I tried were too jerky. This moves really smoothly.
I am not quite sure where this is going. I was thinking maybe a replacement head for inmoov for people that want something a little different. Maybe it will be part of a walking robot, who knows. I'll post some more information and videos before too long.
Other robots from Synthiam community
Dunning-Kruger's Ez Dog (Inmoov Frankendog Failure)
DJ's I Shall Call Him Norm
Out of CAD and into the real world.
I can't wait to see what the rest will look like.
Looks like a fun project Perry, nice work on the eyes. I'll be watching for your updates.
@Perry, Very nice work on the eyes, from the photos the print quality looks excellent!
The size looks really big given your hand in the photo as a reference? How big will be the head?
As others have said, watching for updates.
Again fantastic work!
Very cool looking, thanks for sharing Perry! Definitely watching for updates as well
Thanks all, I am having fun.
@cem each eye is 100mm in dia. I was thinking this should be an appropriate sized humanoid head for something the size of an inmoov.
It will be bigger than a human head. The way I am looking at this is funny. Inmoov is designed by humans to look mostly human. Mostly but not exact. I am seeing this from the side of an alien race! This design represents what the alien designed as a 3D printed robot to look mostly like them. It's making it fun.
@Perry that's a great idea using printer belts and printed pulleys. would you be willing to share the STL files for the pulleys, that could be most useful in Robot design. I have been working on a female Robot head and I think printer belts and pulleys would be very useful. the Head is normal human size but has the look of an android.
I am starting to get accustomed to the belt and pulleys. I use the 2GT standard. You can find a lot of stuff on Thingiverse or just design your own by looking up the parameters on Google. I did the latter.
Here is a quick vid showing some of the basic eye controls. Mostly a EZR servo touch pad. Have the blink function in there which rapidly closes and opens the iris
Se a few things to fix but holding up pretty good for now.