Inspired by DJ Sures and many other Wall-E projects on here, i decided it's time to make my own Wall-E and he will be my first robot build. I wanted him to be as lively as possible. I give credit to Joc's and Glickclik for the geared neck tilt and wheels tilt ideas, i just made it my own using the same concept. I still have yet to fully understand ARC so additional help would be greatly appreciated. Here is what im at so far in the project, some of the parts are hand made from raw Carbon Fiber with only a dremel and i use some parts from a 450 R/C heli as well as bearings in some of the joints.
Done so far:
Metal gear high speed modified continuous servos for wheels.
Micro metal gear servos for wheels tilt.
Mini metal gear servos for vertical arms movements.
Micro servos for horizontal arms movement.
Micro metal gear servo for vertical neck tilt.
Mini metal gear servo for horizontal neck movements.
Micro servos for individual eye movement.
Sub-micro servos/mods for eye's lid animation.
Get rid of dummy cables in the head, run all servos/camera wires from head down the same way and use heat shrink/black nylon mesh for realistic look.
Red laser between eyes.
Mock up left eye's lens.
Other things to be added/changed as i go
Yet to be done:
Light up solar panel (most likely, still thinking) Red LED in front in the black spot next to the solar panel (definitely) Make his wrist rotate (don't know yet, still thinking)
Other robots from Synthiam community
Kenny's Humanoid #3, The Miniplan
Rgordon's Magnus The 6 Ft Robot
Nah. I got side tracked and bought the omni2000 and Mr Clock radio head. I also work. 72 weeks so not a lot of free time. I need to order DJs camera so maybe his receiver will work with my pencil cam. I also need to get a pan/tilt for the lower part of the neck. I wanted to make the arms extend but I havent found thin and flexible enough. Enough about mine..... Im totally impressed at your clean cuts and build of YOURS!! KUDOS! You set a higher bar!
Haha...Me too!!! I got addicted and bought Omnibot 2000, Buster, Robie Sr, Spy Gear 360 those are to be hacked. I have a larger robot in mind that i want to build from scratch but im not sure if i should get to that or go thru the others first, may be costly either way.
Thank you! I couldn't have done this without the inspirations from other projects, you might have noticed I don't use hot glue at all, i use screws where possible for durability. The tilt wheel idea of your was great! Shame you weren't able to finish him. Where did you get the flexible push rod? I might give that a try.
I can't wait to see what other cool project will pop up in here!
Looks really good!!
This looks like a great build. Welldone on getting this far. Liking plenty of photo's in your thread. I was also inspired by DJ's original real Wall-e and also Joc's etc etc and now your build
I might have a suggestion for an extending servo. I'll post a photo and a link soon.
Anyway, keep up the great work and keep up with the great updates to the thread.
Thanks guys...this vibes keep me going
@John...not looking to extend his arm, but im looking to make the hand rotate or finger(s) move, can't find a small enough servo and strong enough to fit inside the arm. For the fingers, i might get by with flexible push rod which i can't find any yet. Geared motor might work for arm rotating but i don't know what i need, i know i will need a motor controller of some sort. Aggr...only if i can get my hand on Wall-E Ultimate for cheap, it's larger to work with.
OK - Understood.
I bought a couple of these small linear servos
I wasn't expecting them to be up to much, and thought that I might use them in the arms or adding Wall-e's eyebrow covers. They only have about 10mm travel with the EZB
but that might be enough to operate the thumb/finger. Here's a photo I took for you with them resting on the Wall-e arm. I also took another photo of another small servo I had, to help you out.
Thanks for photos. I have similar servos here but i think its too weak for constant load of just the hand parts. I'll see what i can come up with later or just leave it be.
Got some more work done on the eye over the weekend, boy it was extremely difficult and lot of fiddling to fit the camera and a servo into one eye and still use all original parts with minimal hack and slash while keeping it clean. Just one eye for now (sorry Wall-E), the other eye shouldn't be as difficult. I will not be putting LEDs in the eye because original movie Wall-E doesn't have any.
Camera PCB mod: added diodes for powering directly off EZ-B, removed internal battery, usb jack, on/off button, antenna socket to be rewire inside Wall-E body in the back.
I'm waiting for smaller servo wires, i'll be changing out the wires because standard servo wires are too thick and unnecessarily, i want to use smaller braid and get cleaner route thru the back of Wall-E neck and down into the body.