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)
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THIS LOOK GREAT!!!! The servo still fits too!!! Love the braid idea.
Thanks...was a bit of headache trying to fit everything inside with camera centered and still want to keep original look and putting everything back together was a paint too, i would say the eye is the most difficult part of this project. Next up is the other eye and tidy up the wires.
You did a really GREAT Job on this Article.
Bravo!!!
Mel
I agree. a great job on the eye. Looks really dificult, to get everything in there and spot on. Welldone ! This is turning out to be one sweet build.
You could really make a good "Instructable" once all is completed. Keep taking pics on the progress!
Why do you need two diodes ? Sorry noob at electronics guess that why I love the ez-b as you don't need know that much.
Love your work by the way.
*Edit what are the plan for the antenna or are you removing it completely.
Thanks guys, that's very encouraging
@Algeraist The diodes are for dropping the voltage down powering the camera directly from EZ-B, EZ-B output 5V, camera battery is 3.7V, don't want to take any chance to fry it. For the antenna, i will test the range first without the antenna (i just need Wall-E to move all over the house without losing signal) or i move it to the back of Wall-E. I'll be doing a bluetooth antenna hack as well on the USB dongle to increase range.
While waiting for smaller servo wires to come in so i can rewire Wall-E eyes, I thought I'd tackled the sound part of Wall-E. Check it out:
synthiam.com/Community/Questions/1362