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
Daman's Meet Ray. My Custom Friendlybot
Kab's Ogie The Bear In Action
Some more things I've done:
Replaced wheel servos with high speed/high voltage metal gear servos, now Wall-E goes way faster
Cut off the custom arms used for body tilt at the bottom for more body tilt angle.
Mod and installed servo servo in 2nd eye, made CF arm for eye tilt.
Wall-Enator
Attempting the animated eye's lids...wish me luck!
What did you use to make such clean cuts??
All the cutting are done with a 5 years old dremel only, the key is to keep your hand steady, no sudden movement, draw the line before you cut it so you have something to follow, set slow on the speed or plastic will melt, cut a little stop cut a bit more then stop and repeat, don't rush!
I may have the wrong bit in there for delicate work. :/ I thought of your idea but didnt think I could get it to work. Im glad you did ! ! It looks VERY clean.
Ooh - that looks dificult. I am going to wish you luck....but it looks like you doing a great job. I have even more respect for you attempting this. Keep up the good work. Are you going to run out of ports on the EZB board with all the servos ? LOL
@Glickclik I'm using a heavy duty cutting disc, its brown color, thinnest one you can get at home depot, its in a round tube pack of 10 or 20 don't remember. I was thinking the same, but i like challenges and really want Wall-E to look alive and have more personality so i went...ahh screw it! Lets do this, then i sat there for hours starting into the eye stress thinking of a solution, thought if i make a mistake with the cutting I can still make a new eye lid by cutting and bending one of the thin aluminum sheet I have. Turns out I didn't have to but still got the other eye to do...crossing my fingers! no room for mistake
@John_S4x4 Everyone needs luck sometime! even if you think you can do it, sometime things don't go as you plan. I hope not, i think im up to 14 ports now including camera, still need to add sensors/compass, hope i don't run out of ports
. What i have done so far are just mechanicals and don't mean a thing if i don't know how to set up the software part. I'll try my best first but still need major help in that area!
Ohh i didnt think those could work on plastic. It sure does! I will definately use it next time.