Robotic and Kinetic Media

Before adding fur coat

Testing the motors and labelling them is a good idea to know which motors are activated.

When I am making the weave for the fur of the character, I decided to use this method shown in the gif to make it. It was simple but really tedious. Below are the green fur I am using.

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New Arms for the motor

Motor Holder

The above are the new arms and motors holders (that I forgot to address in my previous post). The arms allows a full range of motion by pulling the strings (which only requires 90 degrees of motor movement). The grooves on the arms allows me to tie the strings onto them if I Read more →

My main focus while calibrating the length of the strings is the recovery to its original position after a string is pulled. From the above Gif, we can see that the structure is successful in doing so.

I did a testing of flexibility towards every direction it can rotate.

Played with the springy structure to see the maximum compressed Read more →

There is only testing and remodeling, testing and remodeling after i went to simlim to look for a battery 2 weeks ago.

After that, the battery could also power no more than 3 servo at once so I purchases some AC-DC 6V 10A converter online and had been waiting for its arrival since then.

meanwhile waiting, all I did was re-model almost Read more →

My first attempt was using the 360 degree servo motor attached the Pikachu using normal thread. However I found out that the centre position of the servo motor keep changing, probably due to power shortage or something. Moreover the strength for servo motor could not help me to hold the weight of umbrella.

After that I moving on to in Read more →

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First, you will need an EZbuy account, it will be really worth it. Best part, they have collection point from Canteen 2 in NTU!!

Buying from Taobao /EZbuy won’t guarantee the quality, occasionally  will you receive item that doesn’t work but they are CONFIRM 3X to 10X cheaper than Simlim Tower.

Waiting time is anywhere from 5days to 3 week (5 days Read more →

Light – the camera(s) that sought to take over the DSLR

https://www.facebook.com/UNILADTech/videos/2040069899604054/

This camera with its imaginative concept of having multiple lenses (probably stemmed from Huawei’s and Apple’s dual camera idea) that allow for the capturing of large megapixel image in a pocket-sized camera. Stitched using software, the multiple images combined produce huge resolution files which also captures depth and allow for Read more →