Back Story of the Gnome The above is a video of the Drunken Gnome (Credits to ZiFeng who helped me with the video). This type of gnome can only be found in the cold climates of the northern regions. Human beings can only see these garden gnomes near the winter season as they hibernate throughout the rest of the year.… Read more →
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. Adding… Read more →
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 →
The construction of this set up took almost a day to complete. It was extremely tedious and I used close to 200 cable ties and 55 springs. The above is just the first plate with 2 springs and 3 cable ties. The first 5 plates were pretty easy but when it goes above 5, the set up starts to… Read more →
Quick update for the four spring set up The four spring set up looks decent with the first layer done but it is unable to be build higher than one level as there is some problems with attaching more plates on it due to the design (I forgot to add a hole for one part of the spring). I did… Read more →
Previously on Robotics Semester Project Update I mentioned that I will be testing out on these three sketches to see how the spring assembly works for each set up. I have now made the three sketches. On the left will be sketch ONE, middle is sketch TWO and right is sketch THREE. Testing of Sketch ONE (Left of the Sketch) When… Read more →
Printed Here are the printed parts ready for testing. The base is blue so that the distinction from the base and the spring set up is easier to identify for video documentation. There are a total of 6 circle plates that would make the main moving body. The 4 small cylinders are use to anchor the base in place when… Read more →
Build Sketches My idea is to make a robotic version of a tall boy, the inflatable. As my project requires a series of studies on the movement of the interactions between the springs and the motor, I decided to have 3 prototype to experiment with the visual movements of each the the individual set up. The Left (Teal) In… Read more →
Initial Idea My initial idea for robotics is to build a robot version of tall boy (people use it for events, gas stations or just creating the atmosphere of fun in general). Why? When I think of robotics I would always associate it with electronics, wires, parts, motors, etc, I was never associating it with fun. I hope that this… Read more →
