[Robotgroup] New Photos: Animatronic Baby Build

[Vern Graner]

Eric & I went to visit Meredith and Carolyn at the secret laboratory of 
Hawgfly productions:

http://www.hawgfly.com

Where we helped Meredith make a baby! :) We even took pictures! :D But 
seriously, these folks were commissioned to make an animatronic prop 
baby that could wave its arms for a television series. Though they had 
gobs of experience in casting, molding, painting, makeup etc, they had 
no practical experience in animatronics. They already had a prop rubber 
"baby" to modify so all they needed was the electronics and the advice.

So, we all piled in the car and headed over to Hobbytown where they 
bought a starter RC kit consisting of a Futaba 4 channel radio 
transmitter, a receiver, batteries, charger and four servos (Futaba 
S3004's) all for $119. I also suggested that they buy some hi torque 
servos to use to move the arms as I expected that the rubber arms might 
bind a bit with the rubber body of the prop baby. Add in two HITEC 
servos to the bag and away we went.

Eric and I spent the afternoon coaching (but not actually DOING 
anything) so they could get a good feel for how to work with the 
components. Anyway, the result was a fully working animatronic prop 
baby! Pictures of the progress are here:

http://www.notepad.org/baby

:)

Vern

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