[Robotgroup] New Photos: Animatronic Baby Build

[john at cozmicfunk.com]

Interesting, but where is th rest of the animation? shouldn't the head 
and the legs be moving...

<Anyway, the result was a fully working animatronic prop 
baby!>


Vern Graner wrote:
> Video of the baby prop operating:
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> http://www.youtube.com/hawgfly
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> :)
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> Vern
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> Vern Graner wrote:
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>> Eric & I went to visit Meredith and Carolyn at the secret laboratory of 
>> Hawgfly productions:
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>> http://www.hawgfly.com
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>> 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:
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>> http://www.notepad.org/baby
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Vern
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