Im so proud Rob is really pulling Himself together. Thought my servos would be here yesterday but no such luck. I am starting to get paranoid about my Kinect now with all the problems Grog is having. I think I may just purchase brand new in the box to forgo any problems.

I am going to show my printer some calibration love now before I move on to the shoulders. I'm pretty well dialed in but want to make double sure. 

I came across an example from Biotronic Exoskeletons the other day that gives me some great design ideas for all the 12v linear actuators i have laying around in my garage, but I have to have an upper body to carry around on legs first so I better get busy. 

Inmoov Nation is alive and well in the states.

Dwayne (dwilli9013)

kmcgerald

10 years 2 months ago

Well you seem to be ahead of my unyet named InMoov. You have the entire head assembled whereas I only have the eyes, nose, and chin parts on the face.  I do have my Kinect installed with one of the UnderKinect parts installed. Both warped during printing and I would have to force the second one in. I have built the entire right hand but I'm still printing the shoulder joint and bicep.

Must be nice to have a bunch of 12v linear actuators "lying around" the garage.  :)

dwilli9013

10 years 2 months ago

Ah no race here, besides you'll blow past me when it comes time for me to start moving everything around.

Ordered my Kinect yesterday and my 2 805's for the head arrived today. I need to get Rob on a post now. 

The linear actuators are nice A buddy of mine gave them to me from his work. They were throwing them out.

Brand new still in the box. It's very rare that I luck out like that. 

So is your camera working out well? I still need to buy them but am not certain what to get yet.

Well I've had electronics and motors for a good while but I haven't actaully tried making anything other than the hand move.

The HD-6000 does fit in the head but I needed to file off a good amount of plastic from the back of the eye opening. I also had to take off (probably permanently) the clip base from the camera so if I ever want to use it on something else again I'll have to design and 3d print something. I simply stuck it to the mounting plate with a 3M command strip.  If I had ripped off the back plate of the housing I probably would have picked up a couple mm of space but under it is a heatsink and I wasn't really keen on attaching the camera by the heatsink.  I could probably pull the mounting piece into OpenSCAD and cut out a square hole to fit the camera in and even add a small floor plate to snap the remains of the clip into.

kmcgerald

10 years 2 months ago

I love the random blue piece in the base of the neck.  On mine that part is red simply because I was too lazy to change filament and wanted to print something for InMoov.