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First part I received, the collar
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More parts, bubblehead, radar section and torso hooks
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Freshly painted leg and knee section. The leg style is season one, but I am making this robot season two style
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Another shot of legs after painting
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Just painted torso. Paint is from an auto body paint supply
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Torso with chest bezel for teeth lights, and belly lights installed.
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Starting of light wiring for light controller; I've installed the teeth light buttons
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More light wiring, after I had received the two large Dialight chest lights. I colored each bulb with a red and green sharpie marker
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More light wiring
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I initially painted the claws an incorrect color, oops!
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A better color, Rustoleum Safety Red
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Finished claw and wrist assembly, just painted
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Installed light box for teeth lights
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Programming bay
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Micromo motor for ears, to spin sensors
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Radar with mechanical ears attached. I later replaced these ears with another set of ears with micro motors installed
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Radar with wiring, motors installed in ears, and sensors attached. See video below
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Torso with all lights installed and wired. See video below.
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Just received treadsections
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Freshly painted treadsection, just back from body shop
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Wrist claw assembly attached to rubber arm with wrist band, wrist latches and torso pins
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First stackup, yay!
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Bubble with brain installed. Video below
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Linear actuator for neck
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Aluminum wheels, just installed. I polished them by hand (ugh!)
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Neck linear actuator
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Another shot of aluminum wheels
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Collar with motor and lazy susan attached
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Backplate with neon attached
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Plastic geartrack and gear for torso rotation
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Collar with neck motor. I've since lowered the motor
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Another shot of aluminum wheels
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Close-up of power-pack
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Rubber treadbelts
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Rubber treadbelts installed
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I've scrapped the support pole for neck linear actuator, and attached the actuator directly to the radar. Here is a shot inside looking up.
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Finally starting to look like it is almost done!
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Robot's "voicebox", using Mike Joyce's IB9 program and Mac Windows emulation program
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Another pic of mac mini "voicebox", in robot treadsection.
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Animation controller...I've scrapped using this because of positioning difficulties, and will be using r/c motor controllers instead (see next pic)
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R/C motor controllers for torso, neck and radar motors
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Final wiring
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Headless robot, almost there...
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Yay, done!!! (well, until I upgrade parts)
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Another view...done!!
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