This is so cool! my friend and I are making an octopus animatronic for a horror movie, and we are thinking of using your design! We are going to tweak it so it has one eye to capture the kind of scary octopus look. Thank you so much for the great content!!
Just ran across your series of videos. Fantastic! I'm always amazed at the number of geniuses out there like you. Hope you keep up the great work. Someday I'll learn this stuff. :-)
Woohoo, the next piece! Also forgot to mention I love how you add a snippet of reversed footage. First noticed it with the screws in the first eye mechanism :)
@@WillCogley my pleasure. by the way, I love the way you thought your design, i've been looking for an "easy" way to make animatronic eyes for a while. the eyes look amazing and clipping them on the mechanism is genius. I'm looking forward to see the machined one! keep doing great stuffs and thanks a lot for giving us the chance to do it too.
Hey, Will. These videos are GREAT! I have the shell for this joystick printed out already and am in the process of putting the electronics in it. Real quick, your website doesn't have a link to this video. The controllers section just says "Coming Soon" and all links take you to the Cat Laser project. I'll be donating SOON as these designs are GREAT! I have most of the Advanced Eye Mech also printed out, just waiting on parts!
Thanks! Here's a link to the assembly, this was one of the first things I designed in fusion since switching from solidworks so sorry its such a mess! a360.co/35Yad6r
I love the way you bring the creativity to all of us,I have questions that is this remote control possible to control drone and what extra button it requires if I want to build remote controller for drones!
I am actually using your files and modifying them to work with glamrock freddy head. It is scaled up to for the bigger eyes and servos, I have seen another fnaf cosplayer use your models. I am currently thing of using a gx16 plug to help with the wire management
I made this controler and eye mechanism. However, I have a question. Is it possible to somehow store the movements of the controller to program movement in some sort of teach in mode. In other words. Can I store the movements once set with the controller, and run it over and over again.
These videos are GREAT! How could I built a talking animatronic? Would it be posible to control servos us you do and record movements while mp3 is playing and creat a combined solution? I`m a total beginer. Where could I find step by step documenation? I read that a Raspberry and PCA9685 would be and option. It is posible to do so(movement a sincroniced sound) with an Arduino? Thank you!
so i have been trying to design stuff in fusion 360, but because i am kinda old school and like to design on paper. so how do you recomend transferring written design to cad design (specifically fusion 360).
Any tips on how to reverse the directions? For some reason left is right and right is left. I also didn't rotate the joystick, I copied the way you put it in in (the cheap one) and it seems up is right and down is left etc.. So i need to rotate it and then also reverse left and right. I figure instead of doing all that i might just be able to change the code? Any tips? The code is a bit hard to understand.
I'm in the middle of this built. By any chance do you have a wiring diagram with the parallax joystick. I ran 2 power cables from the input on the rotating lever and am linking the power line to the vcc? But not sure that's right
how did you manage to have it run so smooth? Whatever I do, I get servo jitter. doesn't matter on controllers, which servos I use, ferrite cores and so on. I even went as far as etching and making my own servo controller boards. Are those serial servos? Those are the only ones I haven't tried yet, due to cost.
Hmm not sure, I've never really had much of a problem. The servos are just MG90s so nothing special, could it be the joystick/potentiometer you're using to drive the servos? You can use the serial plotter in the Arduino IDE to look at the signal from the joystick to check.
Most likely a power supply problem. Run the servo's from a different power supply than your Arduino. Also make sure that the power supply can generate enough current, peak current can be as high as 5A when blinking.
I've considered false eyes for large, elaborate costumes, it's great to see your developments. Have you looked into eye tracking mechanisms? Having an eye rig that mimics your own eye movements would be amazing.
I've not looked into it too much myself, I remember seeing something similar here though: therandomlab.blogspot.com/2018/03/crazy-eyes-first-complete-prototype-test.html?m=1
@@bas9682 you need an Arduino control board and the Arduino programming software which is free. The rest is just wiring. Theres plenty of beginner information to help you get started if you search for it.
A budget 3d printer costs 200 dollar or less. Printing and assembling takes many hours, maybe days. Add costs for materials and shipping, and costs will go through the roof.
