Building my favorite childhood robot --CLANK Part 1

I got it in my head that I could build a robot I  woke up one morning and decided that I was going   to make warbot defect b54 29671 maybe I'll just  call you Clank and I didn't want him to be a 3D   print that just sits on my shelf I wanted him  to be alive I wanted him to be an animatronic   and of course I wanted him to be in backpack  form so I can carry him around at conventions I   don't have experience in animatronics but I did  make some articulating Wings a couple years ago   with geeks on podcast and I've animated LEDs with  Arduino before but that's pretty much the extent   of my experience so most of this was trial and  err but I think I ended up with a pretty cool   little guy so enough talking and let's build this  thing for quite a while I've been subscribed to   James Bruin's Channel this is a wealth of  information regarding Robotics and in one   of his videos he built a three AIS robotic head  this was the basis of say the first 2 months of   this build these were the downloadable files for  his Servo control instead of using an Arduino I   chose the root of a palulu maestro which comes  with an easy to ous programming software I got   the mini Maestro 12 because I thought I wanted  a lot more servos in him but the cheaper six   channel would have been perfect for this project  I also bought some cheap servos on Amazon this   was my first test of the 3x's head and it was  not bad I even was able to quickly put in a   sequence though it took some time to figure out  how to slow it down and ease the Motions into one another for the ual Clank model I thought I'd  skip a few steps and use this Clank figure   from cts.com I was really hoping I could skip  modeling his outsides completely but that was   wishful thinking in reality while the file was  extremely helpful at first I eventually had to   model the most of it myself file was too low  poly and kept breaking when I modified him   you could see polygons acting weird and  intercepting each other when I tried to   hollow it this caused a lot of problems despite  these errors I did manage to make this first pla print the SP head and 3axis mechanism helped  me problem solve issues like this where the   weight of the head would get the servos into  a feedback loop and shake this was caused by   a rickety mechanism and two quick movements of  eventually replaced the mechanism and animated   a smoother code for his eyes I knew I  wanted monitors with an animated movie   file his eyes do a lot of emoting since he  doesn't have eyebrows and I knew I'd just   be disappointed in mechanical eyelids after  much searching I found Raspberry Pi Snake   Eyes Bonnet project on the ad of website  this kit comes with the Bonnet itself and headers this is a small TFT display and it comes  with two of them and it also comes with a lot of   cables these displays were the largest small  ones that I could find it was either way too   big or just big enough so this isn't perfect  fit but it's definitely close enough this is   rated as an intermediate project on the site  and requires a lot of soldering they have a   pretty lengthy tutorial on how to do the  basic setup to use their open G ey program   I already knew that I wanted to replace the  open G Eye Program their basic standard eyes   with my own animated eyes but it's best  to get it working then change the code later this is what my eyes currently look like  not what we want well now I have two at least why I need some help with my aduit  Snake Eyes Bonnet I am only getting this   and it's been about 3 days of me trying I thought  it might have been a hardware issue like a wiring   issue I desoldered res soldered I tried three  different Pi 3s um I have everything wired up   correctly like nothing crosses I installed all  the software probably three or four times over   just in case I messed anything up and I'm still  getting kind of this same image so I'd really   appreciate any help if you have any ideas thanks  after 3 days on forums and a lot of wrong advice   I finally got the right advice and this is  the moment when I booted it up for the first time they're working oh my gosh oh my gosh they work it's actually mirrored  over here too but I finally got them to work   I installed the wrong operating system I had  installed uh an older version of the operating   system on the Raspberry Pi and that was it oh  my gosh the next thing I had to tackle was his   eye and the looping animation for his eyes  was the easiest thing for me to make I'm an   animator in my day job and I work in Adobe After  Effects all day every day so I just had to make   a design that replicated his green lenses with  solid black shapes at the top and bottom for his eyelids then I really just had some  fun creating different expressions and   blinks for him I rendered it out with the  correct size and positioning as a 30C MP4 Loop now that I had my animated MP4 I had  to replace the open GL Snake Eyes program   with an autoart Loop program in Python while  leaving the code that sends the information to   the displays and I don't know python so chat  GPT to write my code for me and it's gotten   me almost all the way there but my eyes are  playing across one monitor instead of both of   them all right I'm rebooting hopefully this  little display will update on both displays   across the whole thing let's see no nope  dang it finally got my eyes playing full   screen on my HDMI display but they're not  updating there so I'm going to reboot and see if the update no why so I just ran this code here  and it made it full screen on both   eyes but it won't play from reboot  and start up but it's looking pretty good yes oh my gosh I did it you did it I did it congratulations for his body I did a complete  overhaul and reshape I inserted his hand so   he's in backpack form and I hollowed him  out as much as possible with a cutout for   a computer fan the front door cutout the top  wide open for all of his animatronics I also   made a hefty bolt on his back with enough space  and strength to slide in a backpack Mount and   on the inside I included a little magnet flap  with magnet mounts this didn't quite work out   but I'll show you how I made it work later I  printed his body Allin one go in in my Sonic   8K resin printer and this is what it looked  like I had a couple of failures a little bit   on the back and definitely that magnet holder in  the middle everything otherwise looked fine so I   decided to go with this print because it took  a million hours to print and a lot of resin I   also printed his feet at this time side note  they don't make flexible plates for the Sonic   Mega 8K so I just have to Chisel it off the door  itself has a tongue that fits into a groove on the   body I had to adjust the door shape to account  for it rotating into place this is clearly not   fitted yet I did fix it and when I printed it  it still didn't fit so a lot of sanding was my solution slides in and will snap into  place like this on the inside of the   body my magnet holder failed so I just sanded  it down as flat as I could and I'm going to   made little magnet holders like little  boxes I'm going to glue them just like   two teeth right there there they are all glued  in and the door woke oh my God I glued it in H I realized that I needed to find a more vertical  setup for my servos that would fit inside clinks   body I found a channel called Hendrix Workshop  that focuses entirely on animatronics and this   video has a design that I felt would work much  better for Clank it's still a 3D access neck   with three servos but it's in a much more  compact configuration his files are for   full-size servos and a fulls siize head so  I had to downsize everything to start when   it scaled down from my mini servos you could  see how much more compact of a design this   is than my original instead of 3D printed  arms to control his movement I now have 2   mm threaded rods with attachable ball joint  end pieces that allow for much more fluid movement these will attach to the  servos like this this is what's   called a Cardon joint that's an  omnidirectional universal joint   and I attach this to a 3 mm threaded Rod  that supports his head and side to side movement yeah so I finally have clinks eyes ey lenses  printed I haven't put a high gloss on   them yet I'm hoping once I sand them down  get a high gloss on it they will be nice   and clear the edges are chipped because I had  one hell of a time getting it off of my print   bed and I don't have a went band plate um and  essentially had to hammer them off now that   I have these they will go in my little eye  this is just for my test it'll pop in just   like so just like that it fit nice and flat  this goes right over it and then this goes in like that and then his eye will be nice  and magnified so it looks like in My Little   test print I might need to move it down just a  little bit you can see some yellow there from   the bottom of the Monitor and a little  bit of white on the end there um maybe   I'll move the indents for the holder just like  over like 2 mm down and then like 1 mm to the outside so I sprayed some gloss lacquer on these and  they look really good they look like glass   they're also magnifying a decent amount if you  see my fingers okay let's plug it in and then   wait for it to boot up well that's a problem  but it's just a connection problem so let's do   a little troubles shooting make sure everything's  plugged in right one's actually okay left one's a   little too far over you can see the white on the  side here I'm going to cover them with black uh on   all sides so you also won't see the light at the  bottom there the yellow light or any of the white sides I made a custom base for the raspberry  pi/ Riser so I modeled the inside where it's   angled for this angled and the back is angled  and it does fit in there pretty well but I need   to find a way to Anchor this without having it  be completely permanent in case I need to take   out that Raspberry Pi what I'm going to do and  I could have modeled this if I had planned it   a little bit better is drill a hole directly  through the back of his little risers here   into the back of them here okay here we go bolt  going all the way through and it's just a little   teeny tiny bolt in the back I don't think that's  going anywhere this is my first test head you can   see I made holes for the arms and the top of the  animatronic pieces didn't fit so I just drilled   it in I need to make my own custom one so I have  this uh attached and printed in I finally printed   the last piece that I need to actually put clanks  animatronics together so this little piece goes   into the bottom of his head and it lines up with  this circle hole that'll go right there and then   it could freely move on the top there once it's  inside his head all right I've got that glued in there now here's the deal these might have some   trouble getting out of the way  hopefully it's not a problem there's a bolt on each side of the little  servo arms here I'm going to test him and   just hold him down really good to make  sure he's not too heavy and these servos   actually work if he's too heavy I'm  going to be in a lot of trouble and   I'm going to have to start back at zero  so here we go I'm going to plug this in that was terrifying all right let's do that again well the servos are holding them up  they don't appear to be straight they appear   to be way up to the side um and they're  very kind of rickety this back piece on   the neck here when I'm holding the bottom  down this is actually moving quite a bit here it's getting turned more and more so this is completely broken his servos are  strong enough at all and the entire structure just   needs to be rebuilt and stronger his head's  just too heavy I think we have to build a new one that's it for this video please like  And subscribe for the rest of this Clank   build and go see my next video to see  how I saved Clank and as usual happy crafting

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Published: Fri Feb 23 2024