Hello all!
A while ago, I made an electronic conversion of a resin kit by Chaucer44 from Goldenarmor of a VK kit. I actually made two...
Here's the final version:
I ended up redesigning the entire arm and eye mechanism in CAD, based on some measurements from the great resin kit for scale, but used screen grabs for making the eye piece and servo holder for the eye as screen accurate as possible. These were also carved out for particular servos to be installed. It took me months to find some of the parts I used for this build.
The LED's are controlled by two arduino boards and the arm/LED mechanism is controlled by a polulu Maestro 6. It isn't perfect, but it was a good start.
Now, I've started a whole new project on this wonderful machine. The old version was a simple "light up of static image" in the monitors, but I have managed to find modern monitors that are close enough in size that I can do what I always wanted to make in the first place:
A fully electronic version, which includes even the monitors and their animations.
I've played around with doing some animation and keyframe thingiemajiggies in Final Cut and here is where I'm at with the videos at the moment:
In order to make this happen, I've been drawing the machine from scratch in CAD based on drawings and screen grabs from the movie, and I'm approaching a place where I can actually start building this.
The three monitors will be controlled by three separate Raspberry Pi Zero's with heavily modified OS and splash screens (added them to the video) in order to play the videos as soon as possible.
The main functionality will be controlled either by one of the rpi's, or possibly an arduino, more so because I am much more comfortable programming the arduino than the pi.
Some of the servos used will be replaced by other servos that have less jitter to begin with. They will also have some capacitors on the power lin in order to make movement as smooth as possible
I'm also looking in to making the bellows out of wet formed leather, and the machine itself will most likely be 3d printed with connectors for all parts that go on it and screens and electronics already in place.
If anyone has access to any pictures of the screen used prop (As far as i know, there was only one, and it was built over the weekend by one of the prop guys), please let me know.
I might assemble some sort of kit for a fully electronic version in the future if there's interest for it.
A while ago, I made an electronic conversion of a resin kit by Chaucer44 from Goldenarmor of a VK kit. I actually made two...
Here's the final version:
I ended up redesigning the entire arm and eye mechanism in CAD, based on some measurements from the great resin kit for scale, but used screen grabs for making the eye piece and servo holder for the eye as screen accurate as possible. These were also carved out for particular servos to be installed. It took me months to find some of the parts I used for this build.
The LED's are controlled by two arduino boards and the arm/LED mechanism is controlled by a polulu Maestro 6. It isn't perfect, but it was a good start.
Now, I've started a whole new project on this wonderful machine. The old version was a simple "light up of static image" in the monitors, but I have managed to find modern monitors that are close enough in size that I can do what I always wanted to make in the first place:
A fully electronic version, which includes even the monitors and their animations.
I've played around with doing some animation and keyframe thingiemajiggies in Final Cut and here is where I'm at with the videos at the moment:
In order to make this happen, I've been drawing the machine from scratch in CAD based on drawings and screen grabs from the movie, and I'm approaching a place where I can actually start building this.
The three monitors will be controlled by three separate Raspberry Pi Zero's with heavily modified OS and splash screens (added them to the video) in order to play the videos as soon as possible.
The main functionality will be controlled either by one of the rpi's, or possibly an arduino, more so because I am much more comfortable programming the arduino than the pi.
Some of the servos used will be replaced by other servos that have less jitter to begin with. They will also have some capacitors on the power lin in order to make movement as smooth as possible
I'm also looking in to making the bellows out of wet formed leather, and the machine itself will most likely be 3d printed with connectors for all parts that go on it and screens and electronics already in place.
If anyone has access to any pictures of the screen used prop (As far as i know, there was only one, and it was built over the weekend by one of the prop guys), please let me know.
I might assemble some sort of kit for a fully electronic version in the future if there's interest for it.
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