Build Log: ED-209 Stop Motion Armature

Oohh, spooky! Yep, your 3-D printer is working well;) now the next installment is going to be as cool as the others!
 
Hey Chris,
Sorry mate, It's kind of crazy right now at work and it's gonna be like that until end of June. :/
I'm so glad that your printer gives you that kind of result. I've seen some more expensive ones not doing as good.
You should try the styrene material for your printer. ;)

Stephane
 
Hi All,

Here's the first ED-209 parts from the new printer:

First, I had to make SketchUp do what I wanted. I was mostly successful.


Heres' the toe pad during printing. I was pleased the printer produced the tread pattern well:


Finished and pulled straight from the printer. This is a size comparison to the Horizon kit part:








I also quickly printed the toe shroud:










This was a cool process to work through. These results validate the 3D printer as a viable tool for creating the parts I need. Stay tuned....
 
After printing the toe, I was unsatisfied with the hard, angular look. The studio model clearly had a more curved appearance. It bugged me that mine wasn't curved. So I revisited my 3D model.

Before going further, please allow me a moment to vent: To get this far in the build I researched for 1 freakin' month. I reverse engineered the armature from two freakin' b&w photos. I setup a small machine shop in my freakin' garage. I taught myself how to freakin' machine metal. Most recently, I built a freakin' 3D printer. None of this freakin' work was harder than creating these freakin' curved surfaces in freakin' SketchUp.

Thank you. I'm better now.

Here's a comparison of the old vs. new:


And here's an in-process of the shin shroud and finished toes:


If wasn't so late, I'd print the toes. But not tonight. Another update will follow in the next few days.
 
Welcome to the wonderful world of 3D modeling. FYI, Sketchup is notoriously bad at curved surfaces...
 
Outstanding progress!

I fully understand your need to vent - it's a shame you don't really have the time to get to know Blender. It can handle curves very well and spit out STL files.
 
I actually downloaded Blender last week along with an ED209 model. There's no doubt Blender is the tool to use. I exported an stl and all worked great. But the learning curve is steeper than what I want to invest. Now that I've licked the 'curve' difficulties in SketchUp, I'm hoping the remainder of the parts will be easier to construct.
 
I vaguely recall an interview about the construction of ED-209 where the builders mentioned that they incorporated subtle curves and bulges to a lot of the parts on ED because straight edges had a peculiar way of appearing concave through the camera lens.
 
This will be the new, very high, benchmark for anyone doing the ED-209, I reckon. Totally outstanding stuff.

SketchUp was what I started to learn on but I stopped practicing with it ages ago. Got Blender too but need to learn the basics again before I try using either system. I'd love to 3D design some of the projects I have in mind.
 
DEPUIS CE Que je ai trouvé après, je ai commencer à Fabriquer l'ED 209 Entièrement en aluminium

http://www.artmoviefan.net/t6114-robot-ed-209

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DEPUIS CE Que je ai trouvé après, je ai commencer à Fabriquer l'ED 209 Entièrement en aluminium

http://www.artmoviefan.net/t6114-robot-ed-209

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Hey man, welcome to the forum. Please note that the forum language is English, so please translate and repost.

And no, I am not reminding him of this because today I had to make a call to France to work out a deal with one of their largest insurance companies and I could not reach the person I was looking for because the secretary who answerd the phone did neither speak Englsh nor German :p I am reminding him of the forum language because after said incident I kick myself even more for not learning French in school ;)
 
Well to be honest what is written above is not even correct french, it looks like it has been translated with an online translator from another language. I dont understand what is written.


Hey man, welcome to the forum. Please note that the forum language is English, so please translate and repost.

And no, I am not reminding him of this because today I had to make a call to France to work out a deal with one of their largest insurance companies and I could not reach the person I was looking for because the secretary who answerd the phone did neither speak Englsh nor German :p I am reminding him of the forum language because after said incident I kick myself even more for not learning French in school ;)
 
Well to be honest what is written above is not even correct french, it looks like it has been translated with an online translator from another language. I dont understand what is written.

So it´s a double-whammy, reason-wise, to remind that noo... member to repost ;)
 
Well, seems that nainjaune is French...must've written the text with a phone or something. I'll wager a "translation": Since finding this (thread I suppose), I began building my ED-209 entirely in alumium:)
 
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