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Re: Johnny five IS alive - first MOC
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha
Date: 
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:01:27 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Eric Sophie wrote:
In lugnet.robotics, Stefan Naepflin wrote:
hello all

After a long building time (uncounted houres during one and a half year) I
finally assembled my Johnny Five robot the first time.

This is wonderful! Thank you for building the Famous Robot!

Thanks for your feedback. I'm glad to hear this from you..


One year and a half!? I respect your dedication!




This was a great feeling looking to the robot and I will share this with you.I
found a lot of inspiration on Lugnet and Bricklink.

That is a great feeling. Now we can see your completed work and imagine the time
and effort it must have taken you. Congradulations!

J5 is made of 8 modules and his total weight is about 13 kg. I think its a large
style model :-) It uses a number of motors and gears:

- 5 in each arm (shoulder, upper arm, ellbow, wrist, hand)
- 3 for the head (turn, two pistons)
- 2 for the treads
- 1 for the upper body

Yes Modules! Great Construction and interesting solutions. Nice parts!

It was my intension to build J5 as close as possible to the "real" J5
(http://www.johnny-five.com).

My special thank is going to Eric Sophie and Rosco. Eric's JAMA gave me the
"kick" to start buildung J5 using LEGO and learnd me a lot of construction
technics.

Your very welcome, and thank you. Tell us, what was your experience in learning
to build the hands? Very nice how you learned from the pictures and using the
parts to create the movement.

First I built the hands as a copy from the Jama pics. So I could easily see and
understand how the really works. They bending mechanism was cool but for johnnys
hand it was not enough integrated. During several cycles of desining, trying I
found a way to integrate the bending mechanism.
Maybe I'll try an "extended" version using a "self adapting" mechanism..


Also, what are your thoughts about the center section? The torso has many
techniques to compose the structure. What was it like for you to build this
section?

I knew, this section has to be the stronges of the whole model. I tryed to build
a strong center construction and using a kind of "shelf" to construct the outer
shape.

To keep the shoulder section always in horizintal position the section hast to
be a parallelogram.



And Rosco showed me the idea for the treads with his MOC CC2800.

J5 is not almost finished now. There are a ot of little things waiting to be set
up right. I also have to wire the electrics and learn to programm RCX.

They treads area nice design, and yes smaller width (2x) will roll better.
(as already mentioned)

I think I have to order about 100 plates 2 x 12 from bricklink.. :-) because
treads are 125 studs long, each.


I also have to re-construct the joint for the upper body, It is to weak to hold
the whole weight of the body, arms and head.

Can I help? What kind of set up are you using? I looked at the pictures.
I know of a few ways that might help.


Instead of actuating the rotation point I think about to build a strong
"electric piston". The pisten will then be connected diagonally withn the torso
like this:

   HHHHH
    I
    o----o
    I\   I
    I \  I
    I  \ I
    X----o
   B
  B
B

If the piston will change its length, the parallelogram will move. At the point
"X" there will be the connection to the lower body ("B").


So the challange is to construct a compact but (very) strong elecric piston..

At the moment I don't see an other way.. (this is like they did it also in the
real J5 construction)



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The pics are located on brickshelf
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=72836


(hope my english is not to bad..)


greetings from switzerland

Steven

Great job! Thank you!

Eric Sophie


Steven



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(...) This is wonderful! Thank you for building the Famous Robot! One year and a half!? I respect your dedication! (...) That is a great feeling. Now we can see your completed work and imagine the time and effort it must have taken you. (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build.mecha)

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