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Theo Jansen RC toy

This toy is all made of clear 6 mm acrylic that i cat with my home made CNC router.

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This project was created on 05/31/2015 and last updated 9 years ago.

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All the mechanism and the gears between the DC motors and the legs are made out of acrylic that i cut with my home made CNC router. The gears and the legs turn on M5 screws with a bit of grease. I was planning to add lights on the legs, on the body and also an encoder to control the lights according to the position of the legs but i got lazy and i did not complete this part. The mouth is driven by two geared stepper motors, one was enough but I used two. I used 433 Mhz Rc/Tx modules controlled by a PIC micro controller for the transmission of the signal with a communication protocol derived from IR TV remote. The two DC motors that move the legs are controlled proportionally by means of a joystick.

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Mike wrote 10/27/2015 at 19:07 • point

I would love the dxf.

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Est wrote 10/28/2015 at 00:20 • point

i do not know how to use github. I can send to you by email

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Stan wrote 07/01/2015 at 00:11 • point

Lovely piece of work - very Heath Robinson. If you publish the plans would like to build one with esp8266 as the 'Brains'.

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Est wrote 07/01/2015 at 11:22 • point

do you want the drawing? i can send to you a dxf  but it will be a bit messy. I am lazy to tide up.

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Est wrote 10/28/2015 at 00:21 • point

I do not know how to use github. I can send to you by email

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Gravis wrote 06/30/2015 at 11:44 • point

you didn't shoot the video right, dummy!


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Est wrote 07/01/2015 at 00:04 • point

ahahah, I got it. My excuses

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