After making the bottle-shaped iteration, I realized that it was possibly the ugliest sculpture on the planet. I decided that the more human-looking iteration was a much better direction, and I began to expand upon that one. The human looking iteration...
From Blender ..As soon as this idea popped up in my head , i had to immediately materialize it somewhere. It happens that i've been occasionally using blender for more than 10 year now and i'm familiar with a lot of its shortcut to model objects::With...
Thursday, 06/07/2023, 12:40.(I wrote this project log before copy-pasting it here) Anyway, back to DIY electric motors: I can't simply use two 10:1 reduction ratios (which would give 100:1 in total) simply because if I want to reach 30 rpm with...
Friday, 13:25, 02/12/2022 - Yes, "02/12", it took my two days to finish this Project Log since I had to rewrite it time and time again.At first I thought this was a waste of time, but after doing this, I feel like I have a better idea...
Monday 22:25, 28/11/2022 - I'm procrastinating One thing that I forgot to talk about on the previous project logs is that the structure where the entire machine sustains itself is as important as the controls, the energy source and the actuators. And...
After four months of continual silence from life getting ahead of me, I have had a chance to sit down and truly figure out what the platform will be based on (who got knocked out by me being in the quarter finals even though I resigned?). I had my original...
… or more correctly, from CAD to reality, as it is time for 3D printing! Initially, before getting my own 3D printer, I used Shapeways to print copies of some of the Robotis plastic brackets (they were hard to source online). At one point I also calculated...
Long before Marvel Comic's Iron Man movie series came out, and before Iron Man's technological concepts in the comic pages even got a veneer of plausibility, long before anime became mainstream, I watched a lot of Mecha Anime, from Robotech to Appleseed....
Firstly, the name isn't finalized. Any ideas? "NeuroBeast" is a bit lame IMHO. Secondly, a clip of the latest iteration dragging a battery pack across the demo rug:[Ingredients: Seventeen NeuroBytes v0.8 boards. Eight 9g servos. Eight 3D printed feet....
Monday, 13:38, 26/12/2022 I didn't had an idea for a Project Log 18 yet, but since I added so many off-topics on Project Log 17, my Hackaday website started to lag and I was afraid of resulting in the same problem/bug that happened in the Project...
Saturday, 15:08, 26/11/2022 - This is a bad idea. "Why a human-sized mech, and not a exoskeleton?" Well... Sigh... Because the biggest limiting factor of any exoskeleton/power-armor/exosuit is the squishy meaty "pilot" inside of it. The machine...
Sunday, 20/08/2023, 15:02 There is no way I wil be able to finish this project log in a single day or even a single week, so I will just post this here, so if someone wonders "is this project still being actively worked on?" then, they will know...
Thursday, 16:41, 15/12/202220/12/2022Sorry for the delay, for some reason my brain refused to work these last 5 days, so I didn't work that much on this project log as I wished to. 23/12/2022 For some reason, it seems like this Project log is so...
It happens that I wrote so much on the first Project Log 74: Tech Tree for Mechs¹. that the hackaday Website started deleting older text. :| I contacted the Hackaday email asking if it was possible to check older edits so I can...
This week on The Hacklet we're featuring some of the best keyboard hacks from Hackaday.io!Hackers are really into their keyboards. Everyone has a favorite, and those favorites vary wildly. Mechanical, soft touch, ergonomic, QWERTY, DVORAK, chorded, you...