Presenting Mrs Radicon the first animated Pulp Robot & 1st roboz project

[roboz]

Thanks again for the support , adding a few more pics of the internals also a pic of the original shoulder

that was mounted to the arm , that John revised by adding the shoulder mount to the body in order to have

the arms move freely 

A look at the hollow 3D bottom cone 

 

 

 

[Tinplate6]

Roboz, simply stunning! Any chance that this could become a "production" model?

 

 

[roboz]

8 minutes ago, Tinplate6 said:

Roboz, simply stunning! Any chance that this could become a "production" model?

 

 

Thanks Tinplate , well we plan to do an initial 12 , the 4th was spoken for so there's 2 left in the first run of 6 

This robot is very labor intensive & completely hand painted , hand programmed etc so it will take time 

This first run of 12 is about as cheap as it can get , after that time & John willing we may move to a handful 

with more exotic material that's appx 4x the cost of the current material 

 

[martijn]

What a great work! Fantastic to see the old robot in real!!!

is there a kid coming up also?

[roboz]

4 minutes ago, martijn said:

What a great work! Fantastic to see the old robot in real!!!

is there a kid coming up also?

I plan to figure out the kid early next year, the family has to be complete !! 

[robert]

Well done good sirs! Let me see if any of my children are willing to be sold and I will purchase one! Seriously though, the price is quite reasonable. Hope to be able to afford one soon.

[roboz]

30 minutes ago, robert said:

Well done good sirs! Let me see if any of my children are willing to be sold and I will purchase one! Seriously though, the price is quite reasonable. Hope to be able to afford one soon.

Thanks Robert , Without John & Tom this wouldn't have been possible 

Commerical CAD designers would've cost as much as the robot without the guts 

possibly more with all the internals 

[David Kirk]

The action is lovely. You've made something quite unique!

[robot polishing his rocket]

oz, now that is a very, very nice job indeed. congrats.

[Roboto]

What a fantastic looking and working Mrs Radicon. 

[nasa]

Superb Ozzie....its nice to see somoeone's  dream come to fruition      Congrats!

[roboz]

Jose , David , Mark & Roboto Thanks for the positive remarks , much appreciated 

 

So to update the list for my own sake 

 

1) John

2) Oz

3) Tom

4) Marco

5) Claus

6) Larry 

7) Klaus

8) Private Collector

 

We are in the process of tweaking the head & face so will keep everyone updated on the progress 

 

 

 

 

 

[roboz]

Quick update on the new direction of the head so as to look less alien & more traditional robotic

This has to be done by Tom since it's simpler for him to modify via his own CAD program that created the files

& he's probably jammed till the end of next week , Also we are trying the have the eye & dome holes modeled in

to eliminate drilling & obviously easier for wiring , FInally I asked Tom to try & bring the eyes just a tad closer together

so they stare a bit more staight on Though symetrically it may give the sides of the head a large view

It's a tricky balance 

 

 

 

[marco]

Balance... where have I seen that before hahahah

cool Oz, keep us posted
In the picture it looks like the eyes are cones by the way :-)

Keep up the good work and yes.. the eyes a BIT closer to each other would be better !

Cheers
Marco

[roboz]

Marco they are cone like in the illustration 

but those appear to be done for convenience to have 

her look at the radicon robot with her head askew

it worked for the illustration but was impracticle at the angle of the eyes

We went round & round on this for a while in the end I felt the round style 

better matches the rest of the gang members & she looks less insectoid

Maybe if there was a ready supply of Chief RobotMan eyes as donors

or else the cone look is hard to come by via traditional means & with the eyes anything but completely straight on placement

which is easy on a flat head , a bit tougher with curves involved As it would place them very close together 

 

Here's an example John mocked up using push pins & LED for the cone look

as you can see the more the eyes protrude the more the angle is pronounced