This week on Maker Update:
A face-detecting, shoulder robot friend,
Victorian dress, a noisy cricket, R2-Junior,
Wearable Gundam, walking with Wall-E, and a glove from 3D printed fabric.
Hey I'm Donald Bell, And welcome back to another Maker Update.
Hope you're all doing well.
I've got a very special episode this week.
I am at the 2022 Sili-Con here in San Jose, California,
and it's my first time at this event and I'm very excited to check it out
and hopefully run into a few makers and see what they brought to the show.
So let's go check it out.
I'm Odd Jay, your new favorite oddity.
I am a robot maker and now a content creator for Digi-Key.
And currently I have with me is my FRR robot, facial recognition robot F-R-R.
And I also have with me my other robot Orbit
is really huge Wall-E esque robot that's currently just looking around
because these halls are crowded and I'm scared for him to be kicked.
So both of these are using facial recognition.
So using the openMV and the
Mitchell Servo Controller to do facial recognition.
And we have this in the blog, it's coming up pretty soon.
So it's going to be amazing 100%.
I just love it.
I've been working on Orbit for about a few weeks.
It's pretty great.
Like he does a lot of stuff, but right now he just drives around.
He has a cool like LED system in there that lights up
and that was the really fun design.
It's just been 100% love with this robot.
I do plan to improve them because they got some damage from shipping.
But you know, it's fine if it breaks,
It means we have room for improvement. And I stand by that.
You can follow me on my Instagram @odd_jay and my Twitter.
Everything I do is open source.
So even if it has to come out right away, just give me some time I got
to type it up and make it pretty for you.
And it will also be published on Digi-Key and Maker.io
My name is Alison and I
come here to this event for San Jose in 2022
as the Winchester House.
Sarah Winchester died on September 5th, 1922.
So it's almost the hundredth anniversary of her death.
And it's just I visited the house a couple of times.
It's just really beautiful.
It has such beautiful, stained glass and woodwork and and everything.
And I just couldn't get all of it, of course, because it's a big house, but
just put as many details of the costume... of the house into the costume as I could.
Well, all of the designs of the stained glass
are taken directly from windows in the house.
So if you tour the house, this is one of the windows
that they show you in Sarah's collection of stained glass,
because she has one of the best collections of stained glass in the world.
So this is one of those windows
I, I learned to
solder actually to make this costume.
So I bought these little light panels from Adafruit.
They're about that big.
They're not very big.
And I put those together into the panels
and then some layers to diffuse in between.
And then the Plexiglas or acrylic painted with the design
fabric, foam, cardboard, a little bit of wire work, beads, buttons,
just whatever I could think of that would give me the look that I wanted.
Hello, My name is Bill Doran.
I'm a prop and costume maker from Seattle, Washington.
My wife and I run a company called Punish Props Academy.
We teach people how to make props and costumes on our YouTube channel.
We also have a series of books on making things out of EVA foam.
And here at Sili-Con, we brought a bunch of that stuff.
I also brought my Ghostbusters outfit very, very in season right now,
I got the proton pack back there and a bunch of other really neat stuff
that we've made from video games and movies and from a variety of materials
like found objects or foam, or even this right
here, this highlander light saber.
The handle was cast from a screen used mold from Highlander 2.
So we make lots of stuff and we like to expand
our creativity and skill set.
And that's on display right here.
Lots of different techniques
to make all the cool stuff that we wish we had when we were kids.
The newest item
is this little fellow right here, the Noisy Cricket from Men in Black,
and this one was 3D Modeled in Fusion 360,
printed on a resin based 3D printer with a lot of high detail
and then painted with an all clad chrome paint to give it
that lovely shine.
I'm Jonathan and I brought a R2 series custom built droid.
Yeah, and the color scheme for this droid
is something my wife actually bought me from Disneyland.
It's a little droid about this big and I just made him bigger.
And yeah, he's fully 3D printed
glue and hot glue and there's a little bit of,
you know, wood help stabilize some of the parts but yeah
it's completely home built so he's he 75% scale
and this was actually in the end of February
I wanted to build a master mech, but I thought, well, if I go smaller,
it will be easier because, you know, you know, it's smaller is easier, right?
Right?
The common misconceptions, but it ends up being more complicated
because I had to buy specific sized parts
to make the wheels work or make the dome work.
And I end up spending probably about as much time as it was on
the printer, redesigning certain parts to fit motors and other things like that.
So yeah, it was a lot harder than I anticipated, you know.
But he did get built in eight and a half weeks, so from start to finish
he rolled out on the celebration floor in eight weeks.
So this is called
the Padawan shadow.
So it's a PlayStation 3 controller that control his dome,
his forward movement.
And eventually, when I get the servo board fully built out,
it'll open all the doors and his arms and all that as well.
So and then there's the expandability of adding a second controller,
if I want to, to do more things like sounds
and whatnot as well.
Hello, my name is Odin.
I have a YouTube channel called Odin Makes where I make cosplay props.
Specifically, I'm showing you how to make cosplay props.
So behind me are all my different projects and I'll show you step by step
how to cut the foam, glue the foam, paint the foam,
and you end up with any one of these objects when when you're finished.
So not just single videos.
I also do full playlists where I make full size costumes.
So this is the RX-78 Gundam.
This is the old school, 1979 Gundam.
It took the better part of a year to do the whole costume from head to toe.
And it's a series of, I think, 12 different videos covering
the different parts, including The Shield Blaster and Beam Saber.
So the costume is very lightweight because it's made primarily out of EVA foam,
which is basically floor mat foam, that puzzle foam that you walk on,
but it's using thinner materials, thinner versions of that same foam.
So the whole costume weighs about 30 lbs.
It was glued together with contact cement and painted with acrylic paints
so a person can get inside of this.
He can see and walk around.
Matt Hobbs from here in L.A.
background is Aerospace Engineer.
We just finished up work on the James Webb Space Telescope, so I help manage
the build of the sun shields when I was in Huntsville, Alabama,
and then we came out here for Final integration.
This build was around a year long.
We had a challenge at DragonCon.
They were like, You can't build one in a year.
And we were like, okay, yeah, we'll take that.
So we had him at the next year's DragonCon, so it was pretty amazing.
Before this was we started with BB-8.
It was like the first thing
when I was at a celebration and he actually rolled out on the stage
and I was like, okay, that's, that's a really cool bit of engineering.
So we took that as a challenge, you know, and we now have it.
We've got the one here and we've now been working on this one
around three years and have it up and running
as far as servos, I think there's 18 particular different ones in him.
They're mostly HITEC
and then there's
a couple of actuators in there that we use from Actobotics.
And then the control system is a custom system
built by myself and Stephan that's called the Kyber control system.
So if you want to check that out, it offers the ability to use
maestros to do your motion control and then be able to control your sounds.
And it's all a web based interface so that you can easily set up
like your R2's or Wall-E's to control them.
It's basically creating macros, so we created the software
it uses, Arduino uses, ESP32, you know, as its control
and then we programed it to interface with -
We basically took one of the potentiometer switches
and broke it apart into a bank of 15 buttons with just resistors.
So then when we see that resistor value on the ESP,
we know we're asking it to do something on button one.
So we created a user interface to be able to log into their web page,
because it's Wi-Fi capable
and then you can actually say button one needs to play sound one
and activate motions five and six on two different maestros
that we can control.
Hello, I'm Sophy Wong.
I brought my 3D printed
sci fi space glove and it's 3D printed on fabric.
It's got PLA at the bottom, it's got flexible TPU at the top,
and it's got these LED tiny LED strands.
These are silicone coated LED strands they run off of
the three volt batteries are very easy to put into any project.
I'm running mine
off of the coin cell battery right now and no programing required at all.
Nice and bright. I love these things.
So this is built on a purchased leather glove and then the black parts
on the fingers are a 3D printed TPU that I glued on to the fingers.
And then this outer glove is something that I sewed together
just to fit over the the fingers of the glove.
And that's all covered in the 3D printed fabric.
So this is a headpiece that I made with the 3D printing on fabric technique,
and it's printed in MatterHackers quantum PLA.
So it's that two color di-chromatic
PLA that sort of
changes color depending on what angle you're looking at it.
And this is sort of inspired by like Cher
style headpiece
or like maybe a wig
or a soft helmet, but it's basically the same technique of 3D printing on fabric.
And I just wanted to see
if I could wrap it around the head, which is a challenging part of the body,
and then give it a little bit of movement down at the ear, sort of ear cover area.
This is actually the project
that we're going to be building in my cyberpunk headset workshop tomorrow.
This is a headset that is built on a pair of snowboarding goggles
and all of the pieces on it are laser cut foam,
EVA Foam, a cosplay staple.
And then we've got some
LED light
panels in the sides just to give it that real like cyberpunk looking vibe
and I've painted mine so everyone will be able to paint
and customize their headset, their finished headset any way they want
to, to kind of just make it reflect their personal style.
But this is my take on a cyberpunk headset.
The first cyberpunk headset kind of thing that I built is over
in the Maker Museum area, and it's a much simpler sort of ear shape
and it's just got a little bit of light across the front.
So yeah, this is really developed.
I really love building on top of existing purchased objects, found objects
and just trying to transform them into something
out of my own imagination.
Allright, and that does it for this week's show.
And I had a great time here at Sili-Con.
Looking forward to coming back again next year.
I hope you enjoy the show as always.
Big thanks to Digi-Key electronics for making this whole thing possible.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon.