Porygon V2 - but not the evolution of Porygon

Description

After two hours of trying to import and fix the STLs from Mr. @Benchoffs I'm now pretty sure I designed it all by myself. Well no. I didn't. But now that I have everything in 123D Design, I can start hollowing out the parts and add some LEDs and servos to make it move around and spit out those funky 12Hz red and blue LED pulses, that made 635 kids puke and almost stop the show. My inner continuity guy tells me to tell you that it actually was Pikachus fault, he made those rockets go bang and then the screen flickered. But nevermind. LED eyes it is. and servo legs.

This might be a Sci-Fi Contest worthy entry, hope le benchoff doesn't mind.

Details

By the way, Benchoff did a great job with the model, he also gives a printable version and stuff - but putting the parts into 123D Design was a pain, because the head and body parts have overlapping lines. I fixed that by "splitting" the mesh in meshmixer, removed one of two given objects (they were identical, but on the same spot - weird) and I might have pressed "autorepair" afterwards. Then I got something really low-poly, instead of the "make solid" buttons, that gave me objects with 200000 rectangles ... wuah.

Mad props to: #The Original Low-Poly Pokemon

Files

LICENSE.txt

plain - 1.04 kB - 03/05/2017 at 20:40

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Screenshot 2017-03-05 15.05.29.png

FRITZING

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - 283.01 kB - 03/05/2017 at 14:06

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porygon.ino

ino - 2.49 kB - 03/05/2017 at 14:05

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PORYGON_servo_horn.123dx

latest Design file

123dx - 664.32 kB - 03/05/2017 at 13:43

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FOOT_RIGHT.stl

PRINT BLUE

Standard Tesselated Geometry - 1.12 MB - 03/05/2017 at 13:43

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Project Logs

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I took no pictures, so here is a horrible fritzing "schematic"
davedarko • 03/05/2017 at 14:09 • 0 comments

The walking puppy Sketch for the Arduino is in the file section, as is this picture and the latest, unprinted revision of 3D files. There is still no glue and the perfect version would have to have a 2 part head section and screws on the body. Take a bigger battery though, something like >160mAh?
Needs another revision or two
davedarko • 03/04/2017 at 02:06 • 7 comments
This will be enough to work with
davedarko • 03/03/2017 at 18:46 • 0 comments
dual sided power rail thing
davedarko • 03/03/2017 at 15:48 • 0 comments

inspired by Game Boy Pi Zero hackers and the pure need to solder man servos to ground and vcc...
legs and tail have servo horn mountings
davedarko • 02/26/2017 at 20:03 • 0 comments

off to the printer ... so many great projects in the contest and I want that oscilloscope - but I can probably forget about that already :D head is another topic, soonish, we're all on a deadline.
head hollowed out, eyes prepared for flux leds
davedarko • 02/16/2017 at 08:51 • 0 comments
spend more time with the model
davedarko • 02/15/2017 at 11:15 • 0 comments
The cavity should be big enough for the electronics. I cut off a bit of the tail. first body print was pretty good. I had to make some adjustments for the servo cables.
I still need to:
- hollow out the head
- add every servo horn mounting
- find out if it actually moves and decide whether to hack the servos to continuos mode
- give credit to Benchoff in model
- salvage servos from somewhere ?Tote ?JohnnyIV until ordered ones arrive
skeleton work
davedarko • 02/13/2017 at 21:55 • 0 comments

I've done some 3D sketching, servos are the classic SG90 servos, I still need to fit LEDs, an Arduino/ESP and a battery pack in there.