What a nice servo casing… The bird is not so bad too… 
I will make test with colored epoxy for that…
You will just leave it under ?
The orange acrylic i used worked very well. Yes this one is not for me so i don’t really want my name all over it. 
Although saying that i think he may cover the cylinder so it looks like a tree stump. That’s the first idea anyway.
Looks great Jonny! Very professional made, congratz! Looking forward to see it move.
I assume that you are going to sell them?
You want one…?
I don’t plan to sell them as a kit but iv been encouraged to make them on a commission bases for people who want or require one.
Its function or purpose is outlined here:
innerbreed.co.uk/Animatronic-Birds.html
I have a deal with a local taxidermist for the first two units.
I have also been contacted by a few pest control company’s.
My hawk i built previously is being shipped of to Miami in November for a production of a short film.
So that has opened a window for me to also make these for the film industry… Maybe.
Thanks for your comments.
Do I hear Hollywood calling? :mrgreen:
No unfortunately its only a low budget short film. Took me 10mins to read the script. Lol
the story calls for a hawk that talks to a young boy. That’s all im allowed to say.
Been doing pilot runs to get a good look at how well it can sync the script.
As far as Im aware they still wish to use it.
Well congrats all the same. I’m sure you’ll make it big very soon! :mrgreen: 8)
First Run…
HaHa… you took some time finaly… 
Wow… simply amazing…
Even for a first run it’s very nice.
Ill start playing with the arduino later when i get back home. Ill run a few more RC tests first though.
TEST PART 2!
Great work! Love the movement.
Should get lots of attention!
Kurt
Holy Crap man. That looks awesome.
How well is a dimension held on those 3d printed parts. Did you have yours ‘polished’? I’ve got a part that would be too much hassle to cast and I’m looking at using shapeways.
The head does move very nicely…
Now we have to do some Arduino Programming to have sequence… !!
“Kurte” any info for that… lol
Thanks guys,
Still yet waiting for the new head and eyelid mech but its getting there.
Marcham:
the parts not not polished. the reason i didnt go for polished is that i found it can shrink the parts slightly. and on the ball joints that wouldnt be good.
the parts are pretty exact to the dimensions i put in. cannot fault Shapeways one bit.
not sure that polished is a porous as “non polished”.
I dyed the pull cases my self to save cost.
So what’s the big deal? Bet it still tastes like chicken! 
Having it born out of one of Zenta’s MorphHexes, now that would be a big deal.
I am assuming that you will still be using an SSC-32 to control the servos? If so it makes life much easier to do sequences as storing sequences on the Arduino you can take a couple of different approaches.
- Try to store to EEPROM on Arduno, but this has issues:
a) Very small EEPROM on the Atmega chip (1K for 328s and 4K on megas) and by default it is erased each time you program the chip.
b) You need code to do this… I do have some VB code and code like this that I used to store sequences on Arc32 and other…
c) You need custom code to run the sequence. I have code for other platforms that does this. - Store the sequences in code. Other platform saves sequences to header file that you compile in. Again issues.
a) Limited code space. On Atmega328, maybe 30K
b) Need the code to do this. I do for other hex…
Now assuming you have SSC-32, you need to generate the sequences (I am not much help here 
), and download them to SSC-32 using the standard ways you have done it in the past. Then you need code to run the sequences, which can be very simple, just simply output the string to run the sequence once. Or our later hexapod code allowed you to control the speed and direction the sequence ran, by using input from the Ps2 or DIY controller… I recently added this support to the Arduino Hexapods. I believe all of this code is up on my GITHUB sources and/or in the Zip file I uploaded as part of the refactoring…
Probably a bit longer of an answer than you were asking for
Kurt