Have you heard of Sugru? Have you heard of Oogoo? They are flexible silicon modeling substances. I undestand people use it to make flexible skins. I recently received some as a prize, but haven’t tried it.
I ask to see if you are familiar with it, because Instructables.com has how to make an inexpensive substitute with household silicon sealer, corn starch and mineral spirits. The material appears to be very flexible and I thought you may be able to use it. Here is a link for How to make Oogoo, a Sugru substitute. Look at this instructable for ideas: Fun with Oogoo
hi, i have heard of Oogoo. i have never tried it but i do remember looking into this compound when i started the R&D.
thanks for the links there. will be very handy.
Been in contact with a TV researcher whom is looking to record a pilot for the discovery channel, and whom showed an interest in my hawk project.
*The show is entitled “Masters of Invention†and the intention is to find Britain’s next inventors and make an entertaining show revealing ingenuity within Britain and outside the UK once the show has been commissioned .
The concept of the show is to bring together inventors from many different backgrounds and take them to a suitable location to try out each other’s creations. Once having tried all the inventions the inventors will then rate each creation based on their various attributes ingenuity, originality, usefulness. The winner will receive a cash prize of £5000.
As of yet they still need to get the pilot signed off which will start filming on the September 12th. When Discovery have accepted it they will start to film the series. *
I started thinking about this and as im not an inventor, nor have i invented anything original, useful or ingenious, i began to think… would i qualify for the series?
iv been pondering over this for a while now, but…
This morning i was contacted by an Assistant Leader and Associate Professor biologist that works with birds of prey, and would like to discuss a useful application of such an item for wildlife research purposes.
*Bingo, thats the “Usefulness” part out the way. i am yet to receive an email reply from him to find out what he wishes to discuss. *
ill update you on this if such an email comes in.
Anyway, the reason i’m posting is to see if anyone would be interested in applying for the show.
If you have any projects that you think may be suitable for the show, feel free to email the researcher at
richard.ainsworth @ blinkfilmsuk.com
JIM, I understand that the 3d model CAD files are provided to aid in building virtual models of robotic assemblies.
And no permission is given to anyone to manufacture these components for commercial sale or personal use and Lynxmotion is the sole source for distribution of these files 'but I need to ask you 'can the SES parts themselves be used with a commercial product?
here is one example of the brackets used in a commercial product.
Robotic Arm Feeding System
Richardson Products Inc. is using our robotic arms as a base for their “Meal Buddy”, a system to feed those who cannot feed themselves. Very cool! richardsonproducts.com/mealbuddy.html
I’m working on a similar application to this project for a Raptor foundation in Texas.
id like to offer the units control (not PS2, not DIY, not PC serialRC) but with an RC transmitter.
botboard/Atom may also be discarded and replaced with an RC receiver.
this would be an easy conversion but how would i be able to ensure the servo movements will be controlled in a similar manor to this hawk.
At the moment the servos move when the sticks are moved but stop and hold position when stick is returned to centred. i dont want the servo’s to return to centre with the sticks. can i do this with an RC transmitter? my assumption is the servos will return to centre when sticks are centred.
You can change the gimbals to no longer self center when released.
You could use an unused channel (channel 5) usually goes to a switch, then on the bird end if the switch is in one position follow the joysticks, but if in the other position hold it’s current position. This would require a micro on the receiver end.
The new 2.4ghz radios do not make use of the extra channels in the way you might think. The first thing they do to confuse you is they don’t talk about channel numbers, they talk about Throttle, Ailerons, Elevator and Rudder. Those four take up the only analog channels. For example the Spektrum radios DX5 is a 5 channel radio, 4 proportional joysticks and a 33%/66% switch for channel 5 called Gear (landing gear). You can connect a servo to this channel and switch the position from approximately -40 to +40 degrees. Their DX6 also has channel 5 on a switch called Gear and channel 6 on a switch called Flaps. They did not wire up resistors to the switches and provide analog inputs for them. No… that would be hackable! The switches are connected to digital inputs.
Hitec still makes the Laser 6 at least for now, and it actually has 6 analog inputs. But it’s old 75mhz technology… Hope this helps.
Ooops The micro on the receiver end would be needed to read the signals and either pass on or hold the position pulses.
This would be a very interesting neighbourhood! And i totally agree. Our community is here in “cyber space” but i have promised myself that i will one day meet “most of you” in person… …i do remember i owe Jim a handshake from last year. This will happen!
Anyway, thanks guys.
My supplier has stopped selling the Silicone rubber i use for moulding!!! Ahhh!
They don’t have a substitute but i have found a new supplier and i have some samples arriving this week.
