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T08A2 / R3000 spider lightweight tank (from GITS)

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Posted by PFJN on Monday, May 1, 2017 4:42 PM

Hi.

Your work is fascinating.  I have a simple 3D printer and have been trying to incorporate it into my modelbuilding in small areas, and its amazing to see how much you have been able to accomplish.

 

Pat

1st Group BuildSP

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, May 1, 2017 3:56 PM

To celebrate the new Ghost In The Shell movie, I made a video about how awesome the tank in the old one was! :) I loved how it looks so much that I built a robot from scratch and I tried to match the motions as close as I could. 

 

https://vimeo.com/212772719

 

BTW, the robot in the new movie is not as cool, calm and menacing. Although the rest of the movie visually is amazing.

 

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Posted by Paulius on Saturday, October 8, 2016 3:54 PM
@T.B.: Fair enough. I agree that recent technologies simplify some processes, but in the end nothing can replace hard work, attention to detail and a lot of patience. In a way it's easier, but at the same time it's easier for everyone, so if you want to make something outstanding you still need to invest the same amount of time as in old times.

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Posted by Tanker - Builder on Saturday, October 8, 2016 1:30 PM

Paulius;

 This makes me realize how much fun I would've had if I had been born forty years later than I was . Computer printing and knowledge . Holey Chit how dayum awesome ! ! T.B. 

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, June 6, 2016 3:03 PM

Results:

More videos, photos and info:

http://gits-tank.com

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, June 6, 2016 10:21 AM

One of the goals of the project was to make the robot move in the nice, fluid way. A lot of work went into things that can not be shown by photos - coding and preparing the moves. To make it even more fun I had to redo some electronics - the robot stopped working after just sitting idle for half a year :) Anyway during the preparations I prepared a storyboards - my final animation was supposed to resemble the original movie:

 

 

I turned my flat into mini photo studio for a couple days :)

 

 

I'm not a photographer or filmaker - using a tripod is as far as that goes :) but I decided to try using a couple of spotlights and a smokemachine :) The smokemachine turned out to be harder than I thought. You basically have to know how to use it. Having a good camera dosn't gurantee making good photos - the same for a smoke machine. Anyway, I needed it for making photos of the lasers, so it wasn't completelly waster :) Oh, and I haven't reallized that smoke from smokemachine raises straight up. You need cold smoke in order for it to sit on the ground, so I had to improvise that. 5 liter bottle filled with ice cubes served as cooler for smoke:

 

 

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Posted by Real G on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 1:31 PM

I think your chipping is fine.  Superb work there!

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

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Posted by Paulius on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 2:02 PM

Painting the robot was a lot of fun. I've done these layers:

  • Prime color
  • Shadows / light surfaces
  • Weathering details
  • Chiping
  • Rust
  • Weathering sufraces
  • Oil/dirt

I overdid the chipping, but that's what happens when you're doing it for the first time :) 

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Posted by Paulius on Thursday, December 31, 2015 10:13 AM

Happy New Year everyone! I finally found time to get this project going again - there isn't better time than a night of New Year celebration :) I hope to get a better camera soon and make a final photoshoot....

 

Here are some older picture about what happens when your 3D printer messes up your print and shifts half of a piece. Anyway, there is no thing that saw, glue and putty can't fix :))

http://pauliusliekis.tumblr.com/

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Posted by Paulius on Thursday, December 31, 2015 10:12 AM

Sprue-ce Goose
What 3D modeling software do you use? 

3DsMax. It's great for more flexible shapes. Not sure I would like to do this in SolidWorks. SolidWorks are great if you want to do more precise blueprints, because 3dsMax sucks anywhere where you want to enter dimentions or position things preciselly, but modelling such thing in SolidWorks might be too hard for me, because I'm still learning it.

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:16 PM

DANG !

Even if Spielberg doesn't call,

It might yet fit in with SkynetWink

I'm only just starting out learning Solid Works.

What 3D modeling software do you use? 

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Posted by Paulius on Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:10 PM

Thanks! I really need to find time to make the final photoshoot... I hope when the summer is over to have more time :)

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:04 PM

All I can say Paulius is HOT DARN ! ! !

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Posted by M. Brindos on Monday, April 13, 2015 8:27 PM

That's awesome! :)

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, April 13, 2015 7:09 AM

..but 3Dprint.com did a story about my robot :)

3dprint.com/.../ghost-in-the-shell-robot-tank

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, April 13, 2015 7:09 AM

@RX7850, Spielberg hasn't called so far. I'm disappointed :)

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Posted by RX7850 on Monday, March 30, 2015 8:16 PM

What the?? This thing is soo cool . I think I hear  Spielberg and Lucas Arts  calling your name. Looking forward to seeing it done.

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  • From: Tumwater, WA.
Posted by M. Brindos on Monday, March 30, 2015 8:07 PM

Extremely impressive. I can't wait to see it finished.  :D

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, March 30, 2015 5:55 PM

I finally found time to fix electronics.

Main change: I switched to power source with higher voltage (from 5V to 7.5V) - this gives more strength to the legs. One of the main problems was that it was having hard time standing on the legs after putting so much plastic on it. The robot weights ~5kg now. New and shiny power source:

Of course RaspberryPi still needs 5V, so I had to put voltage stabiliser. That leads to some energy loses, but who cares when you're not planning to use batteries and you have 26A :))

I also had to switch to shorter and thicker power cables for servos. And better plugs for those cables too. I'm glad I didn't have to pull any new cables through internals of the robot - it would be very hard to do at this point :) Although I still had to put a relay in the back and some thick cables. It doesn't look nice (when it's open), but it works! :)


I found out that servos in arms take 6V max, so I had to put another voltage stabiliser :) Any change is never as easy as it seems at first sight:)

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Posted by Paulius on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:22 AM

I found out that the old RaspberryPi (model B) is getting in a way of cables after assembling all printed parts, so I replaced it by newer model A+. Everything fits much better now:
GITS-RPiReplacement.jpg 

This is how it looked before the painting of details:
GITS-Assembled.jpg

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, February 16, 2015 5:26 AM

Some photos from older printing:

"Find 10 differences!" or "My printer misunderstood what I actually want to print (correct piece is on the left side)":


"Tail":


The part is to big to make it as a single print - the max print dimensions 20x20x20cm. It was chopped into 6 individual pieces. The printer was misbehaving again a bit, so 2 out of 6 parts had to be corrected after printing:
    

Assembled:
  

I covered the bottom piece with too much acetone, which resulted in bends...:) I had to cut it, screw to the frame, glue together and use a lot of putty afterwards :) There is still small gap between the top and bottom, so I added a screw to tighten them together after closing. The top and bottom are not glued together, since main electronics sits there and I need to service it occasionally or attach screen and keyboard when coding for it.
  

Result:

http://pauliusliekis.tumblr.com/

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Posted by Paulius on Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:02 AM

One of the most complicated parts: it's time to cover main-body to which all legs are attached:


The optimistic plan was to print it from a couple of parts:
  

Problem #1: printer shifts all layers by ~1cm sometime during printing. It still did in a different place when printing flipped part, although the problem was smaller, so I just fixed it by slicing printed part into two and gluing it together in correct place:.
    

I subdivided the remaining parts into smaller parts before printing in order to avoid same problems during print:


Problem #2: I could not assemble robot using these parts - there was no way to fit sphere in the middle through other parts once everything is assembled. I had to cut it into smaller pieces and attach these parts separately.


Problem #3: first design mistakes: my virtual project had no screws, so when I tried to fit to and bottom part they didn't fit where they belong (see the photo above), so there was a gap of 1cm between them. The main structure of the robot was done by hand without very precise engineering, so gaps between printed parts and servos were uneven. So even if I fixed design problem with the screws there was no I way to fix all gaps. I had to fallback to plan B: use of polystyrene and macroflex :) To make matters more fun I had to fit wires for 19 servos and plus a bunch of other wires :)
              

More shaping, macroflex, shaping, making surface stronger using PVA glue, polishing, glue, polishing, putty, polishing, putty, polishing:
    

Painting and result:
  

http://pauliusliekis.tumblr.com/

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Posted by M. Brindos on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 8:19 PM

This is just amazing. Superior modelling.  :)

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

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Posted by artworks2 on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 8:50 AM

3d art is becoming popular again rapid prototyping has come a long ways. Nice expose in picture...

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, February 2, 2015 1:34 PM

A little bit more of progress on the legs:




3D printing:
      


Polishing (i.e. reducing visibility of 3D printing slices by sand paper and acetone; acetone also gives strength):
  


Assembling:
        


Puttying (is that a word? :)) (hiding marks of 3D printing even further):
  


Painting:
              


Result:


"Suspension" of toes:


I hope to finish main body and the I'll be able to attach the legs. I hope that everying will work once cables are connected (fingers crossed :)) Otherwise I'll have to disassmeble (read: break) and redo some parts :)) The original plan was to have ability to disassemblable, but that was too complicated, so  I skipped that part :)

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Posted by Paulius on Monday, February 2, 2015 3:48 AM

There are still people who do animatronics, i.e. mechanic/electronic dolls/characters for movies:) Although I'm not one of them :)

I actually hope that this kind of modelling is on the rise, because of the progress in electronics and battery technology. It is cheaper to build robots, quadcopters and all sorts of other machines now than ever. Finding electronics is easy: RaspberryPI, Adruino and other more customized boards are available. So yeah I hope to see more of this :)

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Posted by M. Brindos on Saturday, January 31, 2015 7:50 PM

WOW. O.O

I didn't know that there were still people out there that could still do this type of modelling. I don't have the vocabulary for how awesome this is.

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

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Posted by Paulius on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:44 AM

A short video from testing of arms:

http://pauliusliekis.tumblr.com/

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:08 AM

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