For week 15 we began by doing the motion tests for Tom for figuring and estimating the speeds, velocity and the acceleration for the head tilt, turn and mouth functions.Please find the video for the motion tests for the 3 Read more…
Over week 14 Alex completed assembling Tom and over the last weekend we got Tom to be moving and celebrated his birthday as he came alive on 23 April morning at 4:00 am. We were also able to set up Read more…
For week 13, we started receiving our parts for the mechanical design. Also we started receiving parts for the electrical panel. Our next step was then to prepare begin the assembly and test the animation on Tom. Alex started working Read more…
For week 12, we continued working ahead with Tom’s production. Alex worked on ordering the remaining parts for the Torso and working with our faculty Valerie Sofranko on working with the foam. She is also working on preparing and ordering Read more…
For week 10, we began by finalizing the design so that we can order the parts for Tom.Alex began to iterate and finalize the design for the head tilt and head turn including the torso function.She consulted with Tim and Read more…
Week 10 was really like an important milestone for us as we were able to build a prototype for the mouth mechanism which replicated the mouth mechanical design and also allowed us to use the 3D converter software to transfer Read more…
For Week 9, our team continued to work towards finalizing design and working on the lip sync for mouth animations.After returning from spring our goal was to iterate on the mechanical design ensuring that it is rigid and is anatomically Read more…
We have been working on our pipeline to make our animation implementation as seamless as possible. If we can discover any setbacks or kinks in our process now, we can start troubleshooting any issues that may arise. We are working Read more…
This week, getting our budget approved so we could start ordering parts was at the forefront of our priorities. We had been working for weeks weighing different options for hardware against each other to see what works best for our Read more…
This week we worked on making sure our pipeline is set up for the rest of the duration of the project. Alex continued to work with our honorary advisor Tim Eck on vetting our design. Atul and Dustin worked with Read more…