Futurama Bender #2 | Building the Body & Arms | James Bruton
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- I'm building Futurama Bender's head & body on my RobotX project so that Bender can walk along. Bender's arms are animatronic and 3D printed with Arduino based electronics. I hope you enjoy Futurama Bender part 2 Check out my RobotX series for more of the mechanics and electronics.
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I actually think the arm movement is fairly accurate for Bender as is. His arms don't have any real joints. They're more like noodles that can bend at any point. I think this creates that illusion fairly well.
I can't tell you how much I am loving this bender robot, it is turning out so well! I have one worry though, you haven't mentioned adding an antenna to him yet and bender needs his antenna! Keep up the amazing work!
Love to hear it, keep up the great work!
I think you're fine with the arms, bender essentially can bend them wherever he wants to. Its definitely cool!
I was waiting for a Bender pun when you said "bend" like 20 times in couple of minutes.
Nope. Not even once in the entire video.
first R2D2. Then BB8 and Wall-E. ladies and gentlemen, we are now seeing the beginnings of the Bender Builders club.
Epic! I love this build.
Every time i watch your videos i get an idea for mine. Thank You.
thanks for making Bender your projects are EPIC!
Always a great thing to come home from work to!
always remind me to never doubt your thinking, it always ends up amazing!
Have you thought of using dryer hose for the sleeves?
Bender seems to lend himself to that.
Cheers from a fellow Astromech and BB8 builder!
Next it's got to be Robbie from Forbidden Planet, think of the hours of fun you'll have designing and building the mechanisms in his head. :)
This is one of my favorite projects. I love it!
The arms work much better than I thought they would and are so much better than the three or four string approach as you can have different joints easily, well done! I'm really enjoying this build
Awesome work! Don't forget his antenna, he'd be lost without 'little bender'
It looks likes the only thing you need to do to fix the arm is to move the elbo servo to the other side of the black disk. That would give one more section of movement to the lower arm, and move the elbo further up. Great work though, it looks awesome.
I love seeing the progress on your Robots !
Your video's are really fun to watch
Fabric for the arm covering? I figured you'd use some sort of flexible construction tubing, like dust extraction tubing. That has the robot-like ridges on it.
this channel is so amazing. I have been watching ever since the beginning of the hulk buster build and still love it. keep up the great work!
Great work James. Don't forget, bender needs a shiny metal a@#
Hey James brilliant work!! Please make the antenna though....according to episode 3 season 1, bender looses all self esteem with out it!!! Lol keep up the great work!!!
That's so sick!
Please just don't forget about his antenna, he is not a full robot without it. Ideally make it with a small jammer built in.
Anyway, great advance, he is really starting to take a shape. I like your approach for the arms - simple yet effective.
I've been wondering since the Bender build started how the hell he was going to do the noodley tube arm. I figured it was impossible and he'd have to go with heat-bent pool noodles or something. This servo driven segment design is just amazing. Well done James. Holy heck.
I guess you could go as far as putting an individually assigned servo in each segment if you wanted to go all-out and use a high-torque motor to rotate the arm where it meets the body. Either way, this bent nylon segmented servo design is just fantastic. I don't think I would ever have thought of doing it that way. Colour me impressed.
I believe Bender's arms should be a bit longer as from reference the arms look to be 1/3 of the way down the legs.
I know this will probably cost you in time to create longer arms but it's just a suggestion.
Loving the build as a whole.
Really coming along now - looks fantastic so far
That's a pretty smart way of doing the arms.
Great stuff James. Inspired by your creativity mate!!
These cosmetics are looking amazing
The chassis turned out great.
the arms animate wonderfully! great job James!
i like this project very much :)
That's starting to look awesome!
I'm really excited about robot X's upgrade. I think his arms are fine though. Once you put the hands on, the forearm will probably appear lengthy enough to make the elbow seem right.
this is great! building a T-1000 is going be awesome
He's looking great!
Perhaps (if it wouldn't be adding too much complexity) try adding rotation to the shoulder hubs so the arms would get an extra DOF (anywhere within a 170° radius)? That would be extra cool. And then Bender could point to his own arse - like someone here mentioned earlier. You probably wouldn't be able to get away with just a standard servo (perhaps a heavy-duty one, but then there's cost), the alternative would be using a DC motor with a gearbox attached (like those drill ones you've used in the leg joints) for added torque.
I just thought of another cover for Robot X. The short size of the legs compared to the average human reminded me an awful lot of those of Baymax from Big Hero 6
I was gonna suggest making a skin that look like the robot from the film Saturn 3, but I just realized what a beast of build that would be, after seeing some old pictures of it again...
Excellent work James, cant't wait for episode #3 when his ass plate is back from the chrome-platers.
Super cool, love all your projects
For the sleeves you could make a ring chain like those found in bendable lamp posts.
can't wait to see the shape of the remote control xD
it looks awesome really well done!
He still needs the Antenna!
wow great idea for the arms
Perfect! I'd like to see it live :-)
Could you make johnny number 5 from short circuit.
he has tracks tho
nice
He's actually doing that, He just hasn't finished it.
Exactly my thoughts.
I built a working johnny 5 in 2004.www.robothut.robotnut.com/rj5p1.html and a video in my robothut you tube channel.
Looking great! Don't forget his antenna :D
looking soo good
Very nice James!
All the foam body panels are great...but what about his "shiny metal ass"? Great project! Can't wait to see more!
Robby the Robot from The Forbidden Planet and many 50s scifi movies thereafter would be awesome
YOU ARE AWSOME!
hugs from argentina!
This is an incredible channel!!!!!:)
Great James
looking good
Increíble! Que imaginación!, me encantan tus vídeos.
Nice when you speed up sections of the build!
print a black triangle as a goatee and now you have Flexo, print Roberto's head and a knife too,
Ok here's one for you and if you can pull it off I will be falling out of my chair.?...a b9 from lost in space..love this build thanks Simon
VOLTRON!!!!!
Great work so far James, I can't wait to see it finished ! A suggestion of robot, Claptrap, from Borderlands.
0:04 look how nervous bender looks :D
really great job.😊
I was thinking that you could have springs between the plates in the arms so they would return to a default position after being moved by the servos.
I also was thinking that you could put in 4 strings in each arm that goes through each plate and then you have 4-directional movement. you would loose the joints but you would gain a whole lot more motion in the arms just like Bender in the series.
Very nice!!!!!!!!!!
next make Flexo!
Plastic ducting would be perfect for the arms if you can find the right diameter to match your discs. Been considering using the same for a Bender cosplay myself.
that's a really great project mate i was getting board with some of the coding and arduino talk i can't follow that at all but bender, love the look and movement you have done well done
It would be epic to have Marvin from H2G2 !
pretty cool
Please, please, please fix the color of the mouth and eyes!
Agreed, they would look much better in an off white colour.
Totally agree! I don't understand the yellow. But good job so far!
7:15 Bender is painted Foghat grey.
don't forget about his robo manhood (his antenna)
also is there any way to make him belch fire?
just a suggestion.
You could skin the arms with flexible ducting and it might look pretty cool
Bender the bending unit doesn't need his arms. Great.
why not put a third servo at the shoulder so he can raise his arms? Bender has to be able to wave his beer bottle around or he just ain't bender. Love this build!
The arms are kind of what I described in the comments on the previous Bender video. I think these you made need some work. A modified version would be disks, like you printed, with a flexible rod down the center of them rather than the nylon piece you used. Like I described before, put both servos at the shoulder with strings running down front/back and left/right sides. Each continuous servo has two reels with the strings wound in opposite directions. When the servo turns it pulls on one side while releasing the other side.
Thanks for building me
Oh yeah baby
You need add one beer cup machine for beer out it will cool
Jose Valdez to could you imagine having a small keg in there and having it pour beer at conventions!
My 6 year old son watches your videos with me, he says you should give it the body of one of the nightmare animatronics from the game "5 nights at Freddy's"!
you haven't forgotten his antenna I hope. should be easy to print at least.
why not use dryer vent tubing to cover the arms?
I'd say the arms look really small at the moment, maybe the fabric will make them thicker. Everything else looks great!
Seems like styrene would have been a better choice to skin the body. It's lite, easy to work with, and would protect the robot better at a convention.
i think just moving the elbow motor to the topside of the plate its mounted on would fix the wrist look
love the builds, also i was thinking that you should do a titanfall titan, i was going to attempt it, and i would like if someone who knows what they're doing is trying it too
Time to start a drinking game for every time he says bend in this video.
is there any room left so you can put a mini cooler in bender's chest for beer and when you take a beer out make him say hey get your own beer bub
Make...megaman. I'll make the megabuster!
Awesome work James. Love the stuff you have been doing. What ever happened to your boat after it sank and the navy had to rescue you?
hi James, nice progress on the blender build.
i have a favor to ask, would you mind adding the product names/types and possible seller in the discription? so it would be easier to find, when we want to buy the same product.
thanks anyway for your dedication showing this vlogs.
Wow
SKIN UP with Bender LOL
The antenna needs to go on to make him look 100% like bender
Could you add in a fuel cell that runs on beer?
Bender's finish color is "Foghat Gray." :D
please do a headmaster from Transformers to see if you can downsize it and have it turn into a head on top of the actual robot with magnets maybe
love the build wish his eyes and mouth weren't so yellow. Needs to be a bit closer to white for me personally.