every time i see you make something new or make a previous creation better, it inspires me to try to make my own creations as good as a can and that there always is a better way to do something than the way i am doing it already. keep doing great things.
Thank you so much for sharing! Ever since your first DIY eye mechanism 2 years back I really enjoyed your make and design. And now this version! And the most realistic diy eyes on youtube. It will be a fun challenge to make this!
@11:00 I lightly heat screws (by touching a soldering iron against it), then thread screws into it, and it makes great threads without cracking the part
I want to build your eye mechanism for my robot! Seems I should view all of your videos! Your creative talents are obvious, your skills speak for themselves! Thank you for your selfless contributions! Subscription was a no brainer, I’m in!
Thanks for sharing this project! I have been wanting to build it since it first came to my attention a couple of years ago. It turned out great! I am anxious to try some of your other projects.
Thank you very much, Will. I bought the previous Animatic Eye. I changed the design a little bit. But when I saw this video, I intend to built this one here. Thank you again.
I'm tempted to try and modify this design to make it work for costuming, with eye tracking or a controller, depending on what ends up being plausible. Really brilliant design! I'm looking forward to the controller and being inspired by all your future videos!
@@WillCogley I'll certainly try then! :D Also do you think that it would be possible to move the mechanism to be above/below/both in relation to the eyes rather than behind? I would have to learn a lot more about the software necessary for such modifications, but i'm wondering if you think that's worth pursuing?
@Omegryth Yeah that would definitely be possible. One thing I'm hoping to try soon is having a cable mechanism between the eyes and the motors so you could hide the motors anywhere you want.
@@Dan-The-Orange I am sorry, didn't mean to discourage or claim it was not possible. I can imagine it would work absolutely flawlessly if the code is well thought out. Like for example add an eye boundary (camera space) in which the tracked object can stay and the eye stays where it is. If it is outside this box wait x milliseconds and retarget, which would overcome lmitations of cheap camera modules (at high speed). I did a false claim with the motion blur, lol.
I've made this design. I love all of jt. I'm having an issue tho. The upper lids work with the blink and the up and down movement. Won't move with the potentiometer squint though. I'm possitive it's in the control but can't figure it out
Very nice design, but the next iteration of this design should be the separation of movement between the two eye balls and lids to allow for a much wider variety of eye movements such as winking and going cross-eyed. One of my favorites things to creep people out is to look left then cross-eyed then right and back the other way.
3:38 Just wondering why if the 2 eyeballs move parallel to each other not use the same pair of servos to move both eyes similar to what is done with the eye lids, this will save money on 2 extra servos and less wiring to worry about. this will require the 2 servos for X and Y motion of the eyeballs to be moved to the centre.
This is a really good project. I am building the eyes, right now, for a robot. So I will be putting cameras where the eyeballs are. Plus, I think I have a way to use 4 servos, instead of 6.
Love the bloodshot eye's. Way to go for realism. I suppose a robot with no eye lids would be creepy, but it seems like a lot of potential mechanical failure points.
fabulous sir! I must say you are very innovative. I would like if you could built robotic eye cams i.e using a cam in the eyeballs of the animatronics eye project. Maybe you would add object recognition, object tracking and face recognition to bring life to this.
I made it and put smd rgb led in each eye. Had to remake the two eyes so there is a hole in the middle of them the printed with clear pla to holed the led and fill in the rest of the eye. for now every forth blink the eye will show a different color. looks wild!
@T H You could put them on instructables on the I made this section www.instructables.com/id/Simplified-3D-Printed-Animatronic-Dual-Eye-Mechani/ or just post it on twitter/Instagram/facebook and send a link.
I am doing something similar, after i cast the eye with the paint i am drilling out the back for the LED to sit in there the drill should leave enough of a haze on the resin to defuse it a bit.
Is this something i can make into an auto command and battery operated ? I just need one eye ball . No eye lids . Will be for a wall piece so i dont want wall plugs
I'd recommend printing everything 5 or 10% larger. I had to do alot of post print clean up and use a 2mm tap and die to open the holes up more to fit everything.
If I wanna make bigger eyes do i have to change something else then or does the mechanics work on bigger eyes too? If not, what do i have to change and to what scale? The size of the eyes im about to do is probably 4-6 times bigger!
@Will Cogley Could you please release some of these as step files for printing? Getting the placeholder eye as a step file would be particularly useful and I would really appreciate it.
Is it possible that you can make custom eyeballs. Maybe clear ones with clear pigments or maybe with some glitters? Maybe a smile that's made of pearl glitter and clear? Maybe custom eyes with lights on them?
Can we make a program who these Servo-motor play in loop to look like natural eyes without our action ? Or move independently ? Its difficult for me to understand how the program acts on the eye movement.
I've got this thing wired up but nothing is happening. No servo movement at all. Thinking it may be a power issue? I've got a 5v battery pack going to the arduino like you have here, and a 4.5v going into the servo driver. Any ideas?
Big Al Hi all, as I am new to 3 D printing and have purchased an Ender-5 Plus (I am 73 so never too old to learn ?) and would like to print Will Cogleys animatronic eye mechanism and also the printing of the realistic eyeball and holder. Can anybody tell me how I can download (or where to look) for the 3D printable software ?? many thanks
good design however to fit it inside a head it could be made much smaller by spinning the x and y servos by 90 degrees and opposing them , removing the eylid servos from the rear and placing them on top you would gain a good 25 to 30 mm that way, also a great addition would be a camera mounted in one of the eyes
How easily could a project like this be scaled up? I intend to make a slightly larger version at some point, however I don’t know much about the mechanics of scaling it up and how that will affect how it works or if I will run into any other problems.
excelente video, gracias por compartir...te pregunto, en la vida real el ojo humano funciona de manera similar o es tu forma de afrontar el problema de movimiento natural del ojo. según tu estudio,
Has anyone seen an example of this with stereoscopic mini cam setup embedded in the faux- eyes? How could this design be engineered for placement of the sensors in each pupil?
It’s coded in - the vertical reading from the joystick is scaled down and the value is added/subtracted (depending on orientation) to the angle of the lids
absolutely adore these videos. have you considered making a tutorial on how to make animatronic eyes to be fitted into a mask? I am attempting to make one but getting things to sync up is very difficult (on top of making the machanism small and light enough) so I'd be very interested in your advice
Spend some time learning Fusion 360 and/or Blender. Don't ask this guy to spend his limited time catering to individual projects when something like this is a HUGE goldmine of information and a great launch pad for your own project. Worked for me.
it was an innocent question man but thanks, now I won't ask for help on other videos like this in the future because I'm legitimately scared of people like you replying :D @@KOAlleyCat
Brilliant video(s). Thanks so much for sharing all of this amazing r&d. The attention to detail on the eye tutorial is fantastic. I'm curious to know if anyone has made a larger version of this? I need ONE giant, (around 15cm) moving eye for a low budget film I'm planning. If not, then I guess I'll have to have a go myself...!
Would something like this be compatible with a Halloween skeleton? I'm trying to make some memorial dolls of my grandmother and just wanted it her to be some what animated.
First of all, amazing project! I was wondering if the eyes support against the lids when they move and if it's possible to make the distance between eyes and servos shorter without messing the movement? I'd like to make a single eye, lidless version but the use I have in mind would need it to be relatively low depth 🤔
I made this but I couldn't get it to work. Any way you could point me in the right direction on how to add the program to the Arduino? I am not sure what I did wrong but may have been that. Programming is my least strong ability of any of this. Thanks!
Awesome stuff. I was looking for something like these to see if my ideas would work. As it seems they do but I have a couple of questions. Do the eye orbs have enough space to have a phone style camera in each of them? Couldn’t both eyes share the same servos since the move in a symmetrical way?
Complete noob here so please forgive me, but is it possible to do this project without the adafruit board and just stick to the arduino uno? I don't really understand the purpose of the adafruit board. Would love some tips regarding this
Should the code be uploaded to the Arduino before or after every is wired? Also, do you have a photograph of the wire set up, instead of just the diagram? Is the breadboard part of the design, or is it replaced later, and if so, how?
Couldn't this be done with half the servos? Are the redundant servos a question of wanting more options in the long run (upper and lower eyelids moving separately, ability to go "cross-eyed" etc.), or are they there for the sake of power?
every time i see you make something new or make a previous creation better, it inspires me to try to make my own creations as good as a can and that there always is a better way to do something than the way i am doing it already. keep doing great things.
Thank you for putting together this amazing tutorial.
This is absolutely fantastic! It's great to see intricate and compact contraptions like this!
Thank you so much for sharing! Ever since your first DIY eye mechanism 2 years back I really enjoyed your make and design. And now this version! And the most realistic diy eyes on youtube. It will be a fun challenge to make this!
I made it! Used an Arduino Nano. SDA and SCL are on A4 and A5.
@11:00 I lightly heat screws (by touching a soldering iron against it), then thread screws into it, and it makes great threads without cracking the part
Excellent design, just finished my prints and am starting assembly!
@christian hernandez read the descriptions duh
I love this design. Easy to convey a more Animatronic design by replacing lids with wire to connect to silicone exterior shell. Well done mate!😁😁😁😁😁
I want to build your eye mechanism for my robot! Seems I should view all of your videos! Your creative talents are obvious, your skills speak for themselves! Thank you for your selfless contributions! Subscription was a no brainer, I’m in!
Thanks for sharing this project! I have been wanting to build it since it first came to my attention a couple of years ago. It turned out great! I am anxious to try some of your other projects.
Works great - I have it in a pumpkin just now - spooky like you wouldn't believe :)
Thank you very much, Will. I bought the previous Animatic Eye. I changed the design a little bit. But when I saw this video, I intend to built this one here. Thank you again.
I'm tempted to try and modify this design to make it work for costuming, with eye tracking or a controller, depending on what ends up being plausible. Really brilliant design! I'm looking forward to the controller and being inspired by all your future videos!
Please do! I'd love to see it in a costume.
@@WillCogley I'll certainly try then! :D
Also do you think that it would be possible to move the mechanism to be above/below/both in relation to the eyes rather than behind? I would have to learn a lot more about the software necessary for such modifications, but i'm wondering if you think that's worth pursuing?
@Omegryth Yeah that would definitely be possible. One thing I'm hoping to try soon is having a cable mechanism between the eyes and the motors so you could hide the motors anywhere you want.
Man I love your works!!
Awesome video! Thanks so much for being so thorough with your instructions. I really want to get into mechatronics and I think this will help a lot!
THANK YOU!!!! Can’t wait for the controller. Everyone loves the eyes I made from the last video.
They look great, did you change filament part way through the eyes to get the different colours? thanks for posting them on instructables!
Will Cogley no I remixed them they are two separate pieces. The black is nail polish.
Wonderful engineering. A very well designed apparatus.
Try to make a eye tracking mechanism, with cameras integred inside each eyeball
Motion blur would be too high
Absolutely possible. You could even use the same code in one of James Bruton's videos. I might try this as I actually have everything needed at home.
@@Dan-The-Orange I am sorry, didn't mean to discourage or claim it was not possible. I can imagine it would work absolutely flawlessly if the code is well thought out. Like for example add an eye boundary (camera space) in which the tracked object can stay and the eye stays where it is. If it is outside this box wait x milliseconds and retarget, which would overcome lmitations of cheap camera modules (at high speed). I did a false claim with the motion blur, lol.
@@Dan-The-Orange What do you think is better? In-eye tracking or one camera in between the eyes tracking and calculating the eye angles?
@@Dan-The-Orange Let me know how it goes!
I've made this design. I love all of jt. I'm having an issue tho. The upper lids work with the blink and the up and down movement. Won't move with the potentiometer squint though. I'm possitive it's in the control but can't figure it out
Very nice design, but the next iteration of this design should be the separation of movement between the two eye balls and lids to allow for a much wider variety of eye movements such as winking and going cross-eyed. One of my favorites things to creep people out is to look left then cross-eyed then right and back the other way.
Great maker video and in-depth explanation. Those eyeballs are very realistic 👌
amazing work! so much intricate movement.
Your link to the Servo Ball links is wrong. It goes to M3 link instead of M2. I had to return them and reorder. Just FYI Thanks
That's cool. Might have to get into this 3d printing stuff.
I want to do this model for my project where can get the 3D model.......?
Great stuff! Can't print fast enough between uni and assignments but I'll get a set working someday!
3:38 Just wondering why if the 2 eyeballs move parallel to each other not use the same pair of servos to move both eyes similar to what is done with the eye lids, this will save money on 2 extra servos and less wiring to worry about. this will require the 2 servos for X and Y motion of the eyeballs to be moved to the centre.
This is awesome work man, honestly.
Very nice design and video.
14:17 bless you.
This combined with a recreation of the puppet of the baby from the mandalorian would be awesome.
This is a really good project. I am building the eyes, right now, for a robot. So I will be putting cameras where the eyeballs are. Plus, I think I have a way to use 4 servos, instead of 6.
Love the bloodshot eye's. Way to go for realism. I suppose a robot with no eye lids would be creepy, but it seems like a lot of potential mechanical failure points.
Awesome project man!
Your design is so awesome!!
Love watching you work!
very Fascinating !
Very clever design, well done. Thank you for sharing your work.
Awesome thanks for sharing I'm trying to do something like this soon!
I also made an RV version using mixing on an OpenTX radio, I used the Taranis X-lite by FrSky
Elegance in design!
Another great video, Will!
How do i make a movable jaw?
fabulous sir! I must say you are very innovative. I would like if you could built robotic eye cams i.e using a cam in the eyeballs of the animatronics eye project. Maybe you would add object recognition, object tracking and face recognition to bring life to this.
I wish you could provide a kit with all the part and also make the different sizes available. Your woods AWESOME!
Great video, great project and am already using the eyes and will be having a go with the mechanism in the new year ;) keep up the great work mate :)
Como obtengo estos mecanismo de ojos
I made it and put smd rgb led in each eye. Had to remake the two eyes so there is a hole in the middle of them the printed with clear pla to holed the led and fill in the rest of the eye. for now every forth blink the eye will show a different color. looks wild!
That sounds ace, I'd love to see a video or photos of it.
@@WillCogley I will get pics and a video for you, where can I send them so you can see em?
@@YesItsTJ Just post it in Twitter or smth like that, we want to see it too ^^
@T H You could put them on instructables on the I made this section www.instructables.com/id/Simplified-3D-Printed-Animatronic-Dual-Eye-Mechani/ or just post it on twitter/Instagram/facebook and send a link.
I am doing something similar, after i cast the eye with the paint i am drilling out the back for the LED to sit in there the drill should leave enough of a haze on the resin to defuse it a bit.
This is awesome man. New subscriber ✌🏻
Is this something i can make into an auto command and battery operated ? I just need one eye ball . No eye lids . Will be for a wall piece so i dont want wall plugs
Can't wait for the controller!
I'd recommend printing everything 5 or 10% larger. I had to do alot of post print clean up and use a 2mm tap and die to open the holes up more to fit everything.
If I wanna make bigger eyes do i have to change something else then or does the mechanics work on bigger eyes too? If not, what do i have to change and to what scale? The size of the eyes im about to do is probably 4-6 times bigger!
Is there a way for us to get the 3rd models or make them because I don’t know how😭🙏
@Will Cogley Could you please release some of these as step files for printing? Getting the placeholder eye as a step file would be particularly useful and I would really appreciate it.
This is so cool. Amazing. Thank you for sharing this!!!
Is it possible that you can make custom eyeballs.
Maybe clear ones with clear pigments or maybe with some glitters?
Maybe a smile that's made of pearl glitter and clear? Maybe custom eyes with lights on them?
Just brilliant!
I will be using these to make an animatronic Chucky
😓
Can we make a program who these Servo-motor play in loop to look like natural eyes without our action ? Or move independently ?
Its difficult for me to understand how the program acts on the eye movement.
really nice stuff!
Love it!
Is it necessary to use the servo power supply board? Can we just us a power source and connect the servo analog pins to the arduino?
This eye mechanism is very interesting. Can we use this same method to make a shoulder joint move more naturally?
I used the first eye Animatronic layout that I seen on UA-cam.
I've got this thing wired up but nothing is happening. No servo movement at all. Thinking it may be a power issue? I've got a 5v battery pack going to the arduino like you have here, and a 4.5v going into the servo driver. Any ideas?
Consider checking your current?
Big Al
Hi all, as I am new to 3 D printing and have purchased an Ender-5 Plus (I am 73 so never too old to learn ?) and would like to print Will Cogleys animatronic eye mechanism and also the printing of the realistic eyeball and holder. Can anybody tell me how I can download (or where to look) for the 3D printable software ?? many thanks
good design however to fit it inside a head it could be made much smaller by spinning the x and y servos by 90 degrees and opposing them , removing the eylid servos from the rear and placing them on top you would gain a good 25 to 30 mm that way, also a great addition would be a camera mounted in one of the eyes
How easily could a project like this be scaled up? I intend to make a slightly larger version at some point, however I don’t know much about the mechanics of scaling it up and how that will affect how it works or if I will run into any other problems.
excelente video, gracias por compartir...te pregunto, en la vida real el ojo humano funciona de manera similar o es tu forma de afrontar el problema de movimiento natural del ojo. según tu estudio,
This is awesome.
Very nice project! I'm am going to build this!
dude ur videos are very good PLEASE PLEASE upload more videos
It’s low key cute ngl😳
where would i get the stl files for printing this project....??
how can i make them follow you if you move?
Has anyone seen an example of this with stereoscopic mini cam setup embedded in the faux- eyes? How could this design be engineered for placement of the sensors in each pupil?
Anyone know where I could get the CAD for the ball joint linkages?
Thank you very much for your sharing,it was a great help and inspiration to me .
Another possible idea ? :
Making eyelid part more like a wire skeleton or a mesh(?) So the lids seem less thick.
Thoughts?
where did you get a STEP file for the ball-links? i'm having trouble finding a model of the right size that I can use in fusion 360.
grate grate .. many thanks for sharing your knowledge
How did you make eyelids follow the eye movement? Is it your manual skill, or there is some code part that make sure they behave like this?
It’s coded in - the vertical reading from the joystick is scaled down and the value is added/subtracted (depending on orientation) to the angle of the lids
Hi did you think the SLA resins can be better for printing this parts?
I don't have access to an SLA printer personally but I'd be very interested to see how it went if someone were to test it out!
Some people tell me if you made your parts in SLA print make the choice of soft résine not strong it’s better
How do you make the mechanical parts quite?
Any way to make this battery operated?
absolutely adore these videos. have you considered making a tutorial on how to make animatronic eyes to be fitted into a mask? I am attempting to make one but getting things to sync up is very difficult (on top of making the machanism small and light enough) so I'd be very interested in your advice
Spend some time learning Fusion 360 and/or Blender. Don't ask this guy to spend his limited time catering to individual projects when something like this is a HUGE goldmine of information and a great launch pad for your own project. Worked for me.
it was an innocent question man but thanks, now I won't ask for help on other videos like this in the future because I'm legitimately scared of people like you replying :D @@KOAlleyCat
@@Modmadmod Oh boo hoo. You’ll be just fine. 😂
Asking for help =/= asking a creator to do extra work so you don’t have to learn a skill.
Brilliant video(s). Thanks so much for sharing all of this amazing r&d. The attention to detail on the eye tutorial is fantastic.
I'm curious to know if anyone has made a larger version of this? I need ONE giant, (around 15cm) moving eye for a low budget film I'm planning.
If not, then I guess I'll have to have a go myself...!
Would something like this be compatible with a Halloween skeleton?
I'm trying to make some memorial dolls of my grandmother and just wanted it her to be some what animated.
First of all, amazing project! I was wondering if the eyes support against the lids when they move and if it's possible to make the distance between eyes and servos shorter without messing the movement? I'd like to make a single eye, lidless version but the use I have in mind would need it to be relatively low depth 🤔
Is there another place I.cpuld get the servo link ?
I made this but I couldn't get it to work. Any way you could point me in the right direction on how to add the program to the Arduino? I am not sure what I did wrong but may have been that. Programming is my least strong ability of any of this. Thanks!
Awesome stuff. I was looking for something like these to see if my ideas would work. As it seems they do but I have a couple of questions. Do the eye orbs have enough space to have a phone style camera in each of them? Couldn’t both eyes share the same servos since the move in a symmetrical way?
thats awesome man
where is the link for 3d printed parts
does anyone know if this human size or like puppet size
Complete noob here so please forgive me, but is it possible to do this project without the adafruit board and just stick to the arduino uno? I don't really understand the purpose of the adafruit board. Would love some tips regarding this
If could add two cameras to these eye ball, it will be another story. I am not sure if that’s possible!?
Should the code be uploaded to the Arduino before or after every is wired? Also, do you have a photograph of the wire set up, instead of just the diagram? Is the breadboard part of the design, or is it replaced later, and if so, how?
Couldn't this be done with half the servos? Are the redundant servos a question of wanting more options in the long run (upper and lower eyelids moving separately, ability to go "cross-eyed" etc.), or are they there for the sake of power?
What's the software you've shown in the beginning of this video? 123D?
Hi where I can to get the eyes ?
This is such a delightfully simple mechanism. I wonder how complicated it would need to be to include eye crossing/uncrossing…
Thanks! This mechanism can cross it's eyes actually, although I'm not sure what the controller would have to look like to control it haha.