30.6.15

Thesis: I have been working on collating the data from the IBDM website concerning animatronic characters I am currently at the year 1980 and I can already see an influx of the implementation of the medium in film during that one year (1980) statistical analysis will ensure when I have reached the current year.

Model: I have been working on getting the eyes to function together in proportion and I have successfully finished augmenting them. The next stage will be to work on the eye-lid mechanism.

Feelings

I am pretty happy with the progress made over the course of the last session. Adding the eye mechanism to the model has given me some more ideas of new areas I may explore and prototype later on in the project. 

Evaluation

The eye mechanism is a little bit out of sync, I think not using the standard servo formation of four servos (2 x linked via splitter leads) is making this a little tougher to get running smooth. But I really want the eyes to look like they are driven from the back of the head where the arduino is placed. I think seeing this mechanism and how it looks aesthetically is more important that how it will function at this stage as I know from my last project there is a few little tricks I can use to align them later on. 

Analysis

The current situation of the project makes sense to me, I am starting to see how the two elements of the project interlink and more importantly how important they are to each other. This is a real exploitative way of building via research and it is proving very interesting to get professional opinion on this. I think using standard practice when creating this model is going to add onto the over all costing of the project so creating a mechanism that uses two servos for eye control rather than four will prove to be more cost effective and also make the system for reliable and easier to replace any faulty parts as changing and finding errors in two servos is simpler than attempting to discover, test and repair four servos. 

Conclusion

In conclusion this session has been an extremely interesting one and have provided me with plenty of food for thought over the next week or so. 

Action Plan

The action plan for the next few days it to install the eyelid mechanisms onto the robot and test the durability of these elements using the r.c remote over the course of a few hours. This procedure proved very useful in the last project as running the system for long periods of time tends to show up any faults or potential hazards in the mechanism.