My 3 axis skull...in progress - Page 3

HalloweenBob · #21 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 02:58 PM

Any takers on helping me get that video up?

Twisted...Have you gotten anywhere with it?

you can download it here:

http://rewindshow.com/Download/3AxisSkull.avi

I think you will need to right click the link and choose "Save Target As" to download it as simply clicking it trys to play it.
It will take you 30 min to an hour to download the 700 meg 3 min long file.

Please refer to my post a few posts up for details.

Twisted, please check in. If you are able to get it done, then no one else will need to download, but if you are having troubles, please let me know.

twistedvisions68 · #22 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 03:52 PM

ok the link is this

MySpaceTV Videos: HalloweenBobs 3 axis...

youll have to wait for the vid to go into there system ok but it shoud come up soon. I have never use them before so I dont know how long it will take

bob I got it down to 28meg it runs the same on my computer but will have to wait and see how it comes out on youtube ok when it comes up Ill put the main link up ok

HalloweenBob · #23 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 07:22 PM

Twisted has compressed my huge video for me.

He has posted it on YouTube, but the link isn't ready yet. He will post it when it becomes active.

In the meantime, I have uploaded the new smaller video in case anyone wants to download something of reasonable size.

This one is still the full 3 minutes, but is only 28 Meg.

Thanks, Don!

Here is the link:

Remember to right click on the link and choose "Save Target As" otherwise it will try and load and play in the browser....maybe with the smaller size that will work. We'll see.

Dr Morbius · #24 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 10:32 PM

I downloaded the HUGE one..LOL! Man, that looks FANTASTIC! Now I gotta try my hand at the "gimble" version...You can't beat the fluidity of the motion! Nice tune too...Exellent job! Oh, and welcome to the 3 Axis skull club!

twistedvisions68 · #25 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 05:17 AM

I have it up on myspace and youtube here are the links
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MySpaceTV Videos: HalloweenBobs 3 axis...

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and youtube but for some reason on youtube the sound wont work yet.if it dont work with in a day Ill re-uplaod it for every one

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

working so far

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hey bob what it the name of that song?

HERE YA GO AND ENJOY

THANKS BOB

HalloweenBob · #26 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 07:17 AM

A friend of mine let me use his Adobe Premiere Pro software.

A bit of a learning curve, but I was able to chop up the video into a couple smaller pieces.

The first one just shows some of the motion along with the music and is about 4 meg in size:

Right Click Here and select "Save target As"

The next one is about 8 Meg and shows the servos working while in motion and then some motion of the skull also to the same audio.

Right Click Here and select "Save target As"

And thanks to Don at Twistedvisions68, it is now up on YouTube with sound at this address:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Thanks for looking and credit for this project goes to Mike C for providing all the inspiration (as well as quite a bit of information and imagination!)

The song is called "The Headless Horseman" by Kay Starr

You can fnd it along with a bunch of others on my sound effects page HERE.

I will be posting quite a bit more on this as it all starts to come together.

spookineer · #27 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 02:26 PM

Excellent engineering Bob, nice work. And a very easy to follow tutorial too, thanks!

bourno · #28 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 07:38 PM

GREAT WORK !!!

And nice pics of the setup. It is a really clean, simple method you have there.

A note for not needing a custom shaft for others:
From the pics, I think using a piece of all-thread, with a couple nuts to lock against each other, a spacer, then the rest (rod end, spacer, nuts, servo connections) as shown in the earlier post would work fine IMO.

Again, nice work. Not sure if I will get around to building one, but I appreciate your work and sharing what you made.

HalloweenBob · #29 (**permalink**) 07-05-2007, 03:57 AM

You are probably correct about the custom rod.

The reason I did it this way was that I wanted a heavier (thicker) rod extending all the way to the rod end (gimble) to add extra support so the head will not shake around when in motion.

You will see in the video that it does shake, but that is because it is not actually attached to anything yet, and the rod is longer than it will be when finished. Right now it is bolted to a small paint can filled with dirt.

I suppose you can buy a larger diameter rod end to accomodate the thicker threaded rod and go that route. I don't see why it wouldn't work. You would still need to drill a hole in the top and cut threads into it to accept a screw that would hold the two armatures in place, but other than that, you probably would not need any other special tooling for that rod.

Having an engineer friend with his own machine shop in his house, he designed it that way because he could. If you didn't have the tools to make one, the design would most likely be different, but would achieve the same thing.

Just make sure that the rod fits snugly through the rod end even if it is threaded, or you will get sloppy movement (and who wants a sloppy movement) and bouncing of the skull.

bourno · #30 (**permalink**) 07-05-2007, 06:21 AM

I know exactly what you mean.

When you got the tools available, why dink around trying to mesh other pieces together when you can do it the way you envision it should be done