Beauty and the Beast rose
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Lasermike
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Thank you.
The green parts were printed on my Anet A8, a cheap Chinese clone of the Prusa i3. It works but it's not the fastest nor most accurate. I've since stepped up to the Bambu Lab X1C. It's so fancy it's bells have whistles. I only designed and made the mechanics, our props guy mounted it in the cloche and added all of the trim along with making it look like an actual rose. I have skills but they stop at making things look good. Everything was designed in Tinkercad, I've tried fancier programs but just can't get them to bend to my will.
The servos use cams to pull on jewelry wire that runs up the stem. At the top, the wire is connected to small magnets with adhesive lined heat shrink tubing. A ball point pen spring resets the magnet. A small washer in each petal holds the petal to the magnet until the magnet is pulled into the rose bud. The brass tube acts as a fairlead, the servos didn't have enough power to reliably pull the magnet down against the drag of the sharp turn into the aluminum stem.
Michael
The green parts were printed on my Anet A8, a cheap Chinese clone of the Prusa i3. It works but it's not the fastest nor most accurate. I've since stepped up to the Bambu Lab X1C. It's so fancy it's bells have whistles. I only designed and made the mechanics, our props guy mounted it in the cloche and added all of the trim along with making it look like an actual rose. I have skills but they stop at making things look good. Everything was designed in Tinkercad, I've tried fancier programs but just can't get them to bend to my will.
The servos use cams to pull on jewelry wire that runs up the stem. At the top, the wire is connected to small magnets with adhesive lined heat shrink tubing. A ball point pen spring resets the magnet. A small washer in each petal holds the petal to the magnet until the magnet is pulled into the rose bud. The brass tube acts as a fairlead, the servos didn't have enough power to reliably pull the magnet down against the drag of the sharp turn into the aluminum stem.
Michael
Lasermike
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Tiny little SG90 servos. I used an 8 channel twin stick RC remote. One servo controlled by a stick’s up/down or left/right movement. That let me control 4 servos independently. The lights were powered by a on/off led controller plugged into a channel controlled by a toggle switch on the transmitter.
Michael
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