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An even BIGGER update!

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 A lot has changed in the last few weeks! I'm sorry I didn't update sooner. More on this later!! So. From my last blog, if you read it, you will know that I got the EasyVR shield working, detecting my inputs and displaying this on the screen. Well now he speaks!! Check out the below! (You might not be able to see this video if you don't have HDR enabled. Sorry!) Electronics I've really struggled with my EasyVR and my Music Maker shields stacked atop one another, and eventually I ruined my EasyVR trying to change the pinouts. There's two teeny tiny resistors on the back that you can allegedly move and re-solder in order to change the pins that the EasyVR uses. I needed to do this because the Music Maker shield and the EasyVR use the same pins - 12 and 13. (The Music Maker uses several more, but the EasyVR only uses two). But doing this was a bloody nightmare, I don't think I really have the equipment to do it because they're so small, and I burnt the board an...
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A BIG Update

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Hi all!! So for the last, like, forever, my computer has actually been a laptop plugged into a monitor, with a keyboard and mouse attached too. So I never used my laptop physically. I thought this was great because I still had a laptop when I needed it, but actually it turned into more of a problem than anything. First, although it was quite high-power in terms of laptop, it actually was incapable of running even quite old video games - including, for example, Portal 2. I also couldn't plug Dawn into it directly (it only had two USB C ports, and no other ports, and one of these was used for charging/power). The MicroSD card slot was difficult to get to. If I wanted to plug my Arduino in, I had to unplug the laptop from charge (because the other port was used for the monitor). It was all getting to be a bit of a nightmare. So I decided it had to go. If you've never heard of CEX, they are a high street store that buys and sells used tech. Computers, video games, controllers, etc....
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Eye See You!

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 The eye works! I printed all the new components which I redesigned and glued it together. I mounted the servo to the back and did some brief programming to get it moving, and it WORKS!! Check out the video below: A video of the aperture rotating by itself! I'm so impressed, this honestly blew me away and I just started laughing. I am genuinely shocked that I got it working so well. I was fully prepared to abandon this part of the project and make the eye static, but nope it works perfectly.  The bad news is, the eyelids are quite complex. I have only just designed the eyelids, very much as an afterthought. Have a look below: Highlighted in yellow is the lower eyelid and the support arm I've really struggled with this because the eyelids and the servos and support arms all have to rotate side-to-side with the rest of the faceplate. And I tried several different designs, and they all  collided with the centre bar (shown in the foreground in the above photo) when rotating. ...
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Hello World!

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 Hi all! AmazingOomoo here. I don't know how successful this blog will be. It's my first time doing a blog because my life is not usually interesting enough to read about. But if you are here from Reddit, hooray!! The Background So I love a good project. And often my ideas for project come to me all of a sudden and then I just have to do it. I'm very impulsive. Much like starting this blog, the idea just came to me whilst I was on the toilet. When I am concentrating at work, I tend to put music on, but I find music with words very distracting as I end up focusing on that instead of reading or writing which is what I am supposed to be doing. So I put video game music on. Uncharted, Tomb Raider, and my favourite at the moment - the Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories album, from Portal 2. Listening to it really got me in the mood to play Portal 2 again, and on my 2nd playthrough I thought "I wanna make Wheatley." I just suddenly had to have one. I have a lo...
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