Designing a 3D Printed Animatronic Eye Mechanism With ZERO Fasteners

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00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Why Make It?
01:50 - Mechanical Design
04:37 - Realistic (But Easier) Eyes
08:47 - Electronics, Programming and Controller Design
09:28 - Assembly
11:02 - Trying Different Filaments
12:12 - But is it Actually Better?

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@andrebullitt7212 Ай бұрын

I built the original design and added the Huskeylens for face and object ID and added the person sensor. Thanks for this. I will try it on my next one. Also go to Amazon and use these eyes "LIFANOU Half Round Eyeballs 33mm - 1 Pair Realistic Acrylic Fake Eyes for Halloween Props, Dolls Crafts, Cosplay and Party Decoration (Brown)" . You have to sand them down a little to make them fit.

@neilnagel9857 Ай бұрын

I'm really having lots of problems getting a person sensor to work. Care to share some code?

@andrebullitt7212 Ай бұрын

@@neilnagel9857 What is you email address?

@andrebullitt7212 Ай бұрын

@@neilnagel9857 what is your email address?

@matbeedotcom 28 күн бұрын

@@neilnagel9857 You can go super simple and simply use a movement sensor, or you can go high precision and use an ML model for pose tracking, what are you looking for?

@handance7333 Ай бұрын

Wow 😯 didnt expect this design to get an update. No screws is so smart 🧠 !!!

@CrunchyMind Ай бұрын

Loved the assembly ASMR, was so calming and would watch 30 minutes of it

@PiefacePete46 Ай бұрын

Who would have thought that about four minutes of "Clicks" could be so satisfying! 😊

@LincolnWorld Ай бұрын

I'm trying not to swear, but that is (BLEEPING) amazing! I was already impressed with the original design, but this is a very welcome upgrade. I don't think I've ever seen another eye mech that moved so smoothly and realistically.

@jonahoskow7476 26 күн бұрын

Brilliant work! I know people in the puppet community would 100% buy finished versions of this. I also think there is a version of this that is rod controlled, no servos required. Not a cable, a solid rod. The rod is pushed up and down, and the eyes move up and down, this fits in the neck. But left to right? Solved by the rod controlling that via being rotated left and right. Horns, like on a servo, attach to the eyes via a linkage system etc. I know puppet people like big eyes, that are sometimes more than 50% out of the head. If the eyes are held in place by rubber bands the eyes can stick out further, and the rod mech doesn't need to have a middle axis because the sphere eyes are being pulled into a socket, that acts like a ball bearing, creating the axis. Just putting this into your head....

@PKWyt Ай бұрын

i suggest you to look into esp32d1 mini boards for the wireless board, they are cheap and small but nativel;y support BT and WIFI, on top of having the ESP NOW protocol to talk between each other, they also are 3.3v board so the remote could be powered by a tingle li-ion cell and have the standard usb charger pcb

@AndrewPrice2704 Ай бұрын

I concur. I have found esp32 to be quite superior to Arduino.

@holemajora598 Ай бұрын

Watching your mechanisms develop over the past couple of years has been awesome

@danielreed5199 Ай бұрын

I could never do this, I find it really hard to work while someone is watching me.

@wanrell Ай бұрын

Love seeing you still working with this! Got my first printer because I got super into your stuff :)

@EuIo93 Ай бұрын

Such a nice update to an already rock solid project!

@spidermaf Ай бұрын

Thanks Will - The mech was printing overnight and I have just started the eyeballs - very grateful for the 3mf files too. Cant wait to order some boards - well done on the design.

@amelliamendel2227 2 күн бұрын

I bought 4 sets of tiny hex screws to make the original but my printer at the time was a pos, but now I have an artillery sidewinder X1 and now that I have a decent printer I'm going to try again with this thank you

@micromaxity3d Ай бұрын

This was unexpected, another eye mech, looks very interesting. Might look into it

@scienceofart9121 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for showing all of these tips and tricks for animatronics, I believe you have the best educational content in youtube and the website you have is awesome. Thanks again I really appreciate the effort you put on these.

@dancastillo27 Ай бұрын

This is so awesome thank you for sharing. Also, I really appreciate you taking us through your journey of constantly refining your design - this is something that can be applied to all disciplines. Thank you so much

@josephwisniewski3673 Ай бұрын

Love this comment: "But they are cool, and coolness is the most important factor in engineering."

@PiefacePete46 Ай бұрын

Never thought of it like that, it sounds odd, but I think it is dead right! I watch a lot of KZfaq engineering content, (too much according to camp mother) and the ones that are most memorable are usually cool! 😊

@edwardpaulsen1074 29 күн бұрын

Coolness may be one of the big factors of engineering, but coolness won't matter if it doesn't work, or breaks too easily... another factor of the DFA should also include possible repairs if it is a high ticket item... or difficult to access... Nobody wants that $1000 animatronic if it is a pain to get into and/or breaks down every couple of days. Sometimes you need a mixture of both to achieve both ease of assembly as well as durability and consistency.

@MegaSuperCritic Ай бұрын

Damn, Mr Cogley!! You’re an inspiration, well done. Can’t wait to swap out my old assembly for this one, thank you!

@RJ_Eckie Ай бұрын

What a cool build! Loving the DFA insights 🙏🏻

@jamgill9054 Ай бұрын

Excellent video and design. Look forward to more of your work.

@charlieharris9370 Ай бұрын

Would love it if you would do a video or write-up to walk through and explain all the electronics, wiring, and code used to make your various eyes work.

@adityasingh-gw1el Ай бұрын

I am getting started with design on CAD and see this gives so much inspiration

@Hak_Se_Engineer Ай бұрын

Great Job Will Cogley, I will try for sure and share it soon with you. Thanks ❤

@PotentStudios 28 күн бұрын

Brilliantly thorough as always!

@apextrainin 19 күн бұрын

Will, it's nice to see that you're still refining your designs. If you would like to have your designs be able to be used in real world applications, there are a few tweaks that need to be made. The issues I'm running into is that they simply don't fit in most applications. If you want a more "universal" type design that can actually be put in animatronics, the eyes and lids and the mounting brackets for them need to be extended at least 1/2" to 3/4". The problem is clearance issues. They should fit easily in the orbits of the eye sockets. When using them in human 😉animatronic heads, especially skulls, they don't fit.

@xxlions101xx4 Ай бұрын

Love your stuff man

@intocoasters Ай бұрын

Oh man, this comes out after I completed one of your other designs. However, the original realistic eye method with the resin cast it's hard to beat. Thank you for sharing these designs!

@TheEngineeringDutchman Ай бұрын

that is so cool mate!

@rob57898 Ай бұрын

I was just looking to reprint the last eye mechanism as its taken a beating over the past year. Definitely going to give this a print today

@giladnahor 18 күн бұрын

WIll, this the best 3D design I had the pleasure to build. Great work!!!

@TheRealStructurer Ай бұрын

Very nice and thanks for sharing 👍🏼

@The_Makers_Prerogative Ай бұрын

Great video! thank you

@darksidegamer1783 Ай бұрын

this the best project i have seen yet, helped me easily win a school robotics competition

@Ernzt8 Ай бұрын

Well done!

@Borysulanenko 5 күн бұрын

Expectation: "Wow, I'll print it and assemble quickly! So nice" Reality: 3 days of re-printing parts broken during the assembly (also adjusting the wholes sizes) But totally worth it - thank you so much for doing what you do!

@retired_man_about_town Ай бұрын

Just awesome!

@poja82 Ай бұрын

This is awesome.

@tyleradams3490 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing. Also those eyes to the left of frame look so funny, all wonky-eyed.

@ytkatz 29 күн бұрын

Awesome work! Just print in some cable management for perfection

@dman8776 Ай бұрын

Great engineering!

@jizhang2407 6 сағат бұрын

Master art work ❤

@easyBob100 Ай бұрын

I watch a YT'r from Japan who makes clockwork type stuff. He uses brass nails and snips. It's pretty much two hole sizes; one for a tight fit, one for a slip fit.

@codyeasonBGR Ай бұрын

I looked him up why can't I find him ?

@easyBob100 Ай бұрын

@@codyeasonBGR B/C YT is owned by Google, which means your searches are futile. I'll try to find his channel....

@easyBob100 Ай бұрын

@@codyeasonBGR Here he is: @karakurist

@joachim1973 Ай бұрын

been a fan since 2018, awesome stuff, safe to say you convinced me to be a true COG

@NOLNV1 29 күн бұрын

Really really ace work, I guess it's time I start filming some creature features!!

@stefanguiton Ай бұрын

Great video

@AckzaTV 27 күн бұрын

Find mass produced ready made cheap eyes and remove electronics and make it a hand/finger moving puppet and it's an amazing toy

@medyk3D Ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@tecnicotec1 Ай бұрын

Genial, very good job.

@anachartetoletier8115 Ай бұрын

Very nice project, it makes me want to see it linked to an ia which, for example, would follow the person in the room with its eyes and which could be questioned at any time (funny and very practical for me who works in a studio alone, for example).

@yoashuain1 Ай бұрын

Love your work. Thanks for sharing. Are your cads editable?

@AckzaTV 27 күн бұрын

Can you make it use self sealing stem bolts? I have so many lying around

@MeGrimlock511 Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! It’s funny that I just printed the old version last week 😂

@azfamtv2588 29 күн бұрын

Excellent results! ....May be I will give it a try! What layer resolution / infill ?

@fridolineckerd6135 Ай бұрын

I love your eyes, I wan to make a cyclops with a camera in the middle of the eye I hope I can do that one day. Thanks for inspiring

@redditus 26 күн бұрын

Lookin good, Will! Love the beard!

@DG123z 28 күн бұрын

Wow! ❤

@zedabyu 20 күн бұрын

Will's back! Still waiting for the day you upscale your design to fit a FNaF animatronic. Do you think that's something you would ever try? I feel like you would have fun making a video of a fully working FNaF head with moveable eyes, eyebrows, ears, and mouth, etc., and the bonus is that the views are basically guaranteed.

@alexanderplatt1812 Ай бұрын

I appreciate your work

@WillCogley Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@3dprintandpaint Ай бұрын

Fantastic design!!! I'm currently printing this after ditching the screwed version due to a lack of parts. Question for my non-tech brain, can this be used with a Pololu maestro board to add automation?

@billgreen4592 Ай бұрын

I'm excited to try this as I have often used your eye mechs before. I have started printing, but I'm not clear in reading the downloads: which of the files need to be printed? If I'm reading the list correctly there needs to be a ton of parts. Any clarification would be very helpful! Thanks!

@user-mg3cc5wv9q 24 күн бұрын

great vid just a quick question have printed and wired everthing but get no movement on any servo any ldeas

@pickinfun6941 Ай бұрын

I haven't even watched yet, but I know it's a thumbs up!

@magicalmancave Ай бұрын

I love this! I’d love to be able to link this with a chat got project I’m working on

@CheeseFlingingCows Ай бұрын

Now you gotta implant cameras and make a really strange ring doorbell

@tamirengineer Ай бұрын

I'd love to see a video showing the different types of ways to optimize for DFA

@Vaasref Ай бұрын

Given the looks of the filament used on the video miniature, I was wondering if you started to use SLS printing and do the whole thing print in place.

@zacfox409 Ай бұрын

“I’m freeeeeeeeeee”

@KeithApplegarth Ай бұрын

Do you have a link to order the board you made on JLC?

@dittilio Ай бұрын

I've found using a bushing from delrin/HDPE/teflon eliminated a lot of my weak points in snap-fit assembly prints. It also meant a number of my snap-fit components were planar, and could be laser cut from different materials.

@user-qi7si1dl9s 6 күн бұрын

You should integrate cameras into the eyeball so it can be a cool reactive CCTV or something for robots

@ElectronicBanana404 19 күн бұрын

I'm currently working my way through basic mechanical engineering and wanted to know if you have any resources for understanding how to design and implement mechanical movements into projects.

@marlipin1973 Ай бұрын

Hey Will Cogley, is there any way to make it in different sizes and with only the top eyelid each eye? I'm trying to develop some animatronic things.

@user-mg3cc5wv9q 13 күн бұрын

could you list all the components required for your pcb cheers

@anthonysmechanics Ай бұрын

THIS IS A LIFE SAVER. I was literally making the old one but needed a part. But with this I could just make it super fast. I love your projects and you should make it paid because this is awesome and all your ideas are awesome.

@aserta Ай бұрын

If you haven't read them yet, go dig the Designing Plastic Parts for Assembly books for knowledge. Should act as very good supplement for this kind of stuff (even if not within the same tech tree as 3D printing). Neat stuff regardless!

@ericmunschi4655 Ай бұрын

Had a led inside the eye , and you could had "Goaul'd " effect or that kind of scaring effect 😂👍👍👍

@NotaPerson-jc6px 17 күн бұрын

could we please have the stl for the eyes please love the channel

@JaymeEduardo 23 күн бұрын

Paint the eyes with rust oleum transparent glossy paint. Cheap and effective.

@craiglindley 27 күн бұрын

In the 3D printing/STLs directory there are 43 items. Do all of these need to be printed to make the eyes?

@AckzaTV 27 күн бұрын

Thank you so much. I think it's time for a universal 3d printable fastener and ai to help us redesign models for 3dprintables latched and pins etc... but yeah maybe we can make a universal 3d printable fastener or even a metal fastener that's the ultimate screw we can make in bulk for 3d printers or use something already ready to buy like self sealing stem.bolts

@babbagebrassworks4278 29 күн бұрын

"The best part is no part", I will be studying this design to see if I can print smaller version on a resin printer.

@hendrikneumann3076 23 күн бұрын

Hi, very cool design! I try to build it on my own but when I upload the gerber (doesn't matter which version), BOM and CPL files to JLCPCB the "component placements step" throws an error: "The system detects components that may be offset from the PCB". Autoalignment doesn't work. Have you maybe not uploaded the correct files or am I doing something wrong?

@Embassy_of_Jupiter Ай бұрын

since you value coolness so much, you sould put cameras into the eyes and then make them stare at people with facial recognition. then you put that in a painting and hang it in an art gallery and whenever some one says "it's almost like the eyes follow you" then the painting rolls its eyes

@Lukas-qy2on Ай бұрын

this is really cool :) right now the eyes are also always in parralel, how hard would it to let the eyes cross horizontally i.e look towards each other? the mechanism and eyes look incredibly realistic, but one limitation is that the eyes always seem to be looking into the distance, adding that and some basic object detection and you could have the eyes follow something :D

@wombleofwimbledon5442 Ай бұрын

Make a Beholder! But make the Pupils different, to indicate different powers. Also, maybe make the Iris part dynamic...

@Projekt_Nightmare Ай бұрын

Hey Will Cogley could ya add cameras to the eye just to see if it could work

@michaelbuckers Ай бұрын

"This area is off-limits." "Hey! Little guy!" "I bet I'm your favorite~"

@KevinLee-ui6km 16 күн бұрын

Could you upload the stl files for the snap fit controller.

@Sir-Dexter Ай бұрын

nice

@wreckingball8881 28 күн бұрын

Anyone else having trouble finding the pcb?

@muddlersworkshop Ай бұрын

This is one of the best designs I have seen but have you thought about a design that fits a camera in one or both eyes? Thats something I would rush to print and play with.

@loekessers 27 күн бұрын

Great design. Is it me or is the link to the PCB not working?

@loekessers 27 күн бұрын

Ah I probably need to upload the Gerber to JLC? But how do I populate it?

@christianachenbach5920 Ай бұрын

Great work!! Can you please update the two links about your 3D Printer to shareasale? They don’t work anymore. Thanks!

@WillCogley Ай бұрын

Oh whoops! Should be working now :)

@googleyoutubechannel8554 Ай бұрын

Thinking about trying to build your great design, but you didn't link the PCB correctly?

@pbirdy25 Ай бұрын

Another great video Will, now hear’s a challenge, can you incorporate a pair of cameras in to those eyeballs? Stereo vision would be a fantastic next step. Also Will as you’ve now hit the 100K subscribers 🎉 where’s your KZfaq Play Button?

@WillCogley Ай бұрын

I’ve yet to hang it up lol Stereo vision eyes are definitely on my to do list :)

@SojournerDidimus 29 күн бұрын

Another cost-down/simplification could be to allow for the MCU to be soldered instead of putting the Arduino on. With a bit of luck the JLC library does have the same or a 100% compatible clone. You probably do not need most of the other components on the Arduino anyways.

@ferenccseh4037 29 күн бұрын

For another challenge you could try minimising the amount of servos? I'm not an engineer so I have no idea what I'm talking about, but 5 servos seem redundant for 3 types of movement