“I’m freeeeeeeeeee”

"Matte" or "Silk" PLA filaments are typically weaker than normal PLA.

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

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.

Great video

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

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?

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.

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Uh I ma new here. Grap me a chair

Hi Will, is that a Hull accent?

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.

Very nice and thanks for sharing 👍🏼

I appreciate your work

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

have you thought about adding animatronic eyes on a rc car or a go-kart?

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.

Nice update! But man, upgrade your life and start using PETG by default. Ditch the PLA, it even makes prints sound like they're brittle, compared to the plasticky flexibility of PETG.

Time to start injection molding parts and sell full kits.

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

This is incredible work! I afraid to imagine how much additional time you put to visualize and render your work, beyond time the work took itself

what if you hooked up one of these to a face tracker and an ai controler?

nice

4:30 uses the lego design!! for snap pivot

I can't help but think, that all this is incredibly noisy and annoying to listen to. That's the problem with these highly geared tiny motors. Really, you need artificial muscles.

Great video! thank you

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

oh no my adblock is broken i just got my first 2 ads in literal years

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

What a cool build! Loving the DFA insights 🙏🏻

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

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?

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

If you add more meat or a palm or some type of bracket for the fingers to have more surface to catch things on it’ll help it a lot, after all it’s basically a skeleton compared to our meaty hands that have better grip of objects

Why not putting real cameras inside those eyes

I personally don't understand the appeal of designing a custom controller for most DIY arduino projects... like you can get a gaming joystick that snaps on to your phone and then just write a Unity App -- just pair your phone with the bluetooth reciever in your ESP8266 or ESP32 Arduino (srsly, we're talking about a 5 d0llar part -- and you're just replacing one part with another that's the same price at the end of the day) and then you just send it serial commands directly over bluetooth... -- The best part of this is that in remote control, which you wasted zero time or energy building, you already have a large capacitive IPS touch screen, internet access, data logging, physical joysticks and trigger buttons, and wireless charging... all in one compact device... and you didn't have to do anything but write the software -- heck if you need a dedicated controller and that's your excuse, you could even do it on your old phone or a grocery store burner phone. -- Bluetooth is fast enough that game consoles use it for their controllers now, and nobody is complaining about lag or speed. -- It's just fast, and this is just easy and works well.

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

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

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.

Sorry for writing I'm not that good at writing English. I have an idea that I thought would be fun if possible. I wonder if it was possible to make the eyes look together and away from each other. perhaps with a small threaded rod between the eyes. Greetings Jacob. p.s. Thanks for some great videos.

I need eyes for my art project-sell me

Very impressive but... ...personally I'd stick to the design with screws. Steel screws would be stronger, more reliable and take less space. Also one could then stick to generic PLA. Assembly time would only be a big deal if one were mass producing these. I'd be far more concerned with future disassembly and reassembly if this is a hobby project.

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

Just awesome!

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

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!

I don’t know why I’ve watched electronic eyes, but it was cool.

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

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