Looks amazing. From the video, yours looks better. If you plan more muppet projects, learn to make your own. They are easy, and you can make it your own.
Dude! This is awesome. Gotta say this is your best built to date. Sure everyone loves Kermit but that little puppet has charm. Maybe shutting the mouth might sooth some folks? Keep up the great work.
Thanks Robert! I appreciate the encouraging comment. I actually got in touch with the puppet maker and he also suggested closing the mouth using a bulldog clip from the inside. Gonna give that a shot.
Great job. Suggest looking into 2 brake cables and housing to do pull pull steering. I have used that on art cars along with heavy duty Harley Davidson clutch cables and housing for brake and gas control.
This is a great idea! I think that's how a lot of the Disney animatronics are operated too, so that the noisy servos can be isolated. Also, with all this hollow steel tubing, it should be pretty easy to run cables through.
Great stuff. I want more remote controlled smile deliveries in life 🤖♥ It seems a little like the torso is hiding some of the magic. Giving the puppet a neck, losing the hoodie, and leaning into a torso shape proportional to the legs would cute this up, and continue the guessing on where all the guts are hidden. Creative as always!
Thanks Mike! I think I'll try ditching the hoodie so that the neck will be more visible. He has one, it's just hard to see when the hood is pulling it down.
I have an idea list of things I want to make only for messing with people who drive unsafely in our neighborhood. I'll never make any of them, I don't think that's right, but it's fun to think about. This is now on that idea list.
Nice. Want to make the puppet more friendly? at least parly close the mouth, so the puppet doesn't look so much like he's screaming in terror, and instead might be smiling or talking :)
Excellent project, thanks for the instructable and the video. Next revs, a windshield wiper motor is high torque geared DC motor thats already articulated. Might be able to have the puppet's arms actually work.
I appreciate it, Craig. I do have a windshield wiper motor that I've been waiting for the right project to come along for. Trouble is, it's bigger than the servo I'm using, not smaller. I'm curious to explore the world of compact, high torque servos, but there are som many options to navigate through, it's a bit intimidating. Probably just need to show this project to the Servo City people to see what substitutions they'd suggest.
Yeah, I'm coming to terms with the weird. I mean, I always understood it could come off that way, even under the best case scenario. Now I just need to embrace it.
Fantastic. Using the rear wheel diameter (7 in), motor rpm and gear ratio I calculated that your top speed is roughly 1.5 mph. Do you think it's too slow or just right? Thanks for sharing!
I have a question. The datasheet for the steering servo (ASMC-04B), says it uses less than 400mA no-load current. That seems crazy high for a quiescent current on modern electronics when it's sat doing nothing and especially if the motor isn't turning. Is there anyway you can check the actual no-load current of that servo on your model? Thanks in advance.
Love to hear what the top speed of this was. I'm looking into the ESC venue of things and suspect it can save a few dollars (especially if I have one already ordered coincidentally) but the motor is the end point i'm still having issues figuring out.
This was great, loved it. Found you through Instructables.
Looks amazing. From the video, yours looks better. If you plan more muppet projects, learn to make your own. They are easy, and you can make it your own.
Dude! This is awesome. Gotta say this is your best built to date. Sure everyone loves Kermit but that little puppet has charm. Maybe shutting the mouth might sooth some folks? Keep up the great work.
Thanks Robert! I appreciate the encouraging comment. I actually got in touch with the puppet maker and he also suggested closing the mouth using a bulldog clip from the inside. Gonna give that a shot.
Great job. Suggest looking into 2 brake cables and housing to do pull pull steering. I have used that on art cars along with heavy duty Harley Davidson clutch cables and housing for brake and gas control.
This is a great idea! I think that's how a lot of the Disney animatronics are operated too, so that the noisy servos can be isolated. Also, with all this hollow steel tubing, it should be pretty easy to run cables through.
I'm trying to make a billy the puppet rc from saw and this really helps
Great stuff. I want more remote controlled smile deliveries in life 🤖♥
It seems a little like the torso is hiding some of the magic. Giving the puppet a neck, losing the hoodie, and leaning into a torso shape proportional to the legs would cute this up, and continue the guessing on where all the guts are hidden.
Creative as always!
Thanks Mike! I think I'll try ditching the hoodie so that the neck will be more visible. He has one, it's just hard to see when the hood is pulling it down.
It does kinda look like there could be a kid inside 😆
Very helpful video, I would like to do something similar but with a skeleton.
I have an idea list of things I want to make only for messing with people who drive unsafely in our neighborhood. I'll never make any of them, I don't think that's right, but it's fun to think about. This is now on that idea list.
Love it!
Awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍 💖 🆒️ 👌 👏
Nice. Want to make the puppet more friendly? at least parly close the mouth, so the puppet doesn't look so much like he's screaming in terror, and instead might be smiling or talking :)
Thanks Tom! I'm actually looking into a way to remotely adjust the mouth position with a servo.
Excellent project, thanks for the instructable and the video.
Next revs, a windshield wiper motor is high torque geared DC motor thats already articulated. Might be able to have the puppet's arms actually work.
I appreciate it, Craig. I do have a windshield wiper motor that I've been waiting for the right project to come along for. Trouble is, it's bigger than the servo I'm using, not smaller. I'm curious to explore the world of compact, high torque servos, but there are som many options to navigate through, it's a bit intimidating. Probably just need to show this project to the Servo City people to see what substitutions they'd suggest.
@@MakerProjectLab sure talk to them and the gobilda guys.
It would be cool if you could add a motorized mouth and a speaker so he could talk.
I love it, but I think it strikes mr more as ET than muppet. I would lean into the weird.
Yeah, I'm coming to terms with the weird. I mean, I always understood it could come off that way, even under the best case scenario. Now I just need to embrace it.
Fantastic. Using the rear wheel diameter (7 in), motor rpm and gear ratio I calculated that your top speed is roughly 1.5 mph. Do you think it's too slow or just right? Thanks for sharing!
ruclips.net/user/shortseJEcLhjMxso Question, is this a remote controlled Tricycle?
Do you sell these? I’d like to buy one from you please.
Ditto. I’d like to buy one too!!
I have a question. The datasheet for the steering servo (ASMC-04B), says it uses less than 400mA no-load current. That seems crazy high for a quiescent current on modern electronics when it's sat doing nothing and especially if the motor isn't turning. Is there anyway you can check the actual no-load current of that servo on your model? Thanks in advance.
Love to hear what the top speed of this was. I'm looking into the ESC venue of things and suspect it can save a few dollars (especially if I have one already ordered coincidentally) but the motor is the end point i'm still having issues figuring out.
Fantastic job! I first saw one of these at CES in Las Vegas in the late 90s. This is inspiring me to make one.
ima do it with the saw puppet. billy. 😈 im big into rc stuff, and i have 3d pinters, so ive got a big advantage to design