An Overview Of The Robotic Eyebrows
This design of animatronic robotic eyebrows shows you how a simple system with only 3 possible states can be expanded and very useful. The animatronic system presented here was extremely low cost and a great introduction into the world with acuators, talking robots and human interaction. Two sub-micro servos and some mechanical supplies are enough to get started.
What To Do Now
There are many avenues left unexplored by this tutorial, specifically the difference between 1 eye and 2 eye robotic eyebrow systems and another place to go is giving eyebrows different colors through RGB style leds. Another natural progression would be to make the eyebrows more flexible with different curvatures and a more natural movement pattern.
Conclusion
As a simple introduction into one part of building an animatronic face, this tutorial was successful. There is a long way and many other things that need to be explored before having something real and useable (mouths/eyes/ears), but it will take time to get to those others paths. I hope this tutorial was helpful to you and you were able to duplicate it successfully.
If you have any further questions, I implore you...don't be shy, take a look at the forums or ask a question there. I check them out regularly and love getting comments & questions.
This design of animatronic robotic eyebrows shows you how a simple system with only 3 possible states can be expanded and very useful. The animatronic system presented here was extremely low cost and a great introduction into the world with acuators, talking robots and human interaction. Two sub-micro servos and some mechanical supplies are enough to get started.
What To Do Now
There are many avenues left unexplored by this tutorial, specifically the difference between 1 eye and 2 eye robotic eyebrow systems and another place to go is giving eyebrows different colors through RGB style leds. Another natural progression would be to make the eyebrows more flexible with different curvatures and a more natural movement pattern.
Conclusion
As a simple introduction into one part of building an animatronic face, this tutorial was successful. There is a long way and many other things that need to be explored before having something real and useable (mouths/eyes/ears), but it will take time to get to those others paths. I hope this tutorial was helpful to you and you were able to duplicate it successfully.
If you have any further questions, I implore you...don't be shy, take a look at the forums or ask a question there. I check them out regularly and love getting comments & questions.