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                                                   Sartorius!                                        Updated:  Jan. 24, 2005

 

                                                                                      

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  <- click there for info on acquiring a Robotic Head and do tell Mark that you saw it here (Mark Medonis, proprietor).

Also, I'm attempting to locate additional examples of this lab-scale enclosures to replicate the project.  Anyone that would want to participate should contact me to get a place in line as complete kits become available.  If anyone has a similar enclosure that I could purchase, let me know, the one I used was made in 1963.

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Photos 1 - 3, Phase II completed, July 17, 2004:  A long delayed project that was largely finished this afternoon; although, I still need to fit speakers into the cabinet. 

Photo 4 - The head (a Maxwell) was built, tested and mounted on its original base in 2002, but this enclosure was waiting and waiting, a few years went by and finally it's done!  I just have to write the servo instructions to sync with some audio track (which I still need to record). 

Photo 5 - July 12, 2004 - Sartorius testing out the acoustics of his new habitat.  "Ha Ha Ha," I laughed, "No matter how loudly you scream, no one will ever hear you, Ha Ha Ha......"  I finished mounting the eye intensity servo underneath July 14, 2004 and finished the topside connections on July 17.

 Photos 6 & 7 - fitting the battery packs, switches and servo into the base.

           

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Phase II Specifications

The enclosure has two sliding, curved, glass panels and proportions that just seemed a natural fit.  The enclosure began life as an expensive, high-precision, German made, lab scale, for those that just had to know.  Sartorius was the brand name which is on the logo above the head.  It's such an obscure name that perhaps one in 10,000 would recognize it.  The head and eyes turn left to right, up and down and there's a servo to control the jaw movement.  I also added another to control a potentiometer that varies the brightness of the red leds in the eyes for those special moments in a particularly impassioned speech.  I also should add a 'Take Your Fortune Here'  or some other slot to dispense ?????, uh, common sense, maybe formulas?  I'm designing an articulated metal skull for Phase III, with movable lips, teeth and a tongue, so it's still evolving.  Stay Tuned, Same Bat-Channel, Same Bat-Time!

Some have a dog                  Aibo ERS 210, a bit slow but it doesn't poop.