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Hello
By: Devin Date: January 22, 2013, 9:09 pm
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Hello,
My name is Devin and I am an input-inc.com team member. I run
the website and facebook page and now this forum. If you have
any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to ask! I am
excited to hear everyone's thoughts and ideas about our work. I
have been working at this for about 2 years now and it has been
pretty amazing. I live in Toronto Ontario Canada and I have
recently visited a few of the locations where Short Circuit 2
was filmed. Here is a picture I grabbed of the "input-inc"
building and the bank that Johnny breaks into.
I look forward to chatting with you all.
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Re: Hello
By: decepts Date: January 23, 2013, 6:28 pm
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Hello!
I am so excited that things are changing on here. I've been
following this web site every year for about 4 years now and I'm
really excited to be getting closer to eventually build my own
Johnny Five. I live in Seattle, WA and I'm 32 and love Johnny
Five ever since I've seen the movie SC1 and SC2. He is the only
robot I've ever wanted to own or build. I think now since the
information is open you will find a lot more supporters. I've
been watching the (videos) tear down and I was surprised at how
poor of a condition Johnny Five was found in. I know that he
went up for auction years ago for I came across it when doing
some research on him; if I only had that kind of money just
laying around. ;) Well the only other thing is to build him.
I look forward in learning what others have done and hear about
their progress and research!
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Re: Hello
By: Devin Date: January 23, 2013, 6:43 pm
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We are excited to be able to provide this information to
everyone. I forgot to add the DVD chapter guide to the site
which makes going through the footage a lot easier. I will be
adding that hopefully tomorrow morning.
Do you have any specific skill sets or abilities? I am just
curious as to how you plan on having your robot fabricated?
Have you begun collecting any of the rare parts needed? Are you
looking to create a fully functional robot? These robots can get
extremely expensive to have made, especially if you are only
making one of everything.
The original Hero-Bot was not in the greatest condition. It was
sad for me to see him like that the first time as well. lol
Thanks for joining us!
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Re: Hello
By: decepts Date: January 24, 2013, 2:53 am
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Yeah the DVD chapter guide would be awesome. :) The video was
a little scattered. When I started watching the videos I was
like "how the hell is he going to gather all the information
needed to replicate this thing" and damn if he didn't do a good
job.
In regards to my skill sets etc I've been into electronics and
computers since I was four making and building all kinds of
things. Currently I am in the process of building a 5 axis CNC
machine (for my shop) that the usable area is: X-axis 8ft wide
by Y-axis 19ft long and Z-axis of 4 and 1/2ft of travel. This
is a HUGE project but we hope to complete it in about 3-4 months
from now. The Y-axis will only be 8ft in length at first but it
will grow to be full length at a later time. We have cut all
the metal tubing, got one of the high rails burned in and need
to finish burning in the rest of the high rail system which we
hope to have this done by this weekend. This system will be
totally modular and we have done a lot of testing and
fabrication as we continue to make sure we keep high tolerances
for we hope to eventually make and sell them. We have all of
our stepper motors; wish I knew about the servos before I picked
up my steppers for it would of only cost me about $400 more for
servos but we can upgrade that later. Other than that I worked
at Microsoft just after high school and moved my way up to
senior support technician and then ended up purchasing my own
business doing landscape maintenance and now expanded my
business doing contract work as a at home mechanic for a large
company and pushing another business idea with the modular
5-axis CNC system that should be far better than anything
shopbot currently has out.
In regards to fabricating my robot I want to gather as much
information in blueprints etc I can before doing any build
especially since I'm in the middle of my CNC project. I know I
could build something that looks similar but I rather slowly
gather any other blueprint information I can before I start for
I don't want to waste a lot of money in materials that end of
not being correct in size etc. In regards to the rare parts I
have not gathered anything yet. Some of these rare parts if I
can't obtain them I will try to find something that is as close
to as possible and if I'm not happy with that I will try and
make it. In regards to building a fully functional robot I plan
on doing just that. Eventually I plan on being able to connect
to him wirelessly with my computer or laptop and have him do
what I want him to do and on top of that I hope to build a body
suit that can control him by one person with an emergency stop
(kind of like what they have on monster trucks) to protect my
investment if something was to go wrong. So these are ideas and
goals but I am slowly gathering any and all the information I
can before I build or even start to build. I was hoping to try
and join the team back when you guys were looking for people but
I thought you guys needed people with like 50k to start building
now and I just don't have that kind of cash just laying around
for play; after I complete some of my projects and if I can
gather much of the information needed I plan on slowly starting
to build him. I think he will be much easier than my CNC project
for I'm not having to dealing with such high tolerances. :)
Yeah it made me sad to see the original Hero-Bot in the
condition it was. What kind of shocked me was to also see him
torn apart and on his side. I just wanted to fix him and bring
him back to life. :) LOL.
I'm glad you guys started this form for I think it is a great
idea and a great start to keeping Johnny Five alive. So what
brought you to Johnny five? What kind of background do you
have?
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Re: Hello
By: Devin Date: January 24, 2013, 1:10 pm
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Johnny Five will be a much greater challenge when you actually
get into it. lol Trust me. I have been a Johnny Five fanatic
since I was old enough to watch TV. My grandparents and I used
to watch the movies every time that I saw them. I have been
following input-inc since it started and I knew that if there
was ever a hope to make a real Johnny Five that these guys could
do it. I began collecting things like eye lenses and looking for
solutions to the problems input-inc was having. I developed a
unique and improved way to paint the irises of the eyes in such
a way that they will not wear down nearly as fast over time. I
started chatting with the team and next thing I knew I was deep
in the world of Johnny Five. Way deeper than I ever thought a
hobby would go. This has now become a second full time job for
me (not to say I don't enjoy it a lot), but it can wear you
down.
After some time on the team I began developing a new fresh look
for our website (although I was never a web designer lol) and
researching the voice, sound effects, and sound system which is
more my area of expertise.
Lately I have been developing the head sound system and working
with the IT guys on the team for speech recognition and
generally bringing the character from the movie back to life to
the point where you will actually be talking to Johnny Five.
I also will be modifying track chain and custom detail painting
a lot of the more difficult areas for the team as well as
recreating all of the stickers, decals and images used on the
robot. A lot of these will be available for purchase eventually
to the public.
As for joining our team. It is a possibility that we will be
once again looking for people who are seriously dedicated and
skilled machinists. The more people that can make parts the
better. We will keep everyone posted on that as we know more.
The money does not have to be up front, but it will add up
quick. It heavily depends on your commitment to the project and
ability to stay involved.
The DVD chapter guide has been added to the downloads page as I
said I would! :)
Have fun, and we will keep you updated.
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Re: Hello
By: decepts Date: January 24, 2013, 2:36 pm
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Yeah I figured it would be a good challenge but a fun challenge
at that. :) Speech recognition would be an awesome idea. In
regards to painting I have my own full size paint booth that I
have setup just last year and now finalizing a few things on it
this year. I actually expanded my shop just a few years ago
myself (which I designed the whole 2,100+ sq ft addition) in
Catia to make sure that everything would fit. My father is
setting up a business in doing printing, vinyl cutting, silk
screening etc so if you guys need anything let us know. My
father worked at Microsoft for 26 years programming etc and the
last project he was on was stuff for the Windows 8 phones. I
would seriously be interested in joining your team for out of
everyone I have followed in regards to Johnny Five this was the
number 1 site I have always returned to every year for many
years in hope for new information. Please keep me in mind I
have a small lathe and mill that I've been learning on for my
CNC project on building the pulley's and any other things I
need. My best friend and his brother (which have been doing
machine work for 16 years) have been teaching us. In fact he
will be over this weekend to help finish our six pulleys. I
would have to say we are a jack of all trades and there really
isn't much we can't figure out or do. I look at everything in
life as if they can do it I can. So please keep me in mind. :)
Thanks for putting up the DVD chapter guide!
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Re: Hello
By: decepts Date: January 24, 2013, 2:46 pm
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Here is a screen shot of the shop expansion I did in catia to
make sure everything would fit. I figured I'd show you a little
of what I know in Catia. My brother works for boeing and showed
me Catia and I love it.
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Re: Hello
By: Devin Date: February 1, 2013, 2:40 pm
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Cool designs, thanks for sharing! We definitely keep you in mind
and keep everyone updated on our new member status!
Devin
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