InMoov at the Paris 3D PrintShow.

I'm going to post this as is, I'm running out of time and there is too much things going on. If I don't keep up I feel like I will be submerged.
So, this post is not really arranged but at least it's posted.
Funny how french people made me talk!
In Roma, I barely had to speak and would operate the robot almost the whole day long.
In London I had to talk a lot to explain the project and I would operate the robot as well.
In Paris, I just talked and explain everything over and over and barely could operate the robot.
At the end of the day we were washed out!
The french would approach us with caution, but once they understood we were not selling anything, the barrier was down and they were very, very enthusiast. We got good contacts and there is good chance it will bring more involvement in the near future.
We tried to make pictures but somehow the light with our camera was all dark and yellow, very disappointing, there wasn't any natural light in the show room. So I will only post others videos and pictures here.
Here is a video done by Russian people in visit in Paris, I feel like I gave the ball to the robot a thousand times, during these shows, it is time he learns other tricks and stuff. :)






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InMoov London 3D Print Show

London 3D Print Show was very interesting.
It was a 3 days event, so plenty of time to demonstrate, meet people, talk a lot, to the point that my voice started to change at some point.
And the robot didn't brake any printed part, but I burned 2 servos. The reason, in the right arm I'm still using the first version for to attach the servos, and the wires got tangled between themselves and caused an overstress. Smoke came out of the arm + an awfull smell, very easy to recognize.
Unfortunatly I had no more spare servos because I had used them for to demonstrate the Leap Motion in another printed arm. (see video)

 

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3D PrintShow London Paris + Prosthetic

InMoov will be presented for the 3D Print Show in London and Paris.
London 7-9 november, Business Design Center
Paris 15-16 november, Carrousel du Louvres.
I do keep myself busy lately... A bit too much in fact.
Make is organising a big robot hack and InMoov is involved. There should be a bunch of hangout sessions.  This is going to be fun!! Chuck Fletcher, who presented his robot InMoov to the New York MakerFaire is going to be part of the sessions as well.
Here is the link to the article.

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Warm the printers!

Okay, as I said before to go to Roma, parts for the rest of the Torso are ready for download.
This includes the surroundings of the kinect and it's casing.
You will need a whole bunch of parts which are added to the torso CubeHero downloads.

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Makerfaire European Edition

Four days of geekiness with Makers from all over Europe!
It all went very smooth, no problems with the flights and InMoov arrived safely. No broken jaw or shoulder.
It was pretty intensive, but what a great time.
I meet Leonardo (who's made this website) and Alessandro (Ambassador of MyRobotLab), and we shared some unforgetable moments.

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Getting ready for Roma

Wow this is it! Tomorrow we are going to Roma to present Inmoov at the Europeen Makerfaire. 
I'm pretty excited, hopefully everything will go smoothly, starting with douanes and the airports. 3D printing is a major concern for the authorities since some fools printed guns, now any printed stuff can be potentially a weapon. 
Since you could print a Makerbot rabbit that works as a gun, who knows what form a gun could take. 
Anyway, I really wonder how this is going to be evaluated by the "douanes". As you know Inmoov is filled with cables, motors and batteries. Hopefully when they open my suitcase they will see a robot and not something else. 
How does this looks to you?

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New Website is Up!

Thanks to Leonardo, we have a superb website which will let us get more features then the blog.
Leonardo, an Italian InMoov builder in his spare time, and a great musician, has been working since june to get this up, it has been a long task because every pictures, every tutorials, every posts had to be copied or linked to the site.
He has created a set of tabs with more functions and sub-tabs. A new look to get easier access to whatever you look for.
One of the main reason for to move to a site was a to be able to upload builders creations. For that we needed space on servers allowing us to store data.
Leonardo is also going to the Makerfaire in Roma with me and he has uploaded his videos and pictures of his InMoov.
So make sure to check the Community tab and start to upload your creativity.

I will be closing the tabs of the blog when I'm sure everything works on the Website correctly, there is no point to keep everything double.

Please come and visit: www.inmoov.fr