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  <pubDate>August 21, 2008, 11:30 pm</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6ejD-iGAIY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W29pAUyKVZ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf3gHl9sE64
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    <pubDate>2008-08-07</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[I do like the work you have done but in all honestly its an anomatronic head stuck on a basic box, it looks too much like you are using your computer as a hat stand for your haloween mask.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-08-03</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ok sorry to put this in the box but all this website is is building a cool cp i thought you hacked stuff?]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-07-17</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A+ Very well done. Time consuming work, but worth it... I myself would probably create a "hairless" greenish-gray alien with a little mouth & really BIG dark eyes! ]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-06-12</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Awesome...I'm just starting to mod and this is one of the coolest things i've seen:)]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-06-01</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Don't Stop, this would be the next biggest thing in computing for all serious comp freaks! Not a one of us wouldn't want our machine to have a face and abiltity to interact! Go For IT this is the top project in my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-05-01</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[looks like a cave man.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-03-12</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A nice mod it looks like the bruts in halo 3]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-20</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[

Willett, outstanding work ...  gives me the creeps, but outstanding :-)]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-08</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/my-animatronic-mod-project-0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Looks Amazing keep up the good work]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-03</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[ My Animatronic Mod Project]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://modshop.net/users/willettfx/rig/118/worklog/my-animatronic-mod-project]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[My Animatronic Mod Project
In 2003 I made a casemod MONSTERMOD 
Just a creature sculpture tearing out of a PC case.
And It Didnt Move . So , I want the next MONSTERMOD to MOVE.
Maybe to tell me that I have email.... Picture people's PCs having Heads .
There favorite movie star or rock star maybe a animal. Maybe like Hal from 2001
Space Odyssey .But, My animatronic Mod Has no A.I. But maybe one day. Im programming
the 16 servo movements into the PC and press the play to play the movements a lip
sync routine.
Well, For Over 2 years now I have been working My Animatronic Mod.
My Animatronic Mod is a floating creature head over a desktop case. It controlled my a 2 Mini SSC II (http://www.seetron.com) this allow the computer to control 16 RC servos.
16 RC servos = 16 Movements .
I made the teeth out of dental acrylic, The samething denture are made of.
Teeth and fangs are made 1st in tooth color dental acrylic and shaped.Then are placed in dental wax .
,the mold is a silicone putty is place on the teeth allow to setup overnight.
To demold the wax is melted away with boiling water leaving the teeth in the silicone putty sockets.
This is called the lost wax process.
After I made the eyes out of dental acrylic ,Which is a molded ping pong ball is 40 mm .
In half 20 mm sandwhich in between the 2 halves is a metal small metal ball 10mm give me a ball joint and socket.
The iris is a painted metal washer. The veins are silk yarn And is cover with clear dental acrylic .
The white of the eyes was changed to black color ,To give more of a alien look. 
I molding the finished eyes alginate and casting them in ultracal 30, Ultracal 30 is the hardest plaster made.
And place them in the sculpture.This will be for Proper registration for the eyes in the skull.
I had to sculpt face in Roma Plastilina Clayand mold it in silicone This molding process called a matrix mold . A layer of water clay cover the
entire clay sculpture and Ultracal 30 is place on top of the water clay .After setup ,Its demolded and water clay removed .
This water clay has made a space for the silicone.Matrix mold
a thin layer of water clay is place and made the core A .
This gave me the thickest for the skin .
Molded core A in silicone and a thin layer of water clay is place in this mold also this made core B.
And this gave the thickest of the Skull. Now I have 2 molds.
Mold 1 is the Skin mold
Mold 2 is the skull mold
I casted foam rubber in mold 1 
http://www.monstermakers.com/foam.html
To make the foam rubber skin
337 gms. base
67 grams foaming agent
33 grams curing agent
15 flow enhancer
24 grams gelling agent
4 grams ammonia
The room temp
73 degrees 40%
Using a Sunbeam MixMaster Mixer
1. Speed #1 - 1 minute (to blend all components)
2. Speed #10 - 3 minutes : blend all
3. Speed #3 - 4 minutes : refine
4. Speed #1 - 30 seconds :refine
5. Speed #1 - 30 seconds : ADD GELLING AGENT 
6. Speed #1 - 30 seconds : Backturn the bowl
Foam rubber can be tricky.
Mold 1 was place in a Hot box oven for 11 hours at 125 degrees .= A very soft and flexable skin 
Hot box oven 3'x 3'x 3 " plywood box with foil insulation with a single burner. This must be watched.
I casted urethane Plastic from smoothon.com in mold 2.
This gave me the Skull,The skull was trimed and dental acrylic teeth and eyes were place inside the skull .
The mechanics were place using R/C servos.
The skin was painted with PAX ( is a flexible paint). The skin was glue on rubber cement to the skull .And the hair was glued rubber cement also and placed.
Hair is from National Fiber Technology ,
Hair 1 was Blended Black and Brown modacrylic with White and Brown Mohair and Natural Goat hair.
And hair 2 Black with gray texturized modacrylic with Yak and Horse hair.
The PC
My motherboard (MSI KT6) and AMD 2500xp video card (MSI 6600)
The case is LIAN LI PC-V800B .
To make the lip sync move ,I used VSA , Visual Show Automation , http://www.brookshiresoftware.com
This aloud me to make a lip sync animation routine. Synchronize with graphical audio MP3 file.
Not only that My Animatronic Mod looks Wicked ,It Talks Back.
(Picture 1st floor) ( Picture 2nd floor)
I designed the animatronic so I could repair it if needed, And the support pipe 
is like a swing arm so I can work on the PC too.
By removing the back of the skull. 
Inside there are 2 floors the bottom floor has 6 servos :

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1 Head Up + Down
2 Eyes Up + Down and left + right
2 Eyelids
1 Jaw

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2nd floor 7 servos
3 right,left and center Brows
1 Nose
3 upper lip wire

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And also 2 servos are in the Jaw for lower lip wire
and 1 left + right servo gimbal
= 16 servos
When uncovered ,Here is 32 feet of servo cable.
The only thing connecting to the PC and the Animatronic is a modular cable (Looks
like a phone cable).
Which is plug into a modular adapter that plug into the PC's serial port .
The end of the modular cable plug in Mini SSCII Serial Servo Controller.
you would be surprise how many people are into making monsters. Ive been
making monsters , masks and makeup fx for 30 years now.I put my 2 hobbies that I
enjoy together.Computers and making monsters.
Im a dental lab tech. for 20 years now .I make dentures for a living.

Thank You so much

Gary Willett
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    <pubDate>2007-09-07</pubDate>
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