Ben Heck’s Animatronic Puppet Head Part 2

[@MichielHaisma]

Worked really well in the end. Really cool how you used _not_ a microcontroller but a bunch of logic, timers and op-amps.

[@swsephy]

You're usually very funny but for some reason you were even funnier this episode. I was laughing pretty damn hard. Thank you.

[@RaisingAwesome]

***** I watch many of the videos at 2x just for time purposes. It gives you that old Benny Hill show feel. Wait....Ben Heck...Ben Hill. The Benny Heck Show.

[@TesserLink]

i would have converted the analog sound wave to drive a servro motor, so the louder you get the more the jaw opens so if you wispier the puppets mouth moves less. i also would have added a audio input jack that bypassed the main mic so they can play a pre recorded voice and the puppet act that way.

[@scruffy0mogwai]

brandonhughes7 I was thinking along those lines, but it could be over-complicating things too. Also, replace the spring used in the jaw. You get an unnatural oscillation when the jaw closes and it appears to bounce.

[@allluckyseven]

brandonhughes7 Make a teddy bear and sell it in toy stores!

[@TesserLink]

allluckyseven that would be creepy as fuck if a little stuffed bear started talking.

[@soviut]

brandonhughes7 Perhaps suggestions for another puppet build?

[@CollinL]

brandonhughes7 Teddy Ruxpin wasn't creepy.

[@BrightBlueJim]

In pinball machines, solenoids are kept from overheating by opening a contact when the actuator has reached its desired position, and once that contact opens, a small holding current (24V through a resistor) keeps the actuator in position. A similar thing could be done on the puppet jaw just by feeding it a full 24V for a short time (~25 ms?), and then the gate generated by your first retriggerable multivibrator could supply the holding current through a resistor.

[@garrettmathesen2410]

My brother is in college right now, but he made a big time machine thing for his independent film. It was pretty frickin cool

[@AllElectronicsGr]

I think a envelope detector , comparator and mono estable would perform much better.

[@rumbachumba330]

All Electronics Don't you think voice envelopes might be too complicated?

[@AllElectronicsGr]

Hmm. I think that a simple diode like envelope detector may worked better. Whoe knows

[@roboticmind23]

yeah, a puppet is WAYYY more interesting than a portable dreamcast....

[@jasonpavlik4904]

roboticmind23 yeah i agree. im sure the puppet is a paying project, so it is great to have some insight on project that people are willing to pay for.

[@b4ux1t3-tech]

***** I'm actually kind of tired of all the portable console builds. They're all roughly the same process: Break down console Remove/reposition drives Hack a controller Find display Build case Build whole product Done Fun the first few times, kinda boring the next few. I mean, don't get me wrong, the show is interesting and educational enough to keep watching through the less-interesting episodes. But seeing what you actually get to do as a freelance electrical engineer? That's really cool, and a lot more useful than "here's how to hack together a portable console that you could probably just emulate on your phone."

[@Ederick1936]

roboticmind23 yeah... it... kinda is. i pretty much know what to expect from a portable console build, this however is much more interesting because there is actual development involved

[@hansdietrich83]

Tipp: if you don,t smere the hotglue with the tip of the gluegun, it stays hot much longer and you have more time to put the thing you glue together

[@SuperHamsterGaming]

This actually turned out well

[@chibibobo]

Excellent episode Ben, apologies on behalf of the KZbin community for the incessant whining about the Dreamcast portable video.

[@b4ux1t3-tech]

Cripes, people. Why do you want the Dreamcast portable so badly? Portable consoles are all the same few steps, with slightly different details. Breaking down a console and putting it into a portable form is fundamentally identical to building a portable Raspberry Pi project. All you need is to wire up inputs, find a display that you can power portably, build a case, and plug everything together. There's little-to-no variation, apart from form factor, for *any* of the consoles that exist. Seeing how he works on novel (and lucrative) ideas is much more interesting than watching him do something he's done multiple times already. Electrical engineering is about creating, not about rehashing the same formula.

[@MisterFanwank]

It seems like a weight in the jaw would absorb some of the bounce of the spring.

[@Crlarl]

Some electrical puppeteers use their jaw action to actuate the puppet's. Other times, they use their hands, with some fingers operation other actions. This was still cool.

[@mazimadu]

This guys show would be great on discovery channel. Shame discovery channel currently doesn't deserve good shows like this. Nor does cable television for that matter!

[@bclaus0]

Could you possibly map amplitude to duration? This way if you scream, the jaw will open wider than if you talk or even whisper.

[@jrc4460]

I need one of these for the puppet skits i do for my churches sunday school.

[@domsterling8573]

Hay Ben. Great job. I was wondering if you could try and make a PlayStation 3 gaming steering wheel out of a PlayStation3 remote. Keep up the good work!

[@Merlin326]

2:50 not to nitpick and ruin the gag, but generally you want the vict... i mean patient conscious when doing brain surgery. How else would you know if something went wrong? XD glad to have rediscovered you, Ben, and your show. I remember following you back when you did the podcast regularly.

[@Fan119]

I would have used a raspberry pi with a camera and a similar coil to the one you had. Then have the actors speak in front of the camera. Write some image processing code to track how much the mouth opens and use that to drive the pwm driver for the coil. The only problem you might run into is lag but it should be much easier to code that doing it all analog.

[@zedmanatutube]

Hey ben love the show buddy keep up the good work

[@rm2kgames]

"We'll see you next time" better be the freaking dreamcast >.>

[@pretendingpro]

a oil shock bumper instead of the spring would be a good idea.

[@some______guy]

Skillful as always.

[@jgj4430]

***** The Ben Heck Show : Are you thinking about posting your videos to Vessel anytime soon?

[@NorrisElectronics]

Hey Ben. I was wondering if you could do a video on the Orange pi. I think that it is a great competitor for the raspberry and banana pi

[@homer655]

I miss Alyson

[@JVDV11]

Wow! would this system work if there were two puppeteers with two puppets side by side or would the puppeteer's voices set off the other puppet's mouth?

[@floo2944]

What's the reason Ben chose 1000hz as the pulse frequency for the solenoid? More interestingly, what is the rate of change of the strength of the solenoid as the frequency of the pulse changes? Also the heat would change too, obviously. But mustn't the strength of the solenoid's "grip" on the metal decrease somewhat when it's pulsed?

[@FairPlay137]

We need more animatronics! We need more robotics! But watch out for the Bite of--[shot]

[@donovanpl]

Felix is amused @16:50. Looks like he would take it home after the show.

[@soyrandom1]

Wow ben, i'm totally amazed!

[@badieguwaisem4345]

I would try to modulate the audio signal through a full wave rectifier followed by a comparator. Might work better.

[@anthonydotmoe]

Speaking of the whole wall filled up, what is that reference to your left when you're on the computer? it looks like something hex... I'm just curious.

[@Alluvian567]

You are in Wisconsin, right? Don't you have problems with humidity getting absorbed into your filaments?

[@T1ppa]

Hmm. Wont the moisture effect the 3d-printer fillament, when stored like that?

[@ComeCaramelos_]

Ben cutting the troll after talk with him scared me! :S

[@joshwheatstonemusic]

Hi please could you build my sugested build from a couple of weeks ago the Portable VCR i know a long shot right, I think it would be cool

[@MagnaRyuuDesigns]

Bowie's character in "Labyrinth" is not Jared, it's Jareth :D

[@GlassCurtain]

I was hoping Ben was going to elaborate on gluing with acetone. Never heard of that. Can someone explain? I know acetone can be used to clean up 3D printed layers but to glue? Does it melt the plastics together?

[@floo2944]

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[@StoneFlange]

What brownie excited you?! Was it from Tiff's Treats? I love that place and I *think* it's only in Austin, tx :-)

[@dan5199]

IDEA: make an app that uses UDP/TCP to control an electronics project

[@Brian-rk5zs]

What do you think about a Portable Game Cube or another CD console ?

[@TheAngryScottsmen]

Hey ben can i get a parts list for you op amp i have same idea to drive a led mouth id like this to run a vu meter

[@gaming-zombie1392]

Ben Jr the puppet coming to a You-Tube near you... LOL

[@JRWperformance]

Id add a damper of some type to keep the jaw from bouncing when the coil is off. Maybe a oil damper from an RC Car with a very light oil.

[@kulgan96]

now i get those labyrinth references

[@rcookie5128]

Looks like the Ben Heck Show mutates into "Five Nights at Heck's" ^^'

[@hutchdw77]

R/C car suspension dampener to reduce oscillation

[@dreded7961]

Dustin Hutchinson thats a good idea... just need a super slight dampening... hopefully ben sees this as I am sure the bounciness is bugging him

[@DrFunTimeZ2234]

+The Ben Heck Show can I buy one of Thor moving cameras from you

[@2jzplusboost]

Why is mine last? It was posted the longest ago: 5 minutes.

[@t1iskool]

What do you do with your projects when they are done?

[@Xokiller]

You should put windows on a Mac and iOS on a pc

[@NoorquackerInd]

The motherboards don't have PCI-E???

[@tlbelknap]

Very cool.

[@clem494949]

good job :D

[@fdameron]

Closest thing I ever made to that was my Arduino bowler hat. Posted a video.

[@atraxr603]

pretty cool

[@GamingKevChannel]

where is Dreamcast portable. finish it please

[@soviut]

Cue whining about the Dreamcast build in the comments. It's already been said dozen s of times why it's delayed.

[@iamsuperroot]

Schematic please. Thanks. Are slt available too?

[@datadrianLAX]

Yes I'm looking for the models too

[@R4MP4G3RXD]

Ben, watch out for the The Bite of '87

[@filmgbg]

R4MP4G3RXD [Rampiii] It'll be The Bite of '15

[@TboneLoyal]

Just awesome

[@rohankolhe4345]

HEY BEN WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD A PORTEBLE SOLDER IRON

[@Sithhy]

Because of FNAF I'm now afraid of animatronics...

[@H0rcrux]

I love ya Ben. But his name was Jareth. Not Jarred. :)

[@kevinmohrmann5236]

Can someone explain the term "ground" for me?

[@Daisuken92]

Five Night At Freddy's 9 confirmed?!

[@Clockpie5436]

great now five nights at bens!

[@XTpF4vaQEp]

6:39 Giggitty giggitty

[@TNT_Mancave]

Do the dumb things I gotta do.... Touch the puppet head

[@nathangood4212]

Make eletric bike it would be a cool project and if anyone can pull it off its you

[@JaredReabow]

i am no goblin king!

[@caballeroPL]

Nice.

[@robot797]

ALL HAIL TESLA

[@hisham_hm]

Bring back Alyson!!

[@DamianReloaded]

Well, everything turned up alright, in spite of 4:13 XD

[@diabolic95]

you are eraly a very very amazing jeniuos

[@arifkuyucu]

Mouth is shaking! This is not natural.

[@Ardenup]

Finish the dreamcast hand held??

[@element14presents]

Dan Arden Ben's working on it ;)

[@Ardenup]

Sick. Thanks xo

[@АндрейПолитов-щ8г]

Можно было сделать мощный микрофонный усилитель и управлять катушкой непосредственно аналоговым сигналом.

[@gustavgmcsd]

neat

[@TheDart39]

Make a PS4 laptop or portable

[@koreywebb7383]

Under 301 club!

[@YavenOne]

fnaf 4 has been revieled

[@WeAreMovieMakers]

Th head seems very stiff.

[@caracaveifgf5868]

e muito doido esse canal

[@Uterr]

this puppet is creepy

[@DarrenRainey]

FNaF

[@DarrenRainey]

hey i dont even play it my brother does

[@arik2934]

Third!

[@EquinoxTheGryph]

kuhl

[@2jzplusboost]

First

[@sleeplessintokyo]

69th

[@divyapatel3037]

First

[@someguy3032]

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