vinnie90 - Materials were:

8-9 spools of plastic. each at roughly $40
bondo and paint around $60 or so
Electronic servos were $80 a piece I think

mkapras - You run a business. "Bragging" is called marketing! ;-) Excellent job!

Some of those parts are huge! Like the cover you lifted up in the video. How did you print that?

vinnie90 - The round section was made in 4 parts with locking grooves to fit in each other. The bottom strips were printed separate with grooves in it for metal rod to strengthen it up. and all the little hooks, hinge, and "hydraulic actuator" were all printed separate.

It was all printed on a 6"x6"x9" build plate

mkapras - What did they give you to start with? CAD files? Did you have to break it up into the necessary stl files?

vinnie90 - This is 1 of the 6 that I did the company supplied the models in Inventor and Solidworks. This particular one was done in Inventor. I mainly use inventor to do all of my work. The other 5 were done in solidworks but saved as a STEP so I can open it up in inventor.

Once I opened it up I Scaled it down to 23% of size. Then focused on one part at time.

I delete everything off of the part until it is just bare. Then I figure out what is the easiest way to print it and put it back together. I will then cut it in sections that will fit in my printers. On each part their is male and females with a void that will run throughout all the parts. I shove a PVC pipe through the void to string together all the parts and use the male and females to lock it together from spinning.

Once I do that I will use a solder iron to melt all the edges together. Then the boring task of bondo and paint.

mkapras - Very cool! How did you find this client? Was this your first job for them?

vinnie90 - Kinda random in a way. lol I was speaking on the radio about 3D Printed hands because at the time I was with the "Enable" group.

I couldn't put my info on the radio because of the type of broadcast. They some how found out who I was, what company I owned, and what my number was. They gave me a call and the rest is history.

That was my first project for this company. I dont have videos of the other ones, just pictures. None of the other ones moved. They moved in real life but was not necessary to show it on the models.