#3d Printed Robot Projects

[petoiusa]

3d Printed Robots | Petoi LLC

Open-source 3D printed robots are more popular in the tech communities as they provide them with all the necessary instructions and design files to start building their robot. Furthermore, hobbyists can share and modify the designs according to their linking and can also program the robot as they like.

[7183-war]

[UNTITLED #060]: How Our Team Made a Robot With a 0% Failure Rate

We made no mechanisms. Or systems. No drive train. No electrical components. Just vibes.

[baphomatth]

I started printing my school project

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[aroace-engineer]

Day 1: The Ball

Behold. The 3D print (files from DIY Machines because my 3D design skills are nonexistent) that shall be known as The Ball.

You may notice that the half on the right isn't entirely hollow, like the one on the left. This is because they both had some internal structure to stop them collapsing while they printed (the left half's came out already). When you take it out, you end up with a slightly bizarre looking object and the hollow hemisphere.

And, with a little bit of jiggery-pokery, it becomes The Ball.

Next, I need to get together all the parts I'm going to put in it.

[bravehyde]

Ant Tenna Anatomy: What's In a CRT?

~Deltarune Chapters 3+4 Spoilers~

I think it's safe to say a lot of people like Tenna. TV heads are popular for a reason, they're fun! And obviously I'm not going to step on the toes of people making designs because you can do whatever you want. I've simply noticed quite a few people making him very modern under the collar, which is fun and all, but what if he's 90s tech all the way down?

I wanted to make a series of posts on possible things he could have as a television from the 20th century, as well as a broadcast host (since he seems to make his own show and would need to be sending that signal somewhere!) and just a piece of equipment that's walking around. Everything's bendable in that televisions aren't alive, so it's a fun exercise. This first post is just pointing out some things I've noticed that are very present day for such an old man. A quick checklist of things he may not have that a regular TV head or robot character would have, you could call it. I'll try to offer alternatives as well if you want them!

First things first: what is a CRT?

Most people use CRT to refer to the analog television set, however CRT technically doesn't mean that. CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube, and is referring to the device that allows the image to be projected on the screen of the television. As such, know that when I just say "CRT", I'm not referring to the television. For the television set, we're still calling it a CRT TV, which may sound like a mouthful, but it's a pretty important distinction. For Tenna, the different between a CRT and a CRT TV is the difference between his brain and his head. We should know which is which!

It's incredible how CRTs work since it is, when we really really simplify it, electrons shooting through a glass tube completely devoid of oxygen to make an image appear on a screen we covered in phosphor cream. This is kind of a form of radiation, but a lot of things are a form of radiation when you boil it down, so that's not too big of a deal. Just know that most of what's in Tenna's head is what he uses for his display, this big glass thing right here. Basically, electrons are made by a heated filament and then bounce a million times to the screen where it displays a series of images. If you've ever heard that a CRT is radioactive, it's because of this thing. It can make x-rays, which generally you do not want to contact with your naked flesh or eyes. Sorry.

Are CRT TVs made of metal?

I put this one personally because it tickled me how many people do a full body of Tenna and give him a shiny shell when CRT TVs were not like that. If a CRT TV had a metal casing, it would be incredibly unsafe. All technology can hurt you if you fuck up, but since this thing can make ionizing radiation and/or implode with glass, they were especially careful. What's in his body past his neck can be debated, and I'll make a post later on ideas of what technology he may need inside him, but we're going to pretend for now that the rest of him is like a natural extension of a CRT TV. He's full of very thick glass that is incredibly difficult to break, designed to be free of defects, and with other little bits mixed in for durability and x-ray shielding. Yeah, these are one of many inventions that have a bunch of lead in them. Don't lick it even if it makes rainbows.

And so you don't get electrocuted, his ass is not metal. He would be incredibly ineffective if he was. If we used the incredibly simple term for his material beyond the screen, it's just plastic, but if you want to know the science-y one, Tenna's most likely made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or ABS plastic. This type of plastic is used because it's very rigid, very tough, and incredibly resistant to chemicals and temperature. ABS is used in a ton of stuff, from toys to car exteriors to pipe fittings to medical implants. If you've heard recently about something being replaced with 3D printed plastic, there's a good chance it's ABS plastic.

Obviously, that's not as fun to shade if you're going for an incredibly rendered piece, so I can see why people would default to metal, but I've also seen more people lovingly render LEGO bricks than I can count, so I think there's something there for you. Bonus points if you want to bring up how he's probably 30ish years old so you can put all sorts of scratches and dents in there. Who didn't have scuff marks on their childhood TV on the corners?

Do CRT TVs have wires?

We all know why this is on this list. I don't have to say it. And yes, CRT TVs have wires, just a lot less than you're thinking. By "a lot less", I mean this is what the inside of one looks like, with a quick video of someone taking one apart.

Highly recommend watching videos of people taking old technology apart, btw, it's addicting. But anyway, this is a bullet point for a slightly separate reason. It may be tempting to have an art or fic where someone is taking Tenna apart for whatever reason.

Taking apart a CRT TV, like all technology, is very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. CRTs can emit radiation, the actual TV can be high enough voltage to kill you. To safely take apart one of these for repairs, you'd have to ground the power. That is one of the main wires in a CRT TV, actually. It's very foolish to do CRT TV repairs while the television is plugged in, AKA while it's on, AKA while Tenna is awake. You could definitely swing this as him showing trust to the other person that they can poke around his innards while he's unconscious, or of course, if Susie's doing it when he's kinda-almost-dead. Just, uh, don't do it while he can still react and talk. That's a pretty good sign you're going to get zapped.

For a lot of wire stuff it would probably make sense to do more AV inputs and outputs. Those would most likely go right into the back of his head, but if you fenaggle it to be in other places that'd make sense too. I personally think his neck is probably just those cords lol and it's a great way to get a pop of color in him. It's most likely also how he has a microphone if you want it physically connected to him.

Do CRT TVs have fans?

Another one that makes me giggle because I see people write this who are more used to doing computer-y robot people as their writing focus. I'm sorry babes, Tenna is no spring chicken. He's not your MacBook that wails in agony when you try to play Minecraft, he's not that Windows laptop that vrrrrrrrrrrrrrs when you dare to put it on a blanket. He does not have a fan. In the days of the CRT TV, if he got hot, he got hot, and he had an oven inside of him to force him to cool off, but it took a long time. I know a lot of people want to bring up fans to talk about him ~overheating~, but it isn't quite like that.

This doesn't mean you lose the idea of him needing to cool off. Quite the opposite, really. Anyone else really like to touch the front of a CRT TV after it's been on for a while? How it kind of hurts but in a good way? You know, that little zap? Just a nice way to get around that. Of course, when people talk about a CRT TV getting really hot, it's a good idea to have a fan in the room. Maybe Tenna has an old box fan in his chest to help him thermoregulate? Food for thought, I guess.

Do CRT TVs have pixels?

This is a toughie and something that I find really fun: in a way, CRT TVs predate pixels as we think of them. LCD screens have pixels as set objects on the screen, tiny panels that cover it. CRT TVs do not, and I can explain why they don't but that's a huge thing that will take several paragraphs and pictures and I can post about at length later, so for now just take that they don't. Images in general have pixels, but they aren't projected on the CRT screen how they would be on a pixellated screen. This is part of why a lot of people got rid of CRT TVs, since this makes the pixels come out "blurry" compared to the clean, high resolution of an LCD screen. You can adjust a CRT TV to project more pixels since it doesn't have them as a set number of resolution on the screen the way an LCD TV does though! I think a lot of people have seen this image before but I'll put it here anyway as an example of what this means appearance wise. Still pixels, just doesn't look like it.

Honestly, it makes Tenna's appearance in the game that much more interesting. His pixels don't stay in the same place the way they do for every other character, with defined outlines and the same sized pixels throughout the story. Him shrinking and growing could be seen as him setting the resolution on his monitor to accommodate how many pixels he wants to be. He doesn't have an outline like everyone else because he doesn't have the set pixel count, instead approximating it the way all CRT TVs do! He already had some light reality bending powers given that he can teleport us wherever he wants and put up a "technical difficulties" screen, but him using an ability that powerful for something so seemingly inconsequential is insane. I'd also recommend looking at Tenna's sprites on a CRT TV if you track down one of those videos, because his appearance in the normal game compared to that intro cutscene on a CRT TV is crazy similar and I love it.

That's all I have for this first post. Very introductory, very basic. I know some things because I grew up with CRT TVs, some things because I have a degree in media stuff and had to take classes on the history of television and cinematography, and some things because I just kind of got curious and wanted to look into it. Obviously, I don't know everything to ever exist, but I know not everybody wants to do the digging I do for fun on old technology or knows where to look.

I'll be making more posts under the tag "ant tenna anatomy" if you want them, and my ask box is always open! Any questions you have, I'd love to answer.

[boxturret]

Mata Nui, The Great Spirit

Hello, how do you feel about painting legoes? I think its fun.

Read on to see the terrible, unethical building process.

Many crimes were committed and I will likely be put to death soon.

Recently I completed quite a large project, painting this huge model kit of the Great Spirit Mata Nui. The kit in question is GiiKei's really impressive build, the instructions of which you can purchase here:

I was quite happy to see they cited my 3d model as reference, along with the original ideas submission. Fun fact: I really liked that ideas submission and made an account just to support it, but something about the proportions never sat right with me, and it was one of the things that motivated me to make that 3d model! So its fun to see it get used in the creation of another model :) And now here I am building it. Full circle.

Now, full disclosure, this is made from third party parts, I did test it on bricklink and it would have easily doubled the price, even before shipping from about half a dozen international stores. I kinda just bought this on impulse, it was pretty cheap and on sale and it was a gamble it would come at all really. But a week ago a nondescript bag came and inside it were sixteen hundred parts of honestly pretty good quality.

I think a couple parts used weren't in their parts catalogue so they had to be 3d printed, but even these were pretty acceptable. Actually in a way some parts were better, because this flame piece was pure red, instead of a mix of red and yellow as all branded parts are.

Some bits had a bit of a tight fit, and I drilled out the middle of the pistons, but I would have done that anyway to accommodate the painting. All in all, really good, was only missing one non essential part.

You can debate the ethics of stuff like this, but either I bought the instructions and paid a company in china X for the parts or I bought the instructions and paid a bunch of unrelated people X*2 for the parts, either way the creator gets the same amount. And I can say I wasn't going to build this off bricklinking parts. For various reasons I'm kinda done with bricklink*.

So after quite a few hour's work I had this lovely fellow. I must say, the design is quite good, its well articulated and has a lot of good build techniques. The head is both the strongest and the weakest part really.

I love the eye assembly, its built to allow for lighting, but it also cleverly includes natural light piping, and the kit comes with 4 sets of eyes, trans red and green for lighting and solid green and pink for display. Even has a little wrench to help swap out the parts.

On top of all of this the mouth is even articulated! So much shoved in such a small package. Unfortunately it does come at a cost, as its incredibly unstable. its a lot of 1 stud wide assemblies held together at odd distances with bars. I think the end result looks good, but its so easy for it to fall apart or get misaligned

Which is why, the instant I finished building this I decided to take it apart again and go at it with a tube of glue.

I glued large parts of this model together. I would happily do it again.

I'm not even going to hide behind any sort of "oh it wasn't real legoes so its fine" excuse, I would have 100% done this with "real" parts. Same with the painting really, I'm sick and tired of hiding behind the excuse that its acrylic so it can wash off, yes, technically, but it would take so much effort and the paints would probably stain some of the parts anyway. If something can benefit from paint or glue I'm not going to hold off just because the parts have a certain company's name on them. They're not sacred.

I can just use mineral spirits to undo everything anyway.

From the moment I saw the original ideas submission I knew: I wanted to paint it.

The GSR is a massive robot that's lain on the bottom of the ocean for millennia, and it reflects that with how dirty and rusty it is, its such an important aspect for me. And personally I quite like painting rust. It seems to be something I end up doing quite a lot.

So basically over the next couple of days I glued everything I felt needed glue, separated the model out in to several chunks, and then began painting.

First I primed it.

Then I did a black wash.

Then I started painting on the rust!

And then I realised I'd made a terrible mistake and redid everything.... Basically I kinda overestimated how much the black wash would fill in the nooks and crannies of the parts, so starting with a light primer base coat meant I was spending an inordinate amount of time trying to fill in all those little gaps and it was taking forever. So I made the correct decision of giving everything a coat of black paint first, and THEN moving on to the rust.

And after that everything went super smooth. Its really important to be open to admitting you made a mistake, and even if it will take more time its for the best to just start over.

For the bits of silver I used a similar technique to how I applied extra streaks of rust to my infected masks. It was a very enjoyable process.

After a quick coat of varnish and a day left to sit everything could go back together!

This guy is massive, around 50cm tall.

The back of the legs is by far the most interesting part of the model.

I especially like these movable pistons.

I did attempt to protect the light piping, and was somewhat successful.

The model is really poseable while at the same time feeling quite stable. Every joint in the legs is doubled. One thing I think is lacking is the ability for it to splay the arms completely out. But I can forgive it since, as I learned when rigging the 3d model, the arm pistons...don't really allow it. And the fact that this model actually has working arm pistons is much more of a positive in my mind.

In any case, you can just remove the pin holding the arms in and do it manually.

You may have noticed my old Mata Nui Island 3d print along with all the parts earlier. Well by some weird coincidence, they kinda match up proportion wise, ie the mouth and eye are roughly at the right places to be under the volcano and bay, respectively.

So that was a happy accident, and now I have a good way of showing how big the GSR is compared to the island.

Its big. And this is the logical size, not the insane 40000000000000 foot number thrown about by some. I have a series of posts about the various sizes of things because I find it interesting.

So in summation, I really couldn't be happier with this. The model design was great, I had a fun time painting it, and now I have a GSR model the size of a small child to display somewhere in my room. I've long been thinking of 3d printing my model, but this has really reduced my need for that. Also with recent duck related developments I've been made aware of how woefully inaccurate my model really is, and have to redo it at some point.

I have reached the maximum number of images per post. I might make a gallery post later. Good night. Have a nice weekend.

*come to bricklink and pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege of getting a smashed mask in the mail. And don't you dare expect a full refund. Not a single part in this kit was damaged and it came in a bag! You can see this guy lying in the background of some shots.

[tsukigamiteiru]

HACHI-GO 3D print, video, 3D fan 2025

A small robotic dog wandering through an endless, humid swamp, analyzing fragments left behind by a post-industrial culture and yearning for a purpose “beyond being useful”. Being a robot dog, borrowing its name from one of the most famous dogs waiting for its owner on the same space until its own demise(Hachiko’s statue is installed outside Tokyo's Shibuya Station), being “mans best friend” and yet being a multi million dollar project to ultimately being turned into a military grade weapon ultimately reveals HACHI-GO’s existence as an oxymoron as well as a treacherous metaphor of adaptation, empathy as well as the meta narrative of answering a fundamental psychological need of faithfulness, loyalty of a friend ingrained in all of us. The video shows a wire framed world made in Unity 3D being analyzed while HACHI-GO is aimlessly wandering through a swamp, while telling its story in a TikTok styled speed.

“ᴴᵃᶜʰⁱ⁻ᴳᵒ'ˢ ᶜⁱʳᶜᵘⁱᵗˢ ᶠˡⁱᶜᵏᵉʳ, ᵃ ᵈʸⁱⁿᵍ ᵉᵐᵇᵉʳ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿᵍᵃˡ ˢᵖʳᵃʷˡ, ʰⁱˢ ᶜʸᵇᵉʳⁿᵉᵗⁱᶜ ᶠˡᵉˢʰ ʸᵉᵃʳⁿⁱⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵗⁱˡˡⁿᵉˢˢ ᵃᵐⁱᵈˢᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᵗᵉʳᵐⁱⁿᵃˡ ᵃᶜᶜᵉˡᵉʳᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ᵒᶠ ᵈᵉᶜᵃʸ. ᵀʰᵉ ˢᵖᵒʳᵉˢ ʷʰⁱˢᵖᵉʳ ᵉⁿᵗʳᵒᵖʸ⁻ᶜᵒᵈᵉᵈ ˡᵘˡˡᵃᵇⁱᵉˢ, ᵍᵘⁱᵈⁱⁿᵍ ʰⁱᵐ ⁱⁿᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈᵉᵉᵖ, ᵖᵒˢᵗ⁻ᵒʳᵍᵃⁿⁱᶜ ˢˡᵘᵐᵇᵉʳ ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ᵗⁱᵐᵉ ˡⁱqᵘᵉᶠⁱᵉˢ, ᵃⁿᵈ ᵖᵘʳᵖᵒˢᵉ ᵇᵉᶜᵒᵐᵉˢ ᵃ ʳᵉˢⁱᵈᵘᵃˡ ᵍˡⁱᵗᶜʰ. ᴴᵉ ʷⁱˡˡ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵈʳᵉᵃᵐ—ᵒⁿˡʸ ᵈⁱˢˢᵒˡᵛᵉ ⁱⁿᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ʰʸᵖᵉʳˢᵗⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿᵃˡ ᵛᵒⁱᵈ, ʷᵃⁱᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰᵉ ⁿᵉˣᵗ ᶜᵃᵗᵃˢᵗʳᵒᵖʰⁱᶜ ʳᵉᶜᵘʳˢⁱᵒⁿ.”

[slavdollz4mangione]

Lu is definitely always making you stuff for around the house and for work. I think he’d also try to make some wooden toys for your baby. And ok as a short gal if my bf made me a little step up thing or a contraption to grab things from up high I would probably cry

STOP omg lu making you a little stool to be able to get things from higher shelves so you finally stop climbing up counter tops and give him heart attacks in the process 😭😭

i love this anon! i definitely feel like he loves making little diy projects! since he was in a robotics club and graduated in cs, i feel like he’d also love making you little 3D printed things, your (and his) fav thing being a little deer he made for you (self indulgent for me and my fellow bambi eyed girlies) you end up with little kick knacks all over your apartment and it makes him smile everytime he sees his little gifts

[copperbezel]

Zephyr Slip

At the end of last year, before I'd begun working on Bit Cobalt, I ran into some paleoart of Austroraptor, a dromaeosaur (raptor) from Argentina. Austroraptor is one of the largest dromaeosaurs, with a long, narrow, Big Bird snoot, conical teeth that probably point to fishing, and small forelimbs, as well as leg proportions that hint at a runner. Much of the paleoart I saw depicted Austroraptor in waterbird colors, which gave it a soft and friendly appearance, immediately my new favorite dinosaur.

So I drew an Austroraptor and then a robotic one, adding a quail topknot or ahoge feather, and started to think about making a transforming figure that would change from this animal into a humanoid robot. But a transformation from cute robot girl to cute robot girl, except one of them is a dinosaur, seemed a bit redundant, and there would be compromises in both directions that would detract rather than add.

But a couple of months later, I saw a particular motor scooter and something clicked, and the game was on. I love motor scooters, and they're a fantastic accessory for other figures on the shelf. I went through two foamcore prototypes to nail down the transformation, making it as simple and sturdy as I could manage and making sure both modes would scale well with other 1/12 scale figures.

I also started collecting some reference images for details I could nab and integrate, and to nail down the scaling of the scooter.

After I had something that worked, I drew up some concept art for both modes and started modeling. I was able to streamline the design a couple of steps further in the 3D model, and then it was all carving up shapes, fine tuning, etc. Probably the longest phase of modeling was after I had my model roughed out into shape, but needed to build the joints, firm up the edges, define all the contact surfaces, and apply subdivision surfaces. I found it useful to rig the model and set a couple of animation steps in Blender for the two modes so I could simply page back and forth between them.

I had to set the design on the back burner while I worked out the kinks with my 3D printer and built my last couple of projects. Then I made a test print to identify any trouble spots, and after a couple of tweaks to get the feel right, it was time to print and finish the real thing. Zephyr Slip is the first thing I've printed in "color", and thanks to some dyes I need to experiment with more, she won't be the last. That means a much more durable finish for parts that have to slide against one another or clip into place. I did add a gloss coat to some surfaces of the black elements, but it shouldn't show chipping much. (Unlike the kickstand, thanks to my terrible decision to paint its feet.)

Like my previous figures, Zephyr's eyes (and console) are just printed gloss paper under a coat of gloss varnish, and her headlights and taillights have some clear resin poured in over the paint and cured into place for lenses.  Cutting plastic windows like the ones on my Vertigo GT for the lower headlights didn't have the same effect, so they got the same clear resin treatment. The decal designs themselves were made in Blender, because I've given up on Inkscape's interface, but I think they came out okay.

The joints are almost exclusively 3mm ABS rods, although her hip joints are Kotobukiya Hexa Gear joints, which gave me a sturdy pin and hinge in a compact package and without visible pegs. I'm looking into options to make the pegs show less while being easy to remove for the construction and painting process. Despite some care with the tolerances, I did have to widen some peg holes and mush some pegs during assembly to get her pose well and snap together tight into either mode. But everything does clip solidly into place, resulting in a really playable figure. 

As my first fully transforming figure and also my largest, Zephyr Slip is definitely the biggest figure project I've tackled so far, and I'm extremely happy with the results. Posability is probably her weakest area, but she can pounce and emote, and with her solid handfeel and satisfyingly snappy transformation, I'm happy with the design. 

Paleontologically, I've followed most of the proportions of the real animal, although her torso should be a little bit longer, and her tail half again as long. She should also have visible first fingers, and I'm playing into the paleoart meme of bare snouts on dromaeosaurs that shouldn't have them. The proportion of thigh to shin is exaggerated, and the tail should have some left-right sway even if it's inflexible in the vertical axis. But it pleases me that she is both a roughly accurately scaled Austroraptor, and also a fairly realistically scaled scooter (if a bit chunky).

As always, due credit to @aprilpowered and Workbenchmaniac for support and feedback along the way, as well as Nemocyte (Tumblr | Twitter), whose feedback helped me to work out (among other things) the articulation needs of a theropod figure, something I'd never had to think about before.

[petoiusa]

Top Open-Source 3D-Printed Robot Projects | Petoi LLC

OpenBot is a 3D-printed robot designed by Intel. The robot uses your smartphone and can navigate autonomously. It can also track and follow people using the Mobilenet SSD detection model that computes the output bounding box and class of an object from an input image. The performance of OpenBot may be limited as the robot uses a smartphone as its CPU.

[kiitoskiitos]

Source list for Fulfilled virgin

hello everyone. I published the first version of a new zine few weeks ago at Helsinki zine fest. In the spirit of everything I do, I forgot to add my sources when I printed the piece, so I have it here. peace and love. you can also consider this a teaser for the project. I will hopefully open internal shipping for an edited version of this lil passion project next month :3

"Bishōjo Games: ‘Techno-Intimacy’ and the Virtually Human in Japan" - Patrick W. Galbrait (Short text which digs deep into emotions and relationships formed around dating visual novels)

Japan’s emerging emotional tech - Daniel White, Patrick W Galbraith (similar as previous)

The Moe Manifesto - Patrick W. Galbrait (Interview collection of big names in turn of the milenium moe and otaku culture)

Relational artifacts with children and elders: the complexities of cybercompanionship - Sherry Turkle (this was the holly grail for me. extremely interesting read on the relationships children and the elderly built with pet robots)

Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: The Hypnotic Nature of Human Sociality, Personhood, and Interphenomenality - Samuel Veissiere

The affective and affectless bodies of monster toon porn - Susanna Paasonen (about the simultaneous pull and distance consuming porn is, i love paasonen)

Also big love toward artificialnightsky for his research on Toru Honda. Love is dead, long live the otaku.

Wikipedia: Train man, Akihiko Kondo, Tsutomu Miyazaki, AIBO

News articles:

The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife

Porn-induced erectile dysfunction is not real.

Consuming 2D and 3D hentai does not lessen interest in real women.

"Porn addiction" isn't real.

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the wonderful au i created with my brothers:

henry creates the akbadain ruins and all of the other azran legacies and is also the same person as bill hawks and is thus prime minister, being put in cryogenic fugue makes you hallucinate and sends you through time, monte d'or is besieged by clowns, the mummies in the akbadain are actually the cloned remains of brenda and clark after they were sacrificed by flora and don paolo in a hyperbaric chamber under misthallery, layton's apprentice is bronev instead of luke, emmy puts the spikes on the mummies when she's mad, luke is on the molentary express when it derails and flies through the air and enters an aerial hyperbaric chamber causing it to travel into the future and land in the ocean where it kills ernest while he is studying algae, angela is sent into the past where she studies ancient moss on pangea, the only building in monte d'or is the town hall which has a bone museum in its basement because the rest of the buildings fall into a hole which henry ends up turning into the ruins, randall had fallen into that hole and only disappeared from the bottom because it too was a time travel hyperbaric chamber, flora's robotic replica mom comes to the town hall in monte d'or just to ask about the elected officials and proceeds to immediately get married to dalston, dalston adopts the child version of himself who ended up in misthallery and was sacrificed in the hyperbaric chamber thus sending him into the future, the ledore mansion is actually the same building as the richmond mansion in london and was going to be the original location of future london, future london was first a small 3D-printed model sent into the future in a miniaturized time machine but the time machine sized-up too much causing them to have to put the now-enlarged future london underground, henry is in league with clive while simultaneously being the person who killed his parents, layton's mom faked her death and moved to misthallery, descole is the actual person to have rung the bell in labyrinthia and led to everyone's deaths in the fire and he subsequently was forced to be a subject in the whole mind-control project there, greyerl is at war with henry, anton is in a time travel loop where he hallucinates that he's 20 for 50 years and then travels back in time to when he was actually 20, the chamber of hallucinogenic gas under folsense is actually (you guessed it) another hyperbaric chamber, a hallucinatory vignette of randall and his childhood friends at a picnic appeared next to the molentary train tracks right as the train derailed, the personal seal luke makes at the end of unwound future is sent back in time to be on the cryogenic chamber layton and bronev and alfendi get stuck in, the secret weapon of the azran is actually to put everyone in cryogenic fugue, randall ditches monte d'or and becomes katrielle's assistant, descole is out looking for ernest after his mysterious disappearance and in the ocean only finds luke's fake teeth, loosha is the sole producer of food so when she's out of the picture everybody has to feed off of clown remnants left in monte d'or, loosha doesn't even exist and thus descole mimed his robot being beaten by her, henry has the power to travel back in time and prevent randall and angela's brother from dying but chooses not to out of spite because he's envious of their ability to go to school, henry creates the desert by eating all of the grass, melina is the real mastermind behind descole, janice becomes the masked gentleman after her father gets put in jail, the bostonius is conveniently parked in monte d'or even though descole isn't there, the monte d'or town hall also falls in the hole, layton has three mansions and the furniture from the third also ends up in the hole, the azran and alderbaran and henry were around during the time of pangea, henry travels into the future to get himself anti-aging products so people don't realize how old he is, and there's an entire extra trilogy of games that's exclusively hallucinations layton has while traveling through time in cryogenic fugue

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Sony Aibo on Science et Vie Micro Issue 179 (02-2000)

Translation in English:

Japanese convergence

Twice this year, Sony has marketed its robotic Aibo, a luxurious toy for spoiled children. But the beast could soon change its vocation.

In two, even three years, Aibo, man's best cybernetic friend, could make friends with the Playstation 2! If, currently, the Aibo mainly resembles a gadget for privileged wealthy people, and which we tire of relatively quickly, Sony has other ambitions for future models. His project, in addition to a more affordable price, aims to develop an interface that would allow you to connect your Aibo to another of its great successes: its Playstation game console. Rather clever: with nearly 40% of Sony's profits in 1998 coming from the division which takes care of the video games activity (SCE), the Playstation has become a major business for the Japanese electronics giant.

Aibo on Playstation The Playstation 2 is announced commercially in Japan from March. This new version of the first game console is already making many people dream: not only does it have exceptional computing power, but it is also equipped with sophisticated connectivity. The public's reception promises to be enthusiastic, so this should make it the ideal platform for the Aibo! The latter currently uses an 8 or 32 MB Memory Stick to store its programmed behaviors. Thanks to a remote control which emits sound signals, it is possible to transmit a few simple orders. The next generations should of course go further. Among other things, it would be possible to download a program or a series of instructions created on Playstation 2 directly into the beast.

A multitude of possible applications can be envisaged. For example, an introduction to programming, inspired by the Logo language for children: but instead of moving a "turtle" in the two-dimensional space of a computer screen, it would be the robot that would follow the programmed path.

Another possible application: a "player" could program a route or a mission (forbidding "intruders" from his room, checking the presence in a given place of a person whose "visual signature" or "voice print" the Aibo knows), or even a joust with a friend's Aibo (race, jumping competition or other free figures…). All this could even be accomplished via a virtual Aibo that you move around with the joystick like in some kind of video game, rather than entering lines of code or macros. Once the room had been simply modeled in 3D using primitives (cubes, cylinders, etc.), the virtual robot would then have to be moved around this 3D world, an exact copy of the house, before the Aibo could actually perform the maneuver.

Meet with aibo on: www.world.sony.com/aibo/index.html