Down the rabbit hole: I just got to say, this is amazing work. Not likely to replicate on a FFF printer, but - wow!
http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/26900/How+To+Mass+Produce+Your+Own+Products.html
NSFW
I was debating about that, since it 's just plastic doll pieces, I figured it didn’t need that label but some places are more “American Hypocrite” than others. However, better to fail on the safe side.
I don’t know any public workplace, Europe or America that this would be considered work-safe material when it’s anatomically correct breasts.
You may be right.
Holy @$#@ it’s full of servos, I was not expecting that.
yes, definately NSFW - I had to minimise that pretty sharply 
Creepy! Awesome mechanism inside though. If you find a video of it moving, I would like to see it.
And that’s in New Zealand which is pretty cosmopolitan.
On looking through this (on my phone) 2 things stand out:
- Technically, this is really impressive.
- It’s also hugely offensive; the whole Japanese/manga ‘idealised’ women thing is so wroooonnnggg. Not to say the western view is much better in general but there is something so ‘schoolboy’ about this it concerns me that grown men are the primary market. (IMO)
@Tim_Rastall I love the arm linkages though! Linear bearing with 2 links, at the end of the shaft have another link with a pivot point. That’s some awesome stuff…
@Tim_Rastall , I’m with you there. It bothers me the most that this represents an overly- endowed teenager. However, I was looking at the craftsmanship. The mechanics of the articulated parts. I wasn’t considering its perverse sensuality. Just how awesome the work turned out to be.
@Rojer_Wisner @ThantiK understood guys. Technically its totally awesome. I look forward to seeing the concept applied to a gundam or whatever. Giant gun toting robots are politically correct right?
Check out the videos on the 3d printing process. I wasn’t aware that there was a $$$ commercial 3d printer using DLP photoresin technology. Also, they state several times in the video that the technology does not have the stair-stepping effect because it does not print in layers but rather in voxels. This is obviously false as the voxels are arranged into layers, and if you look at some of the pictures, you can see that while it is very fine (I’d estimate in the 10-25-micron range), there is a stair-stepping effect, and not only on the machine’s Z axis, but also the X and Y (which is exactly what you would expect with a voxel-based process), that becomes visible when the curves surfaces become nearly perpendicular to any axis.
Prints look beautiful though, and I for one find this effect aesthetically pleasing when it comes out cleanly, indicative of quality printing. I need to find time to work on a DLP machine, and I’m closely watching the work that @Anderson_Ta is doing in this area.
The molding process is interesting, never seen a copper mold, and no splitting of mold.
And those robotics, I had no idea there were standard robotics parts out there that were that small. And the thing is running android with a pretty beefy processor no less. In really curious as to how it looks moving. The fact that he claims the jumpiness is just a software issue makes me want to see the mechanics move even more.
But yes, the first part of the post was a tad creepy
Amazing! I though it was a post only about 3D printing and doing a doll, and WOW!!! was a robot instead !
I was surprised by the complexity of the micro mechanics and mini servos, and I had the impression to see very very small servos. I have not seen anything so small. The whole things especially the CAD designs remind me the old fashioned Stan Lee Fantastic 4 comics when there were the tables explaining how the Fantastic Car worked, full of (dummy) schematics and parts…
But now in this case they work really.
This is very freaky, because on one hand the craftsmanship is amazing but on the other it’s basically a sex toy for borderline pedophiles.
@Roberto_Coli I share the same feeling, and then disappoint when I saw the author mentioned in another post that robotic parts are only rendering.
But then in the latest post, there’s a video of the doll showing arm & head movement. Wow, really impressive. The exposed structure much different from the rendering though.
http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/27026/Magical+Mirai.html
I did. After I read many of the comments.
I didn’t. Now I see it is dated 2001 BUT looking at the article then there is a referring video in youtube referring Sysgraph 2011, so probably the initial page was created in 2001 and after twelve years he added the robot structure.
@Jeff_Karpinski you should check the link @hon_po posted before you write this off as a hoax. If it is (and I’m a skeptic btw) its a magnificent one and worthy of appreciation in any case. Notwithstanding the dodgy shell.