The redesign

During my motor tests I hit a brick wall. The weight of the body section was a far greater than I had first calculated and made it quite impossible for it to lower and raise.

After some consideration I knew that I had to change course before it was too late. I wanted to keep the concept of surveillance within the core design of the character but also reduce the articulation. This reduction of an axis of movement was a difficult challenge to face but below represents a collection of the sketches made in this new design process.

I decided to make the focus on the "head" of the robot, or in this case the "eye". This eye rotates 360 degrees clockwise and anticlockwise. The eye is an assembly of lenses attached to a disk held up with an axle.

The new design addresses the mechanical difficulties of the previous design while retaining much of the core character.

The next step is to build a working prototype which is scaled down. With this I will be able to build a working system that can by built at different scales. I can then find the limits of the system in terms of scale.

Below is a collection of sketches made during the design process.