vintage walking robot 3d printed Foki robot

You can 3d print this walking robot with lit eyes for very little money. It operates from a single AA battery. The robot was inspired by the 1960's robot game made by DAISH a Argentina company. In the game the robots eyes would lit if you picked the right answer. This robot uses a low voltage / low curent Dc gear motor from SolerBotics , the GM7. And it uses the circuit board from a dollar store solar yard light to boost the 1.5 volts up to LED voltage levels. When you strip down the solar light keep the battery contacts as they will snap in to the battery holder that is printed inside the upper body part.

Print Settings

Printer:

Flash Forge Dreamer

Rafts:

Yes

Supports:

Yes

Resolution:

standard medium setting

Infill:

15 %

Notes:

The head was printed with supports and the crank leg linkage was printed with a raft other than that you do not need supports or raft. I used PLA and normaly print at about 210c on a heated bed of 60c.
The ears are printed as flat disc's, then I use a heat gun to warm theem up and press them in to the final shape. If I had printed the ears in the final shape it would require a raft and supports and would change the print time from 7 minuet's per disc to about 20 minuet's and then you would have to try and remove the supports and raft with out breaking the ear. Then there would be clean up time removing the supports ruff spots. So thermal forming the printed dis was so much faster and easyer.

Post-Printing

How I Designed This

I used Design Spark Mechanical to do all the 3d part designs.