Adafruit Industries are a technology company based in New York known for designing and manufacturing electronic goods. Recently they uploaded a video to their YouTube showcasing a project that look's like it's been pulled straight out of Hyrule. Taking inspiration directly from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and using "simple animatronics", the company has built a fully-functioning Guardian that blinks, lights up and searches for enemies.
This is not the first project that the company has undertaken with the Guardians. Previously they showed construction of the model with their latest video showing all the nifty animatronics you can add to the piece. Mounted to the eye is a 10mm blue LED so the Guardian can search for foes, whilst the head can freely rotate with the eye blinking randomly. The head itself is attached mounted to a micro servo. Along with this, the surrounding body has 5mm blue LEDs that illuminate the various surface details.
You can read the full documentation of the project here.
What do you think to the project? Will you be tempted to create your own Guardian?
[source youtube.com]
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Looks pretty nice. It was fun watching them put it together, really gives you a sense for how much effort was put into this. I need to get myself a 3d printer so I can bring my models to life!
When the article said "fully functioning" I didn't know it was based off the guardians that don't walk xD.
Looks interesting !!
That is amazing. It's a shame the legs don't work but it's understandable.
I'd rather have a tachikoma.
woah
i want
I hope it plays a piano intro if it sees a foe.
It'd be awesome if it worked as a amiibo too!
That's pretty cool. The part of the video with the guardian's pincers rummaging through the components made me chuckle.
I watched this yesterday, it's absolutely stunning and I honestly wish I could buy something like this
Next step is to make it walk around and turn red when you come in the room
Aw. I was hoping it would walk. Cool though.
I want one to help keep the cats off the coffee table
Now make one that can walk around. I'd pay money for that. Oh and of course it should have a little speaker on it that plays this when it sees someone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eS5oO-AI4NA
Man this is so cool. I'd love to learn 3D printing and some robotics.
...I was expecting this thing to walk...bleh.
Very impressed, that took a lot of work!
Now make one that can walk and shoot lasers and I'll be all over it! ^_^
Now put a speaker in it and make it play that terrifying piano piece when it sees you.
Amazing, but after going through all that trouble I'd expect to see it walk too! Maybe if they added wheels to the base and made the legs simulate walking...
Pretty nice!
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