Blade Runner 2019 Voight-Kampff machine: fully electronic version

[askernas]

Yep, really busy with your Robocop costume...glad it`s still one of your project

Well, it is thanks to you I ”had to” start over from scratch to redo the basic model to get as close to the original as I can

thanks for that joberg. I want to give the prop justice, but for now, I need to finish Robocop for ComicCon Stockholm that may or may not take place in November

 

[keyser soze333]

Hey guys, any updates to this project? It’s now been 2 years since the last post?

 

[askernas]

Hey guys, any updates to this project? It’s now been 2 years since the last post?

No updates really.

The more I've gone down the rabbit hole, the more things I see that I want to change.
I've been a bit busy with other projects, like finishing up my Robocop and building some props for ComicCon (A Death Star Trench Cornhole game, an Imperial interrogation droid and some other items (still WIP)), a 2 meter tall Orc costume and other things..

Oh, and some work on my BB-8..

But it is still there, looking at me. I made the videos, so I guess I can make a version that is slightly inaccurate, measurement wise and have modern screens in it, which was my first idea, but then I sort of wanted to try and make it a lot more accurate, like Jobergs version (which is awesome) and hunt down tiny tv screens, but that opens a lot of other can of worms...

So, in short, so many other things, no real progress on this, except for understanding just how many errors my digital model has in it

Glad to see people want to hear more about it though, it definitely makes me want to move it higher up my list of "all the 3000 things I want to build"

 

[keyser soze333]

No updates really.

The more I've gone down the rabbit hole, the more things I see that I want to change.
I've been a bit busy with other projects, like finishing up my Robocop and building some props for ComicCon (A Death Star Trench Cornhole game, an Imperial interrogation droid and some other items (still WIP)), a 2 meter tall Orc costume and other things..

Oh, and some work on my BB-8..

But it is still there, looking at me. I made the videos, so I guess I can make a version that is slightly inaccurate, measurement wise and have modern screens in it, which was my first idea, but then I sort of wanted to try and make it a lot more accurate, like Jobergs version (which is awesome) and hunt down tiny tv screens, but that opens a lot of other can of worms...

So, in short, so many other things, no real progress on this, except for understanding just how many errors my digital model has in it

Glad to see people want to hear more about it though, it definitely makes me want to move it higher up my list of "all the 3000 things I want to build"

Thanks for the reply mate. I’d love to one day have a kit with all the bells and whistles in it….screens, servos, motors, lighting etc…I’d definitely shell out some money on that but for now it sounds like a way off dream, sadly.

 

[askernas]

Thanks for the reply mate. I’d love to one day have a kit with all the bells and whistles in it….screens, servos, motors, lighting etc…I’d definitely shell out some money on that but for now it sounds like a way off dream, sadly.

Well, that depends on how screen accurate you need it to be: Fairly screen accurate, then it is not nearly as difficult as making something ultra screen accurate

 

[joberg]

Well, that depends on how screen accurate you need it to be: Fairly screen accurate, then it is not nearly as difficult as making something ultra screen accurate

Yes, that prop is more detailed than seen at first glance. I went to the rabid hole and came out barely alive Lots of little things that make that prop a very difficult one to reproduce. From the small/big screens, the arm, the cut-out top, wires everywhere...the list is long with that one
With the help of quite a few people on Propsummit and the Tom Southwell pics + Vimo video of Stephen Dane.
We should, one day, make a thread just dedicated to the V.K.

 

[TronX]

Hello all!

A while ago, I made an electronic conversion of a resin kit by Chaucer44 from Goldenarmor of a VK kit. I actually made two...

Here's the final version:

I ended up redesigning the entire arm and eye mechanism in CAD, based on some measurements from the great resin kit for scale, but used screen grabs for making the eye piece and servo holder for the eye as screen accurate as possible. These were also carved out for particular servos to be installed. It took me months to find some of the parts I used for this build.

The LED's are controlled by two arduino boards and the arm/LED mechanism is controlled by a polulu Maestro 6. It isn't perfect, but it was a good start.

Now, I've started a whole new project on this wonderful machine. The old version was a simple "light up of static image" in the monitors, but I have managed to find modern monitors that are close enough in size that I can do what I always wanted to make in the first place:

A fully electronic version, which includes even the monitors and their animations.

I've played around with doing some animation and keyframe thingiemajiggies in Final Cut and here is where I'm at with the videos at the moment:

In order to make this happen, I've been drawing the machine from scratch in CAD based on drawings and screen grabs from the movie, and I'm approaching a place where I can actually start building this.

The three monitors will be controlled by three separate Raspberry Pi Zero's with heavily modified OS and splash screens (added them to the video) in order to play the videos as soon as possible.

The main functionality will be controlled either by one of the rpi's, or possibly an arduino, more so because I am much more comfortable programming the arduino than the pi.

Some of the servos used will be replaced by other servos that have less jitter to begin with. They will also have some capacitors on the power lin in order to make movement as smooth as possible

I'm also looking in to making the bellows out of wet formed leather, and the machine itself will most likely be 3d printed with connectors for all parts that go on it and screens and electronics already in place.

If anyone has access to any pictures of the screen used prop (As far as i know, there was only one, and it was built over the weekend by one of the prop guys), please let me know.

I might assemble some sort of kit for a fully electronic version in the future if there's interest for it.

I would be interested to buy that for a University project. Could i have an offer maybe?

 

[joberg]

I would be interested to buy that for a University project. Could i have an offer maybe?

You should PM askernas for that offer

 

[TheGhoest]

Interested in Buying any stl files when available