Bear Arms and arm servo mount chassis section for Chip-E Robot

I've always been a strong believer in robot rights, specifically that all robots have the right to Bear Arms! Simply existing as an armless biped is simply Un-bearable and i figure entering this challenge is the bear minimum i can do to correct this deficiency!

This project is a set of torso servo mounts and lovably cute Bear arms for your Chip-E robot. They are designed to insert in between the lower battery compartment and the plate that the head mounts to. They use a pair of the same servos the legs mount to, and are affixed to the chassis in the same manner. The arms are designed to screw onto the servo horns, though i do not have a set of those horns to test with, so some adjustment and or drilling of a center hole may be required. I simply imported the base STL files for the Chip-e, then extruded a set of mid sections, with an aim that they be fully 3d printable without support. Using the dimensions from the leg mount, i was able to copy that geometry and provide adequate space for a pair of servos. Future expansion potential exists for adding a 3rd rotational head servo.

Assembly:
To use these parts, print them out and then insert them into your Chip E robot using the stock hardware mount to the battery compartment, and some sort of M3 bolts to go from the center section into the upper plate and standoffs. I recommend either gluing or taping the bolts in place for that. The sevos feed in from the back. THen plug the servos in and make them do stuff. As I don't actually have one of these robots yet, I'm unsure of the details of the programming required.

New abilities and skills this modification confers:

• Bear Hugs
• ability to wave your hands in the air like you just don't care
• show attendance in school
• ask questions and or volunteer for things.
• flip off traffic (note - flippoffarm.stl was deemed too powerful for use by mere mortal robots and has been omitted from this project)
• show excitement on roller coasters
• fencing and other acts of swordsmanship
• The ability to bear arms with bear arms, which are also bare arms, unless they were bearing weapons then they would only barely be bare.
• Theoretical ability to stir things and eat soup
• ability to play the piano (note, talent to play the piano not included)
• the ability to take the arms off and hide them while entering some illicit location where arms are not allowed (Arms smuggling)
• pro football career
• that fight move where you spin your arms around a whole bunch and hope the bad guy goes away

• golfing!
  And many more! (also the ability to later mount additional microservos and make an arm that has articulation and whatnot. )

  Video describing the modification:
  

  Enjoy!

Print instructions

Unassociated tags: #ChipERemix

Category: Robotics Summary

I've always been a strong believer in robot rights, specifically that all robots have the right to Bear Arms! Simply existing as an armless biped is simply Un-bearable and i figure entering this challenge is the bear minimum i can do to correct this deficiency!

This project is a set of torso servo mounts and lovably cute Bear arms for your Chip-E robot. They are designed to insert in between the lower battery compartment and the plate that the head mounts to. They use a pair of the same servos the legs mount to, and are affixed to the chassis in the same manner. The arms are designed to screw onto the servo horns, though i do not have a set of those horns to test with, so some adjustment and or drilling of a center hole may be required. I simply imported the base STL files for the Chip-e, then extruded a set of mid sections, with an aim that they be fully 3d printable without support. Using the dimensions from the leg mount, i was able to copy that geometry and provide adequate space for a pair of servos. Future expansion potential exists for adding a 3rd rotational head servo.

Assembly:
To use these parts, print them out and then insert them into your Chip E robot using the stock hardware mount to the battery compartment, and some sort of M3 bolts to go from the center section into the upper plate and standoffs. I recommend either gluing or taping the bolts in place for that. The sevos feed in from the back. THen plug the servos in and make them do stuff. As I don't actually have one of these robots yet, I'm unsure of the details of the programming required.

New abilities and skills this modification confers:

• Bear Hugs
• ability to wave your hands in the air like you just don't care
• show attendance in school
• ask questions and or volunteer for things.
• flip off traffic (note - flippoffarm.stl was deemed too powerful for use by mere mortal robots and has been omitted from this project)
• show excitement on roller coasters
• fencing and other acts of swordsmanship
• The ability to bear arms with bear arms, which are also bare arms, unless they were bearing weapons then they would only barely be bare.
• Theoretical ability to stir things and eat soup
• ability to play the piano (note, talent to play the piano not included)
• the ability to take the arms off and hide them while entering some illicit location where arms are not allowed (Arms smuggling)
• pro football career
• that fight move where you spin your arms around a whole bunch and hope the bad guy goes away

• golfing!
  And many more! (also the ability to later mount additional microservos and make an arm that has articulation and whatnot. )

  Video describing the modification:
  

  Enjoy!