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Remy the Rat

A software engineer built a wearable Remy the Rat costume based on an idea from Instagram creator @SheBuildsRobots, completing several firsts including a schematic circuit diagram, 3D printing, and STL file editing. The builder said the servo-motor-to-arm joints kept breaking or bending so the arm would not move up, and plans to try a tendon joint next time because the motors are too big to fit in the shoulders. The STL edit was made via a pull request to the shebuildsrobots/remy_model GitHub repository, which the builder noted was done with help from Claude.

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Remy the Rat
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I am absolutely obsessed with rats and pigeons so every year for halloween I dress up as some sort of rat or pigeon and last year I saw @SheBuildsRobots idea for Remy and I knew I had to try it! This project had a lot of firsts for me:

  • First time being able to wear something I made

  • First time having a correct external power supply

  • First time drawing a schematic circuit diagram (I usually just wing the wiring hahah)

  • First time 3D printing

  • First time editing an stl file (unfortunately claude helped) https://github.com/shebuildsrobots/remy_model/pull/14 Things I would do to make it better:

  • The wires that were connecting the servo motors to the 3D printed arms kept breaking or they would bend weirdly and the arm wouldn't move up. So I would want to figure out a different way to do that joint. The motors are too big to fit into his shoulders so maybe I would try to do a tendon joint next time? I have never tried those.

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Software Engineer by day, Hardware engineer by night! I love Iot, robotics, arduino, fashioneering, and anything else I can get my hands on!

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