Samathura

I did not realize that this was a business venture of yours. I am most definitely a client, but if you could use the assistance of an inventor I would love to share some of my thoughts on rendering certain parts of the body as functioning components. Think animatronics in the tail, neck, and maw. There is a simple weighted pendulum system which can make the tail very very fluid and lifelike.

Let me know if you are at all interested in any of this stuff. I am very busy with trying to launch my own company, but this has been a back burner dream of mine for a while and I would like to share some of the things I have worked out if you are interested.

Anyways, great dino!

The key to building a fluid tail is in biomimicry. Each tail segment should be solid planes linked together with three cables. One of the cables runs through the top of the tail, and serves to carry the weight. The other cables are to the lower left and right sides of the tail and can be pulled taunt to make the tail flip from side to side. If you leave a little slack in both cables the tail will move as the person walks. To make this motion organic add just a bit of weight to one of the sections near the tip of the tail and then one weight at the very tip so that the tail can curl with more vigorous motion. As the top cable is not slack, you can imitate an aggressive stance where the tail is lifted by pulling on the top cable. The difficulty is in whether to link each segment of tail and then cover the links with a fabric, or to keep each section separated but make the sections overlapping. I would prefer the overlapping design, however it requires much more refined designs of the structure of each element, and would be much harder to fix if broken. I had intended to have the tail operate with neural inputs from an emotiv headset, but a simple pull wire attached to the user's body will be more than sufficient.

Sometimes I like to go off on a little bit of a rant, but I love these kinds of things. Another interesting thing that you may want to try is using gestural commands with an accelerometer to control the playback of sound. Accelerometers in the feet, neck, chest, and tail could be used to trigger a simple playback of sound based on the posture, and walking of the creature.

Yeah.... I will stop nerding out on reddit, but there are plenty of cheep and awesome things you could do to augment something like this.

Good luck, and if you can think of anything I can help with feel free to message me whenever!

I have always wanted to build one of those. I actually have a pair of spring stilts and intended on making a Trex version. Congrats on actually building one though. It looks great, cute and intimidating.

I was wondering if you had put thought into making the tail dynamic. Just a side thought anyways.

Thanks!

Or maybe he doesn’t want to incriminate himself as he is not beyond the statute of limitations

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