brb

>>11050688
Good to see some enthusiasm.

Can anyone see a better way of making this happen or some improvements?

tl;dr

>>11050714
Attach a laser pointer to the side of the skull.

>>11050721
Oh god yes!
So useless but so awesome.
I´m going to see if I can get one that runs off usb so it can be properly connected otherwise a nice bright red LED would be nice.

To the underside of the roof of the mouth, attach a small lable printer, have it repeatedly print out 1's and 0's whenever it activates.

Oh! Wireless too.
I should add a wireless card.

Oh god, if it wasn't a crime to dig up corpses I would so be doing this.

>>11050746
You can buy plaster moulds you know. FOR SCIENCE!

>>11050737
That´s awesome.
That can be its only for of output.

>>11050733
Nigger-rigging a transistor in place of the button shouldn't be too hard - I bet there are tutorials about how to do this.
The main problem I see with this would be using the shared power source. Nigger-rigged laser pointer would still need batteries.

>>11050758
Plaster molds? What is this faggotry of which you speak?
It's a matter of choice, son. Do you, or do you not, want your own functional servo skull?

If anyone is good with robotics or mechano sets, you can create mechanical spider legs and control it via a remote.

>>11050746
Wimp.

>>11050778
ok brb

What I really love about this is that it´s pretty much an eeepc in a skull.

Sooner or later, apple will make the new I-Skull

You'll see. YOU'LL ALL SEE!!

It might be easier (And slightly less illegal) to nab a skull off of a college professor with a skeleton on display.

They still do that, right?

>>11050818
It certainly is a grim-dark future.

>>11050825
it's plaster...

Now I started to think that ancient graverobbing thread in /b/ which turned into SKULL FUCK /r/...

...and OP delivered.

PROTIP
MAKE YOUR SERVO SKULL WIRELESS

ATTACH IT TO A RC HELI

>>11050870
Fuck that, just use the rotor blades and put them on the top of the skull

Steamhammer is a go.

Want, but too lazy to dig for corpse.

>>11050880
Then make one. You have a perfectly good family that is just collecting dust.

Does anyone think that this would support the weight:

http://www.onlinetoys.com.au/RC-Tarantula-pr-17369.html

AND SAVED.

>>11050892
In a different state, no thanks. Rather dig up a corpse.

Elegen/tg/entlemen, I love you all for this.

TO THE GRAVEYARD!

should totally be a joint project with /x/, you know, when they arent /b/

Attach a mini speaker and an MP3 player to it.

Play the voice tracks from DoW's Servitor.

>>11050936
>>11050936
/g/ might be the better option.

>>11050836
Not in my med school...

>>11050970
Steal one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAUTXNeUhA&feature=related
Attach it to one of these

It´s now a race against time to be the first one on /tg/ to have his first Servo Skull.

Now I have to change my last will and testament again

>>11050744

I'd love to see the look on the network admin's face when they see someone's skull connecting to their network...

Actually, if we're giving the skull internet access, would it be worth piping its output to a website?

>>11051012

Think we can place bets on it?

Could just stick it on a robotic limb attatched somewhere to your person. Be just as intimidating, you'll want to keep it close anyway.

Next Project:

Functional Servo-Arm.

I'm wondering, what's the weight of a remote controlled helicopter ?

I mean, if we could fit a certain number of fans inside it, it could suspend in the air... Well, of course it should be wire poswered, but I'm not sur it's really a problem.

>>11051057

Just jury-rig a prosthetic limb so that it works without needing to amputate a limb 1st.

>>11051045
How so?
Like: First fa/tg/uy to resort to grave robing becomes king of /tg/ and wins a first class trip to an asylum?

>>11051061
Rotor blades would need to be pretty big, plus hard to control.

>>11051072

....Wanna bet on how long it'll take to happen?

>>11051072
It's only graverobbing if you get caught....

>>11050937
And some static noise.

>>11051079
I´d need to wait until next pay day to buy a bigger shovel so... I´ll say Wednesday.

Take it easy!

HOW TO CREATE A PERVO SKULL

Lindberg makes a 1/1 model skull for about $20 for those who don't like digging...

I wonder if there is anyway to legally do this with a real skull...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_can_you_buy_a_real_human_skull

>>11051138
read that as tit servo and wondered how that would work.

>>11051076
really ?

>>11051203
I only imagine so what with the weight of all the additions that would be crammed inside

>>11051203
hmmm, too front heavy. you'd have to angle the main exhaust towards the teeth more.

>>11051212
of course, the quantity of air blown should be ridiculously high, so it might be much more of a floating skull than anything else :(

...

I now want to own a real human skull. Dammit, /tg/.

Apparently a normal human skull goes for just under $1000. -_-´

Hmm, how about a primate skull? Could say it's a mutant one...

>>11051247
just take a cheap flight to iraq/africa

plenty lying around

I found example prices.

http://www.boneroom.com/skulls/adultskulls.htm

>>11051274

I am starting work on this now. Stage 1: find a lightweight replica skull.

>>11051271
HERESY!!!!!!!11
You don't do servoskulls out of filthy mutants, only of the lowly and loyal deceased Imperial servants.

>>11051615

pfft. Thats easy mode

maybe we could add some lightweight gas inside to make it a little more light?
Like those toy blimp they sell around

>>11051684
HELIUM!

WE CAN FILL IT WITH HELIUM, AND MOUNT ONE OF THOSE CHEAP TINY FANS ON THE BACK!

PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH!

>>11051615
see
>>11051137

>>11051741
And the buoyant mass for one liter of helium in air is:

* 0.1786 g * (1 - (1.292 / 0.1786) ) = -1.113 g

Meaning that one litter of helium will lift little more than one gram of matter...

bump

You have to use the power of your sheer awesome, where 1 AwWatt = -1g, therfore, you have to be awesome in order to focus enough AwesomeWatts to make it fly.

That's it.

AWESOME, THE POWER OF FUTURE

This reminds me why I love /TG/

Fuck hover technology. Gut an RC helicopter and stick the propeller up through a hole in the top of the skull.

I want to keep this thread bumped so I can see the inevitable result of someones effort. Dont let me down /tg/

I've got everything listed except the skull. Woe is me :/

>>11053669
>Sheer force of human will as power source.
>GARpunk.
>Awesome.

This is an excellent tutorial, will it also work on child skulls?

I'm having difficulty with the drilling out eye socket part. Will my penis work okay as a drill?

And how about those of us who are not engineering geniuses...

What would be the connections one would need for this servo skull? And how do I build a transportable power source so it hovers right behind me at all times?

I assume I would need a usb connection on this power source and that way it would work like a leash and hover behind my right shoulder.

probably the only thing that really grinds my shit in 40k
do they really have to use skulls? can't they make drones out of metal, you know, like tau have them?
why would you use body parts of a deceased person?

Duh, to honor their sacrifice to the god-emperor.

>>11056061
sounds like retarded way to show their sacrifice.
real honour would be to lay their bones to rest,for they have done enough.

>>11056079

the imperium is a death cult

they love corpses so much, they let one of them rule for 10000 years

>>11056079
HERESY! you have never done enough for the emperor. even in death you shall serve!

>>11056079
..Read about saints in the middle ages and what happened to their bones..shit goes on display carnival style. Hooray history.

>>11056079

The Grey Knights all get buried on Titan (whose bodies get recvoered). Why? So that when the Emperor decides it's time for the showdown with Chaos, he just has to go to Titan and he'll have all of his most loyal sons in one place.

Does anyone have any more info on making this project work?

Does anyone have the statistics on the weight that an RC helicopter can lift?

Unless anyone cares how it is lifted and does not want rotor blades, I have a link that claims a flat bottom rotor blades from an RC helicopter can lift 15 lbs.

http://www.heliguy.com/nexus/newbie.html

Anyone Dug up a Skull yet?

Step Ten makes this a little impractical at present, but it would be an awesome 40k webcam. You can probably even buy skull casts with removable tops, but just sawing and repairing would look okay.

>>11055254
Spiral Energy. Unbelievably awesome.

Why is that?

Does anyone have a financial plan for this project?

Aside from the skull which is free do you think $500 is enough?

bump?

bump!

bump

Picture for you guys to enjoy.

You realise that all of /tg/ are now about to commit graverobbery?

Also, I lol'd at step twelve.

Its only grave robbery if you get caught.

>>11057551
I support this.

Now for the hover idea.. Uhm. How hard would it be to replicate an F-35 VTOL tech on a smaller and simpler scale? It's be loud, but you could potentially get a hovering servo skull.

RC heli blades seem nice, and effective, and cheap, but it's more fun if you actually get it to VTOL without one.

>>11057869
I think that would be very, very hard.

>>11057185
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT

>>11057185

IT'S FUCKING ON NOW CHAPS

>>11056751
>>11056828
With a stolen skull $500 would provide plenty of nice upgrades.
e.g. Webcam, Beagle Board, Powersource, wirless card, soildstate drive... hell you could probably get everything for under that.

I could steal a skull, or wait for one of you fags to steal a skull, and servo it up, and steal that.

Fuck your servo skulls, I'm building a real cherub-servitor.

>>11059637
Fuck your cherub, im buildan a servoyourmum

Bump for awesome.

Also, does anyone have any more ideas for getting this thing to hover?

>>11051618
You can use animal skulls, or especially loyal mutant skulls. It's about faith.

Faith and lasers.

This reminded me of Penis in Skull thread.

>>11063611
I suppose one could use animal skulls but those tend to be more dense then a human skull and weigh more. This would cause issues for the hovering. You would need a larger motor for it.

BUT I see why an animal skull is appealing, it has more area that can be filled with useful peripherals.

And also the human skull has the coolness factor that the animal skull does not. Plus it is more canonically correct.

>>11064510
Peripherals yes, but computing power no. You need the large human cranial space to house your processors and such, as animals don't have enough empty space/boney bits ratio to be efficient in that regard.

How about this for a servo skull?

One would just need to be good at plaster molding and sculpting.

>>11064550
What do you suggest for processing power? Is the Beagle board the best option?

>>11051958
Solution: use something lighter then, like hydrogen. Just be careful or it could explode.

>>11063557
Try kitting in a propeller from a small model helicopter. I'm not sure how much a skull weighs, but it should be possible.

I'd be so willing to have my skull become a Servo Skull when I die.

In fact, I'm putting it in my will.

>>11064661

Shit, I'm doing it too

In fact, I have a list of retarded shenanigans I'm going to put in my will somewhere

Let me fetch it

>>11064560
this looked like goatse from the thumb

>>11064638

You would have to position it correctly though. If it isn't above the center of mass, your skull will just veer off course and into the nearest surface.

And the Aerodynamics of that would be a pain... I'm not sure it could do much more than hover.

Would be better to make a Blimp-like thing to lift it, that doesn't add all of these problems.

I have looked. You would need a RC helicopter motor and propellers that can lift about 10 -15 lbs. You will be cramming a lot of stuff in that skull. It will weigh a fair amount. This is including the motor weight and the power source (Assuming you go with the solar panel usb power)

>>11064815
The problem with a lifter blimp is that it will have a blimp suspended above it. If there was a way to keep the hydrogen pocket inside the skull itself and have it hover of its own volition that would be awesome. Keeping it suspended from a balloon would look less menacing.

>>11064689
Bracing for awesome.

>>11064838
Meant Blimp-like as in using Lighter-than-air gasses to keep it up. Might using a plastic skull (To save on weight, I know it's heresy already) to which, after you add in the other bits, you insert a few helium/hydrogen bladders into the open spaces and a larger (But still semi-hideable) one beneath it? You might have to mount the board and such lower down so that the top is more buoyant than the bottom, but it might work.

>>11064723
Shit, it does.

GODDAMMIT

Acoustic levitation, canceling frequencies, 4 "boosters" for steering

>>11064614
I was gonna to say how putting lots of circuitry and flamable gas together is a bad idea, but the skull exploding would be pretty bitchin' now that I think about it

>>11065447
SKULL GRENADES.

For when normal grenades aren't grimdark enough.

Real men go out and make their own cherubim,

Brb, going to africa to get a few dead babies to stuff full of electronics.

you could just support it with a bunch of flexible hoses and tubing. not to mention you could put USB sticks in the ends, and god knows what other gadgets.

inb4fleshlight

>>11065835
Fleshlight.

>>11065835
>>11065904
Gives a new meaning to skull-fucking, amirite?

so where is the servo skull. i'm fucking waiting here.

We need counter rotating propeller to make it float,but i think the biggest problem would be the battery.
About the maneuverability, we can use a design like the F-22 (i think) with some sort of "flaps" at the engine exhaust to partially deflect the thrust and make it move.
But here arise another problem...we need some sort of gyroscopy.
I would love a pet Servo_Skull :D

>>11067392

I have solved the power issue. IF you have a USB hub connected to the Microphone and Camera then you will still have extra spots for this Bad Boy.

http://www.kiwichoice.com/portable-chargers/kiwi-u-powered

It is a solar power panel that connects via USB to the Beagle Board which can transmit power to the rest of the gadgets.

However one would have to let it charge and find a rechargeable battery to store the energy between uses.

>I'm Murrey , the demonic skull! Come here so I can bite you!

I just found out that I have 2 friends who are engineers. One mechanic and one electric. They will be of infinite assistance in this project.

servos skulls are the most stupid and needlessly GRIMDARK thing in 40k

Spain won the Soccer game. This means the skulls of the Netherlands team will be cheaper to purchase.

>>11076635
that would be the cherubum, the same thing as servo skulls but dead babies.

>>11076669

Dead babies or cloned babies.

Dead of course. Cloning is Heresy.

>>11076705
>cloning is heresy
>Krieg exists.

Only sometimes, citizen!

greeks can get skulls easily

I want an alternative step 12, I don't have the patience.

Well if you are able to acquire a non gasoline powered RC helicopter motor and blades that can lift about 10 lbs. then you dont have to wait. Use it on the lower area of the skull and one smaller motor and blades on the rear you will perhaps be able to remote control it so it moves under controlled propulsion.

>>11076635
QFT


But then again I have a low opinion of 40k to begin with

>>11076754
Invent antigravity.

>>11056046
Because making drones out of metal would cost money and resources. Meanwhile, skulls are free and plentiful!

>Servo Skull
>Servo

If you are going to put such weak and short arms on a servitor then you may as well just Not.

What would be cooler? The Servo Skull printing out what you say as you say it? Or printing just 0's and 1's?

Or do you think the skull itself should talk?

>>11078101
have it print what you say as you say it in binary, best of both

>>11051057

Mostly done - but never really implemented. The people who make prosthetics rarely need them - so they just strap them to their shoulder to test on themselves.

The next step would be to get a solid harness and sort out a good place for the control rig - what signals it reads to move, like your toes or ears or even just a patch of skin. Obviously the brain has no "Third Arm Control Center" - but extensive practice, training and use will go a long way to it.

https://bandgap.rsnsoft.com/mediawiki/index.php/Compass_Belt

A functioning servo arm would be amazing but the majority of them contain such high powered hydrolics that it would be nearly impossible to purchase them for the common person. Right?

>>11078632

Well, any servoarm would be a custom job - if you mean big bulky, car factory arms. The other problem there is lifting it - I can think of a few ways, but the bigger you want it to be the more like a primitive suit of powerlifter armour it becomes.

You raise a valid point. The fact that you would not be able to lift this servo arm unassisted is a troubling prospect. I dont think many people would be interested in a servo arm if you turn out like Ripley.

We aren't fighting alien queens here, we are just trying to get a date. Though it seems that most women are not interested in robotized limbs... unless they have a "love" attachment. *Wink*

Webcam+Laser+Nerf Gun

It must be made!

Webcam + Lazer + Real Gun

That must be done.

Travel to Amsterdam.
Steal skull from catacombs.
???
Don't have sex with it.
Servo skull

Well colour me intrigued. How do I get to these catacombs?

I suppose the only thing better then a human skull is an ancient Amsterdamian skull.

http://gizmodo.com/364058/lynxmotion-rc-spider-uses-ps2-controller

18-servo robotic hexapod kit driven by a PS2 controller. Place skull on top, win at everything forever.

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FINISHED SERVO SKULL???

I dont know if anyone besides me is working on it but my funding is currently low so it wont be complete for a while.

Is anyone besides me working on one?

Damn it damn it damn it damn it... I have three graveyards within bicycling distance... And I know one of them is old, got graves that are like 200 years plus. And it's in the middle of nowhere.
FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

>>11089812

Up in North Jersey, in the middle of the woods, there's the ruins of a foundation of a house, as well as a number of tombstones. You go through a large, near endless field of brambles to get there.

It's funny. It's an excellent hunting ground.

I am tempted to hire you as my skull guy.

>>11089831
Think we can make a deal?

jordon_ross@hotmail.com

Skulls? For the Skull throne?

Servo Skull Bump

So grave robbing eh? Anyone not get caught yet?

rolled 64 = 64

so far as I can see the list of add-on's include the following. (some of them are my own suggestions)

beagle-board(or other suitably small appliance) is a given...
so is the battery.

(basics)
paint job's and sculpted decorations.(you know it needs them)
Webcam (motion tracking?)
Microphone
Label Printer (in mouth)
Laser pointer (on side, or in other eye)
Laser pointer on a servo that tracks motion.
Small Appendages
Speakers
Remote Control NERF/BB/gunpowder weapon (probably on a servo as well.)
Basic Head Control as per >>>>11051138
Solar Panels
Sonar Reception
IR/UV Reception
Small Projector(s)
Flash Drive
Wireless Connectivity/hub
audio out/in connection.

[motive]
RC control (wired/wireless)
spider legs as per>>11050895, or >>11083611
Blower Lift
Rotary Blades [Helicopter]
Blimp Lift
A Small RC Tank(or car) Bottom.
Small Shoulder Perch
Semi-Motive Shoulder Perch
Perch on a clear plastic stick that attaches to clothing (gives appearance of flight)


[programing]
Speech to Text
Speech to Binary
Pre-Programmed Vocal Responses
Programming Support for Physical Add-Ons
A Particularly Terrifying Computer Virus For un-authorized users(WIPE EVERYTHING).
Physical Response to Given Stimuli
MP3 programming(for speakers)

>>11093725
That is a very in depth look at the peripherals and items that could be included.

I bow before your collating skills.

rolled 10 = 10

>>11093725
>Remote Control NERF/BB/gunpowder weapon
http://hackaday.com/2009/12/23/open-source-artillery/

http://hackaday.com/2006/12/10/usb-airsoft-turret/

>>11093889
don't, I was fired from the local library because those same 'collating skills'. some of it like the "put it on an RC tank" were my ideas to

it was a good $12/hour job too...

also, perhaps just a servo to operate such shenanigans as this.

http://hackaday.com/2005/01/31/cubicle-mines/

just set it to detect and it sets it off for a laugh. or slight maiming.

anything with a tripwire...

That sounds like a story and a half. Care to share?

I guess I am just not as smart. I do not know how to set trip wires or other things that you mentioned.

Teach me master.

rolled 45 = 45

>>11094429
I am no master, I am merely a collector of data, all you need is some imagination, and while not necessary, a budget certainly helps.

here, have some examples

http://www.wonderhowto.com/search/trap-tripwire/

http://www.instructables.com/pages/search/search.jsp?cx=partner-pub-1783560022203827%3Anpr2q7v5m6t&a
mp;cof=FORID%3A11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=TRAP+TRIPWIRE

Your knowledge is quite substantial. I am going to have to investigate and work on this quite thoroughly.

rolled 63 = 63

>>11094749
my knowledge is akin to that of a library index.

I know where data can be found, but I have almost no ability to use it, and very few other endearing qualities.

as it is, I barely know what a "servo skull" is, I do not follow the WH40K universe and never have. but the concept is wonderful, and equally applicable to the more locally available cow skulls (Texas is great, sometimes...) with the plus that most decorative cow skulls are non-mobile I can skip a large quantity of actuation.

if I ever get the skills to make one...

That is what friends are for. I am sure someone you know or someone you know knows someone who is an engineer of some sort. With the multitude of brain power you can probably find a practical application or at least someone who can show you how to build and create it.

As for a servo skull, they are basically human skulls (usually those especially loyal or have done something extraordinary) that are crammed with circuitry and hover technology.

They facilitate something whether it is printing out information, or a weapon skull with extra firepower and the ability to fly around.

For this one I think the plan is to make one that can hear words through microphone and print what is said in binary through some sort of label printer.

I am sure nerf guns or airsoft guns would be sick but I think I want to start with the basic hover print webcam tech in there before getting crazy with it.

It would be cool to be able to control the hover skull through a pc or laptop and have it fly around visually able to see things through the webcam and hear things in the microphone. And then of course shoot people but that can wait.

rolled 62 = 62

>>11094926
you are speaking to an engineering student FYI

Mechanical is not even close to Electrical however...

I am also a lazy bastard, and therefore disenclined to actually do any of this.

incoming bullshit...
>>11093725
I suspect that on closer examination several combinations can be used to avoid "double usage" for example, you wouldn't need a shake/nod/twist set of servos, if you had the spider legs, or the helecopter.

the webcam, laser, NERF weapons, need not be individually actuated if he entire skull is actuated.

while >>>11051138 does show one way of rotating the skull it has a limited range of motion as compared to a turntable, or just leaving it to the 'chassis' you put it on.

if you opt to 'wear' the skull on a perch or other such method a seemingly simple program combined with either a sonar, optical, or motion sesitive receptor could tell you if there is a wall or person bihind you by vibrating slightly(note: add "vibrate" to list of periphirals) or announcing quietly that someone or something is beh9ind you.

additionally, if you are rolling in cash enough to purchase multiple or bulk human skulls, (or plastic ones.) you could have multiple variations, and name them.

Fred is the tech head. (contains; wireless hub, portable harddrive, hacking softare, webcam etc.)
Judas is my best friend, I carry him everywhere. (rear view detection, webcam, recorder, speech to text conversion, speakers, mic.)
Johnny gaurds my domain. (actuated, on tracks, weapons/laser mounted, webcam, speakers, IR/UV/SONAR/OPTICAL detectors)
and
Skippy is my watcher. (helicopter blades, weatherproofed(note add weatherproofing.), webcam(good one), recorder, directional mic, wireless connection.) [perch it somewhere and let it sit and watch]