Time to get the printers warmed up!!

In this tutorial I will show you how to assemble the back covers. It is pretty easy if your prints are correctly printed without warping otherwise, you will have a hard time to join all the parts together.

Some of these parts require support during 3D printing, so please check the bellow list.

Download STL from the Gallery

Before printing all the parts you should print the CALIBRATOR, to check if your parts will fit together. If you have a very hard time putting those parts together, adjusting the horizontal expansion setting of your slicer software can solve that, this setting can vary depending of your slicer and printer but users report to set it at -0.15 is a great place to start.

An infill of 30%, wall thickness 2.5mm, best with no raft, no support(unless specified), use a brim for big parts to avoid warping.

Here is the list of parts and the number of prints needed for the back:

  • 1x BackClaviHolder (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverBottomLeft (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverBottomRight (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverBottomMid (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverTopLeft (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverTopRight (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverTopMid (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverLowLeft (add support)
  • 1x BackCoverLowRight (add support)
  • 1x BackHipsLeft (add support)
  • 1x BackHipsRight (add support)
  • 1x BackHipsMid (add support)
  • 1x BackHolderCenterLeft
  • 1x BackHolderCenterRight
  • 1x BackHolderCenter
  • 1x BackHolderLowLeft
  • 1x BackHolderLowRight
  • 1x BackSideHolderLeft
  • 1x BackSideHolderRight
  • 1x BatteryHolderLeft
  • 1x BatteryHolderRight
  • 2xBatteryPusher
  • 1x BackDoorRight
  • 1x BackDoorLeft
  • 1x BackDoorClip
  • 1x BackPower

Step1:

Trim all the support off your prints and make them all clean!

If you plan to use extra servos for the neck (Bob Houston upgrade) You will need to rotate upside down your Arduino and Nervo boards, mainly because the USB cable is not well positionned.

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If you don’t plan to use the servo upgrade, you can start by adding and gluing all the holders to the torso plates.

You might want to check the 3D sketchs to see what part goes where!

 

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InMoov, back holder top

These small parts should be glued. Nota: the files you have printed will look different because I updated them to allow the set up for extra neck servos.

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InMoov back holder Mid

The middle should also be glued. If your parts are printed in ABS, you can use acetone.

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InMoov holder Low

Same thing here for the low holder, Use glue or Acetone

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InMoov Back holder center

You need to add screws to fix the center holders. But it also can be glued.

Step 2:

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It is better to assemble the parts directly on site to avoid deformations during the time it dries out. Use some clamps to glue and hold the parts together, this will seriously help to make proper fittings.

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 image(14)Keep on adding more parts, these should NOT be glued, because it allows you to keep access if ever you want to modify things behind the switchs.

 

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You have the option to add 2 switches on each side of the robot for various purposes. I use one as main shut down., another one is to power up the mini Amplifier. The third is to power up the wheel mobile base and the fourth is currently vacant. These switches are available in most spare electrical stores and on internet of course.

 

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If you had already printed the Battery holders of the previous version, you can saw them or re print my new version. The new version of Battery Holders allows you to add a copper sheet on the top where the battery slides. Therefore when pushing the battery into the back, it can automatically give the power without having to connect wires everytime you switch battery.

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image(9)I fixed my USB hub on the bottom of the back. You can see it is a 8 port HUB USB3.0. Somebody made a nice fix to hold the USB hub in the back of InMoov here.

On the right side (blue) it is my USB Soundcard. On the top left, hanging,(in red) there is the audio jack that goes from the mini Amplifier to the USB Soundcard.

 

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image(2)Now you can add the bottom part of the back. Again, I recommend gluing the parts on site to avoid deformations.

photo(19)Glue the Battery Pusher inside the back door.

 

 

IMG_1997Connect the mini USB OTG cable to your Thinkpad Lenovo 8″ Tablet (see BOM for part list) and place and press fit on the back of your InMoov.

You might notice that there is no gap to connect the audio output, the reason is because I’m using a USB soundcard 3.0 which allows me to send the audio to the mini Amplifier. The USB soundcard also has an microphone input, which is handy in some environments. So all sound is treated through USB.

Check for the Upload & Update page in the gallery.

Have fun and be kind to your InMoov!!

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Comments 59

  4. Nanomole

    Hi Gael,

    nearly finished the back now. i bought another printer so have 2 now – much quicker!.
    the switches where dis you source them from. i want to get the same so i know they fit.

    thank you

    • Gael Langevin

      As described in the Hardware and BOM page, you need a USB OTG cable which can also supply power to the tablet and also connect a USB Hub.
      All USB devices (Arduino, Kinect camera, headphones..) are connected to the prescribed Hub 3.0. To be autonomous you will also need an extra powerbank (10000mAh) and a a power supply for your hub which can deliver at least 4Amps.
      Remember each USB devices consumption is about 500mAh. If your Hub doesn’t get enough power, the USB will disconnect and reboot all the time.

      • Andrea Fachiri

        Hi Gael,
        I am in the process of buying battery and hub.
        I read in the Forum that a 2.0 Hama self powered(i.e. drawing power from the tablet USB port) hub should do.
        Here, on the contrary, you talk of a 3.0 4 A hub and of an extra powerbank .I understand that both tablet (I am planning to use a Windows 10 Asus tablet I already own) and hub should be connected to the power supply by an USB OTG cable.Which power supply should I then use? The 6 V 12 Ah battery would be sufficient or you mean that I need add another 10 Ah battery? If so ,where should I place it?
        As you see, I am pretty much confused. Your valuable help would be most welcome. Thanks a lot and best regards

        Andrea

  11. Ivan FdC

    Hi Gael!!!!!

    Congratulation, is amazing… im bulding the second inmoov but i have a questions, can you recomend alternatives to the Tablet, now i have problems to buy that, and need recomendation to big servos, any recomendation to buy anothers more cheap if not I will have to save to buy the recommended. and finish THE LEGS, i can not wait… its a joke, jajaja thanks gael and receive my congratulations

    • Gael Langevin

      I haven’t found a replacement tablet yet…
      If you find one, let me know, it will be helpfull for others as well.
      For other servos, I recommand you look at the “Hardware and BOM” page where I listed other possible servos.

      • Wayne Kennedy

        FYI, I’m not sure how good this idea is, but I intend putting a couple Raspberry Pi’s inside my InMoov, and then using a VNC Remote Desktop from iPad, laptop, etc to access control. The Pi can run MRL for me, and it means that my access to control functions is not tied to poking InMoov in the back. 🙂 It also means that I will need to create a cover in place of your tablet, as an access panel to the electronics.

        • Gael Langevin

          The covers in place of the tablet are available on Thingiverse. Search InMoov collection.
          Sure having a Raspi works, I personnaly use the tablet because it is a complete solution, with screen, keyboard, sound, bluetooth, wifi etc. I almost never poke in the back of InMoov because it isn’t very handy. I use TeamViewer or even the remote solution within MRL.
          Search on MRL, there is tutorials for to use the Raspi with MRL. Make sure to use a Pi3 because the Arm processor is not very good at processing fps video under OpenCV.

  12. Max clemens

    Hello Gael! I’m almost done with the robot , but I don’t know how to wire it with the switches and the battery. Can you post pictures or something so Me and other inmoov builders can wire out robots correctly. Thank you

  14. loward

    bonjour merci pour ce super montage je suis a mes essais avec mon imprimante après quelque problèmes j’ai de bon résulta après le réglage de la tentions des CI j’ai trouver un ventilateur pour pc portable a super prix que j’ai mis pour refroidir les CI un bon montage merci

  20. MacGyver

    Hi,
    I’ve issues of power I think. I’m using a Chuwi larkbox as main computer, and when starting my Inmoov it’s crashing during initialization and I’ve on the Windows a message of missing resources. I use kind of USB 3.0 Hub 7 ports described here, powered by 5V. I connected to an external power supply to check the current consumption of it, but remains at 0,2A. Were there already people facing this issue? I guess it’s a problem of the USB Hub and not of the computer USB capabilities… Any advice is welcome.

    • Gael Langevin

      Hello,
      If you have 2 arduino + one camera and maybe more connected to the hub, its power supply should be able to deliver at least 4 Amps.
      This is related to the surge of power required by the servo motors at the initialization.
      I wouldn’t be able to explain why, but I noticed that if there is not enough power for the hub, the extra power required at peak tries to draw from the power of USB tablet causing a crash.
      As a test, you could try to launch with less servo connected and only one arduino connected to the hub. If all starts fine, the problem is probably the Hub power supply that needs to be able to deliver more Amps.

  21. Grudé Ludwig

    Bonjours a tous, je suis entrain de faire le torse et l’arrières et je vais attendre pour faire les bras, mains, la tête est terminée (pour les yeux j’ai mis que une camera mais pas les webcam conseiller, il faut que je rachètes des servos moteurs car je les ais alimenté avec du 12 volt, je crois que je les ais cramé).
    Cependant je me pose une question pour brancher tout les servos moteurs avec une alimentation autre que l’alimentation de la carte arduino comment avez vous fais ? (Vous avez mis un bornier ?) .
    Par avance merci de vos réponse.
    Ludwig

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