At this point, I’ve printed the body and the internal case which will hold my servos in place. As a result, I’ve spent this week finally attaching the ears and their mechanism to the body. If I had it to do over again, I would have removed the rear wall of the body as well as the bottom. It’s been difficult to attach the servos to the strings that connect to the ears while inside the head, making sure that all of the strings are tight enough that the ear motion will be fully realized when the servos move.

I’m still not especially happy with the design of my head, and have been working on a redesign in my free time. I’m not sure that I will have enough time to to this before my 344 presentation, but for the future study, it would be nice to have a more complete and compelling model.