AlphaLab v0.303

The neck bone's connected to the... chest bone. The chest bone's connected to the..

Uh.... the uhhh... what is this...

Object_001 which I will call centerbracket. This is the "middle" of the new object tree.

Spending time reorganizing the hierarchy has been very helpful. This version of AlphaPoppy is v0.303 and is being prepared for cinematic shots. Soon, more of the physical print will be complete.

On January 6th 2022 @Darkflame started a Robot Building Contest, for fun and inspiration!

Through @HiveCoffee which is a show streamed on The Bit, we decided to sponsor @AlphaLab

Design & Fabrication Lab Alpha is now an AI-in development.

Consider this original skeletal skin here, Alpha. This may not be his final form.

What about the Robot?

We have selected the Poppy Humanoid design to start with,

-- In Unreal Engine 4 & 5
-- In Blender
-- In Real Life as a 3D printed
A)puppet and B)automaton (when complete)

05/04/22 Progress report

The Poppy Humanoid is an open-source print-your-own robot
uploaded by antoinepringalle, that you can make too.

Poppy-Project Website,

Github, 4.0.0-beta, Bill of Material, list of components

There are significant costs involved in undertaking a project like this, from the cost of printing one skeleton, and the cost of printing a second one that will work better than the first. The cost of designing another skeleton that is stronger and then an improved version, or another robot entirely.

The main reason why this account is here is because separating funds for this project creates more confidence that you can see what happens with donations. So far $100 have been spent towards the first print and with a few pieces I know will need to be duplicated, will need a little bit more.

Any HBD donated to this project will be held in savings for @alphalab and the hope is that the project can be self sustaining. (If a robot can do it, so can anyone.) And that means we need more than 3000 HBD, which would run out quickly, even stretched across the next four years.