{"id":978,"date":"2018-01-16T00:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T22:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T06:29:40","slug":"cry-baby-prosthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/cry-baby-prosthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Cry Baby Prosthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelly wanted a cry baby ever since we visited a toy store to get a friend&#8217;s birthday present in October. We are not very fond of plastic toys and noisy ones no less. She started brainwashing us on a daily basis. When are we getting one? Can we get one tomorrow? Can we get one for Christmas? How many days more?<\/p>\n<p>Eventually she got one as a Christmas present from Nani. It was very hard to source one, as it turned out this particular doll was highly sought after. She was ecstatic. A couple of weeks later she had dropped it so many times, that the neck cracked. She was inconsolable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-968\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The body is built light and thin like an egg shell. We epoxy-glued it, but it broke again. This called for more drastic measures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-969\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s build a new collar and make it stronger than the original one by filling the whole cavity. I tried to account for all nooks and crannies of what was left and measure every possible dimension.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-970\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_03.png\"><\/p>\n<p>This is what the new parts will look like.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-971\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_04.png\"><\/p>\n<p>This would have been too time consuming to set-up for multiple side machining on the CNC, so it was handed over to ninja colleague code-named johmer to be 3D printed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-972\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Test fit. The button was re-soldered with heavier wire too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-973\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_06.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Looking good. Nothing interferes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-974\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Body assembled.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-975\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_08.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cry Baby v2.0. The return.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-976\" src=\"https:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20180115_cry-baby-prosthetics_09.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelly wanted a cry baby ever since we visited a toy store to get a friend&#8217;s birthday present in October. We are not very fond of plastic toys and noisy ones no less. She started brainwashing us on a daily basis. When are we getting one? Can we get one tomorrow? Can we get one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,88,46,83,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}