Casting Eyeballs

Adventures in Silicone Moulds and Electronics - Pt 1

A strange title, but since I read a Cinefex years ago about the animatronics in Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles I have wanted to play about with animatronic eyes. Fast forward 30 years and I stumble across Nilheim Mechatronics and his youtube channel. He did some videos on eye mechanisms and with a 3d printer showed how you could create a mechanism and cast some eyes to go in it. So here is a series of videos of me experimenting with silicone moulding and my adventures casting eyeballs.

My first attempt at casting.

Now I remake the moulds

And the eyes are finally revealed.

Thanks to Will from Nilheim Mechatronics. Find his channel here

The stl files are on his instructable here.

His website is here: http://www.nilheim.co.uk/

9-Feb-2020 Add comment