PotatoChip-E by Wexion

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This is Potatochip-E, a modular Chip-E based on Mr. Potatohead from Toy Story!https://youtu.be/OkA6rwScdbA
We are two Creative Technology students from the Netherlands. And Chip-E would be an awesome way for us to study how humans react to robots and if it can influence their behaviour. We are however poor students so we thought we would enter this contest in the hope of winning.
When seeing the Chip-E contest, we thought of different designs to make. Eventually we had the idea of making a Mexican design with a large enough sombrero to hold some chips in, but we also wanted to make it modular so people could make their own designs to add to this framework. Eventually, we decided to make a modular design with our first example being the Mexican design.
We made the design modular by remixing the pins from Tbuser (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10541). The pins have two sides, one ‘normal’ side and one anchor side of which the corners are 90 degrees in order to lock the pins into the part you want to have the pins in. This makes printing the parts like the guitar easier and the pins stronger (due to the direction in which you can print them)!
Aside from modularity, we also made Chip-E rounder so that it appears more friendly and less like a robot. In most other designs that have roundness instead of a square shape, the roundings cause Chip-E to be somewhat bigger. In our design, we made sure Chip-E would not increase in volume. We noticed there was some extra space left in the original design which we could use to round the corners while keeping enough room for cables and stuff. It might actually be a bit smaller!
To help those who want to add pinholes into Chip-E, we’ve included a pinholemaker which you can use as negative space for both the holes in Chip-E and your own design. This pinholemaker already has a tolerance of 0.3mm so that the pins will fit.