Building the wings of the mechanical bird
In order to have a quality-looking bird, you need wings that move and flap just like you see in the wild. These next steps will help create the mechanism for the wings to flap:
- Inside each of the purple 7x11 open frames, insert a medium motor using two gray bush stop pins on the top and bottom of the side of each motor.
Figure 4.8 – Inserting the two medium motors
- Just like all previous builds in this book, be sure your motors are in the 0 position by aligning the gray dots on the motor gear and frame. Once you have double-checked the alignment, attach a yellow 3L beam to each of the motors using a tan axle pin and a black connector pin. Once the 3L yellow beam is attached, add another black connector pin to each of the elements on the bottom pin hole.
Figure 4.9 – Adding yellow 3L beams to medium motors
- To add the wing structures, follow these steps:
- Start by adding an azure 13L beam to the black connector pin on each of...