Eye contact
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How? The electronics would be the easy part. There's a video (probably several) on YouTube of a desk lamp "looking" at a guy and moving as needed to keep looking at his face, it's powered by an Arduino so clearly it doesn't take much computing power to do. You could even have an algorithm so the eyes would switch which of your eyes they were looking at, have them move back and forth from time to time.
The mechanics would be the hard part. Not because moving eyes are all that complicated but because of noise. It would severely detract from the experience to hear gears grinding in her head.
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Artificial muscles come to mind but I don't know much about their capabilities. I have done the twisted fishing line muscle experiment, but I can't see you being able to make it like that. You'd probably have to engineer something like a real eye too, certainly beyond my capabilities.
Electromagnets maybe? Varying magnetic fields? Float the eye in a gel or something, similar to a real eye so there are no ball bearings or anything perhaps? That would probably require the owner to have to lubricate them. Actually, any moving eyes would probably require that.
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How many doll owners would actually want that? I'm not sure I would. Of course to each their own but I'm a big believer in "be careful what you ask for."
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Well, that's something I definitely would not want to have.
Something like e-ink might give a more realistic look, but that's only black and white.
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The top eyelid pretty much does all the work, the bottom eyelid only moves a very small amount.
On the subject, I would definitely want eyes that could track movement, it would be great for photography, if you could have the doll looking right at the camera, or to some other object.
Or if you walk up to her, that her eyes keep focused on you, because right now, you can align her eyes so they both look at you from a distance, but when you move closer, the eyes are too far apart. To be realistic, they should be able to go to the point of looking cross-eyed.
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I've been working on a project and stumbled across something called "muscle wire". The length shrinks when electricity is applied and re-lengthens when disconnected. It could easily be applied for side-to-side or up-and-down movement but a 360* movement would be more difficult.
Tracking would be arduino, yes, but where would we place the sensors? Tracking your person might be easy enough but to track your eyes, specifically, might be another thing.
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