This is something I needed to say a while ago but for various reasons, including the drama from a few days ago, wasn't able to:

At the rate we're receiving dnations, Freddy will be completed by January. February, depending on the political party that's voted into power in Canada next week.

In case you didn't know, the plan was always to have him finished by Halloween.

Now let me just talk about the boss for a minute here. He's putting his own money into this project. He's not got a lot of money - he's lower middle class if middle class at all. But the money not used for living expenses, such as food and rent, it goes all to finishing Freddy.

He can't do this by himself like this. The money we're getting just isn't enough to complete him in time. The pictures we post are to keep the subreddit and other sites active and prove that, yknow, we're using it all for him. But that doesn't mean we're doing okay financially. Far from it.

If you want Freddy done on time, you have to donate. If you don't have money, you need to help us reach out to people that do. We've got Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook - if you think that you have one follower on any of these sites that's into fnaf, then you have to show us to them. Retweet, reblog, post on your page, comment. Help us reach out.

We can do this by ourselves but damn that route is the slow one. We aren't doing this for us, we're doing this for the entire fnaf fandom, wherever it might be. If you're willing to help us, then we're going to give you what you want. So please help us. We need you.

EDIT: The boss has calculated the final cost for Freddy. Suit and all, he's going to cost $3019.77. That's in Canadian dollars. In American dollars, that's $2320.76. This includes taxes and covers everything, from the suit to the rest of the endoskeleton. Some of you might think that's a lot of money. Some of you might think that's not enough money. I think we can do it. But only with your help.

Here is a link to the album. More updates later today, including video!

Hello all,

It has been some time since the last update, and some recent questions have been asked as to if the project is still ongoing.

Yes, it is! Although not as quickly as expected, due to the unavailability of certain components required to complete the robots at this time. Again, we are waiting on Genesis Robotics to release models of the Livedrive actuator for sale.

In the meantime, my team and I are developing the machine vision system alongside a new Natural Language Interface (a chatbot of sorts), to get the AI side of the project out of the way. If all goes well a live demo may be ready est. March.

Additionally, some things we just can't show yet, as it may disqualify us from patenting it. Therefore, we will release content as soon as we are able to.

As far as the Anthrobotics website goes, it is currently offline for two reasons: 1) We are redesigning it entirely, and 2) I have reallocated funds from keeping it up all the time to other parts of the project to speed development. We still own the domain, so that's all good.

If anyone has any questions, please send me a message. Progress may be slow at the moment, but it should pick up fairly soon.

Thanks again for your continued patience and support!

• Ian

Hi everyone, it's been awhile since my last update. My team and I have been busy developing the machine learning side of things for Freddy, as it is not practical to work on the physical build right now.

Here's why:

We have decided to use a new actuator (motor) technology called LiveDrive, which is a direct drive, electromagnetic motor that requires no gears. It would enable us to build anthropomorphic robots like Freddy, such that they could have both strength and speed. This is something other motors cannot do, as it's usually one or the other...

Unfortunately, Genesis Robotics is only a research and development company, and is looking for so.eone to manufacture LiveDrive for them. Until they do so, we cannot buy any motors. Instead, we have focused our efforts on developing our machine learning/AI systems.

We are excited to bring you updates as we progress along. When we have something able to be demonstrated, a YouTube video will be made available. Updates will also be posted to our Anthrobotics and Project 87 Twitter pages.

Thank you all for your support and patience!

Welcome to project 87 a fun community where everyone works together to help build our favorite animatronics. Whether you act out the lines that the animatronics will say or you just want to hang around. There is a place for everyone here.

Rules!

-Make sure you're nice and supportive to each other.

-Don't spam or ask for too many things. Make sure you also don't rush the project leaders.

-No inappropriate or unrelated content needed.

Well sit back and enjoy your selves here in our little community.

Boss just posted a tweet about a better stereo camera system for Freddy, because as awesome the previous one he showed off is, he can experiment waay more with the new ones! Let's just hope the folks who have them get to our order soon..

And for the actual robot itself, a full body redesign is now underway!

Currently there aren no pictures or video available to show, but we'll make sure to provide some as soon as there is something new to reveal!

(... Gregory, your friends are worried about you... They're here with me. Please come out...)

Hey everyone, and welcome to the Reddit roundup for this month.

ROBOT!

September 7th

Elbow joint prototypes are currently in the making. The robot will be 100% toolless, to make them easy to build by anyone!

September 13th

The elbow joints are being printed out of flexible filament from this day on, to make them shock absorbent.

September 22th

Unfortunately the flexible filament jammed the printer, but the hard plastic variant was a success. A few changes to the elbow joint and it is now good to go, and they are a perfect fit to be used as ankle joints as well!

LORE!

September 6th

Maddie went to the workshop. When she got there she saw a little girl called Susie who had lost her puppy, but then she suddenly vanishes...

September 13th

Maddie messages Lucas about the girl, and asks him to come, but Lucas then takes his time to get to the office.

September 20th

Lucas and Maddie are walking around the field, and he asks her questions, trying to find an excuse, and says the girl is a hallucination. But then Maddie realizes he's lying, and calls him out, finding that with the robots, and the place itself, there's more than meets the eye...

September 27th

Lucas is at home, and thinks over everything, remembering the times he's seen stuff going on, and then after, he rings Mike...

That’s all for this monthly roundup. If you like what you see in these posts, or what you see from us in general, tell your friends and donate Here if you can. Every little penny helps the robot. Hope to see you all next month.

I was the user that posted the post on /r/fnafcringe. I know you've been working very hard on this and I'm extremely sorry for making fun of it.

I know what I said wasn't cool and I take full blame for it. The title was rude but I did want to show the people of /r/fnafcringe the Endoskeleton as well.

I promise that it won't happen again.

-Gb13

EDIT - Thanks for accepting my apology. Are you actually serious that people don't apologize? How rude.

I feel like us mods haven't been updating you guys enough on what's currently going on.

First off, the project is not dead; the boss just installed some new servos, and a new video should be coming out soon enough.

Secondly, be patient. I guess we thought that the robot was going to be done sooner - but as you can see it won't be. the boss is trying his best to make Freddy without any mistakes; we're choosing quality over time. I can understand why some of you are concerned about the lack of posts on this subreddit. But that's because we're more active on other social media such as tumblr.

Anyways, that should sum up what's been going on for now. Should there be anything important that any of you should now about, we'll update you.