Matrix sentinel wallpaper series#

The two halves of the main body are glued together. “Final assembly was quite simple as most parts just clip together, the claws hinge on printed pins that are a couple of mm too long, so once assembled I just melted the ends with a soldering iron a bit like a rivet.

“I designed the body but it was too big for printing in one piece so I divided in into 2 pieces and made an assembly part for alignment,” Taylor told us. The main body of the Sentinel was broken down in order to fit on Taylor’s print bed. The claws feature a total of 169 pieces, while the microphone portion of the design includes 19 pieces. These were printed at 0.25mm with no support and take approximately 26-31 minutes each to print out. In all, the design includes 300 pieces for the 10 tentacles (150 male and 150 female parts). Taylor’s design actually includes 500 different 3D printed pieces, all of which when combined together, form an incredibly detailed, 3D printed version of the Matrix Sentinel. “For example, the tentacles each require 30 pieces.” “I had a good idea that this project would require few but many pieces, meaning not much design time but a lot of print time,” explained Taylor. They look like giant robotic squid and, like squid, they travel together in swarms of thousands.

Its job in the film is to patrol the sewers, picking up dead bodies and incapacitating live humans.

“After watching the 3 films twice, it became evident that Matrix related 3D printable items are far and few between, so it was decided to go for the Sentinel,” Taylor tells .įor those who are not as avid of fans as myself or Taylor of the Matrix movies, the Sentinel is an autonomous killing machine which features advanced artificial intelligence.

Matrix sentinel wallpaper series#

Reginald Taylor, a 46-year-old mechanical designer living in France, came up with a 3D printed design unlike anything I have seen before, based on the film series The Matrix.