Animax Interns Blog: End of Summer

Hi there! I’m Malcolm Bornmann, Animax’s Summer 2021 Marketing and Events Intern. Welcome to my final entry in the Animax Interns Blog, where I share first-hand accounts of what it’s like to work at this awesome company!

On behalf of us interns, I would like to express how much joy these past few months have been for all of us. We’ve been able to meet and work with amazing people, have gotten to do really cool things, and have grown as young professionals in the process. Because our internships have allowed us to grow our individual skill sets within the interdisciplinary, collaborative, and creative environment that is Animax, we’ve all been able to gain a better understanding of how we can each use our individual strengths to support the team effort in bringing beloved characters to life.

Animax truly has been a wonderful place to be. So much so, that some of us are actually staying at Animax past our internships, with others returning to school for Fall Semester. Regardless of where our journeys will lead us, however, we all are grateful for our time at Animax.

We would like to thank everyone at Animax for being so supportive and welcoming to all of us throughout these past few months!

We additionally would like to thank everyone who has viewed our blogs for taking the time to read about our experiences! Those blogs can be found be here:

Malcolm Bornmann, Marketing and Events Intern

Melody Sivri, Mechanical Engineering Intern

Anna Buntin, Soft Goods Intern

Devon Limcangco, Controls Intern

Jessica Mizuno, Marketing Intern

Sidney Chan, Mechanical Design Intern

As we look towards the future, the hope is that this internship program can grow. For those interested in future internship positions at Animax, we highly recommend applying when those positions become available! You’ll have an Animax Awesome time :)

And with that, The Animax Summer 2021 Interns say our goodbye.

Animax Interns Blog: Controls

About

Greetings! I’m Malcolm Bornmann, Animax’s Summer 2021 Marketing and Events Intern. Welcome to the Animax Interns Blog, where I share first-hand accounts of what it’s like to work at this awesome company!

Today’s post is about Animax’s Summer 2021 Controls Intern, Devon Limcangco:

Working in Controls

Devon has utilized her background in electrical engineering to assist the Controls Team in a variety of ways. She helped refurbish the wiring of a puppetronic for a major theme park, ensured that the power supplies for a well-known costumed character was in working order before submission to a client, and brought a dinosaur to life by tuning motors, labeling cabinets, and pulling an e-stop button when the dinosaur needed a nap!

Devon is currently working in conjunction with our R&D team on a humanoid robot! The objective of this project is simple, yet complex to achieve: to get every electrical component as tiny as possible in order to ensure that movement and look is as natural as possible. To help with this effort, she has routed wires to mimic the veins of a human body, tied cables together with an Automation Knot, programmed maximum and minimum ranges of motion into our robot-moving software, soldered circuit boards, shopped for parts listed in our BOM, and created electrical drawings for a 4-budded e-stop that details such things as the location of safety relays and where ground and power go. Animatronics typically only have two e-stop buttons, so having one with four provides a unique learning opportunity for Devon!

Reflection

As a result of working on a multitude of projects, Devon’s been able to learn more about the engineering design process and how engineering teams must work together to solve problems. She additionally has grown her technical skill sets in all aspects of electrical engineering, while having fun and making friends in the process! When asked about how Animax has impacted her understanding of electrical engineering, Devon states, “Working at Animax has taught me just how creative the engineering field is and how wires and cables are like paint strokes that create great, beautiful artwork!”