Saturday, February 2, 2013

Daniel's new robot

Today my youngest brother-in-law Daniel built a robot with a little help from Heather and I.  His robot used the old body and clothes from my dissected "David" robot.  The head is a Halloween skull I had previously decorated as Terminator Endoskeleton Head.  The arms are made from plastic wire guard links removed from a server terminal rack mount system.  The linked plastic pieces let the arms move.  The main body is two plastic containers.  The legs are wood.  After much debate, work, re-work, undoing and redoing the hands are simply small blue mittens.  :-) 

After building and playing with his robot I asked him what he was going to name it.  He said, "Good Idea.  I'll name him Skeleton". 

The build was fun.  Seeing Danial make choices in the design and use his creativity was awesome as his ideas came to life.  Seeing his joy when he asked if he could keep him and take him to his house with him and my answer, "Yes, he's your robot", was the best.  :-) 



Happy Roboting!  And remember, there is no right or wrong way to build a robot.  If you are having fun, you are doing it right!