Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat (and Build a Steampunk Wall-E)

Step 14 Cut it out

You have a choice of three main tools. A shear, scissor, nibbler, or band saw. Of course a band saw is the best but its the most wasteful, although with a band saw you get the whole job done in 20 minutes where with the other tools it will take much longer. The nibbler is a $25 hand tool from amazon.com and it's a punch tool that will nibble at the metal to cut it. If the sheet metal is thin enough a scissor will be enough to cut it, otherwise you can try a shear. You may notice that we did not mention a Dremel. Dremels create a lot of sparks and honestly are awesome but we want to keep this project safe and green.

Now when you cut the pieces out you will need to use gloves and goggles. The edges will be very sharp.

Note: we removed the front chest piece for WALL E and the inner side of the treads. We needed this space so it was sacrificed. If we were to do it again we probably would have removed the back piece. Originally we wanted the front door to open but the altoids tin proved to be too large.