Individuality Bot

You can make this robot as functional as you want and as creative and interesting as you want. The main idea here is that this robot represents who you are as an individual. I'll tell you what I did to make my robot to get you started, and you are encouraged to deviate from my design to incorporate personal elements. Feel free to share pictures of your creations.

Steps 1 and 2 will tell you what you need for this project, and steps 3, 4, 5, and 6 will tell you what to do.

Have Fun!

Step 1 Building Materials

I made my robot from 100% recycled material. Everything on it used to be a piece of something else. I got the pieces by taking apart old appliances, toys, electronics, and things I got from garage sales.

You will need 2 types of parts: big parts and small parts.
I used big parts to build the body and limbs of my robot. The small parts came in handy to add details and make the face.

Comments

[rockgod57]

Is there anything else I can use instead of a hot glue gun

[artqny]

Of course. You can use any adhesive that will work for your project. Tape, white glue, krazy glue, rubber cement, duct tape...

[Itsgoofytime]

Wow this is really cool! I will attempt to create one and post it tomorrow :) TY for the inspiration. Voted and faved.

[JerBear]

ill definitely make one of these as soon as i can

[ure mom]

and i will definetely make you another brother

[ure mom]

this is how everyone moms look like

[temp]

Yeah well not everybody likes plums!!

[The Jamalam]

i did this, except i mounted a cannon made from a used glue stick, an elastic band, a pin for a firing pin and a marble for ammo on each shoulder, and made a mini led laser gun on his arm. I call him... Megadeathkillingmachineofdoom

[shadowninja31]

I just made this little fella. He has 5 weapons...

[artqny]

yay! it looks awesome! you should name it.

[shadowninja31]

yeah. i'm not sure what to name it though... i got an old printer and i just took it apart so i have more pieces, and i found some more pieces anyways. I'll be making more and ill post them if you want me to. :)

[shadowninja31]

Here is a quickly made guy, check out his arm cannon, and a rifle i'm gonna put on another guy.

[mikeasaurus]

Hey artqny, this is what I came up with! RaaarrRRRR!!

[artqny]

I LOVE IT!! It reminds me of the spider-doll from Toy Story. You're awesomeeeee for making this!

[robots199]

It looks awsome! But like the evil robot of doom and your robot they do not move. Nice to have as a sculpture though. 4.5/5 stars!

[legionlabs]

I like your reuse of components for decoration. I will start saving any IC's/components I burn out... Maybe I will use them to build the chassis for an actual robot. That could be cute. That being said, robotics is not very hard. You only need to know one programming language (assembly language) and an investment of maybe 50$ for a microcontroller programmer, some microcontrollers, assorted sensors (buttons, maybe a photodiode), and a soldering iron. A broken printer will get you all the gears and stepper motors you need. You could probably learn how to use all that in a month, too... everything is pretty well documented on sites like AVRFreaks. Suddenly you know how to build commercial quality robots! If you want even less commitment, buy an arduino/clone and save yourself even having to learn how to use the microcontrollers much... or just use that lego-robotics for kids thing... is it called mindstorms? It looks like fun, I wish that was around when I was younger. By the way, the idea of adding the "engine" from a wind up toy is interesting. I would add that, and then try to add control for it with a single microcontroller... it would be a nice fusion of clockwork and digital electronics. Also it would run for ages off a single 9v battery since you won't have to power the motor electrically.

[stranoster]

Awesome. It's great to see some projects in the robot contest that don't need you to be literate in three programming scripts and have hundreds of dollars of disposable income. Brilliant work! You should be proud of this instructable :)

[Patrik]

Love it - it's got lots of character!

A great illustration that, no, you don't need to have a Ph.D. in robotics to participate in the Robot Contest, as some people in this thread were bemoaning...

The only thing I might consider changing is the toilet roll legs - just because they are somewhat recognizeable. I bet you could scrounge up some long metal pieces from you "big parts" pile though...

For extra credit, you could also stuff in an old piece of wind-up toy, and add some random twitching. ;-)

[artqny]

sounds great, thanks for the tips!

[Patrik]

Reminds me a bit of the Evil Robot of Doom! :-)

[Charles IV]

I was just about to say that and he used the exact same method I used: Hot Glue junk in the basement together and make it look like a robot.

[Mr. Rig It]

To cool!