Thingamaplush Robot

Step 8 Finish the Feet and Add the Speaker

The legs need wire wrap tubing too! Run a 12 or 14 gauge solid wire inside a length of wire wrap, equal to the length of both legs and the gap between them. Fold over the ends of the wire as you did with the hands. Bend the wire wrap into a U-shape and slide the wire wrap into the legs from inside the body. When this is done, stuff the feet with stuffing, and sew them closed.

The speaker can go pretty much anywhere inside the body. The best place to put it is up against the chest, and it stays in place pretty well on its own when held in place with stuffing. With the speaker in place, run its wires up through the neck and out the access hole in the head.

At this point you may solder the wires from the photocells and speaker to the last remaining positions on the circuit board. Attach a battery and turn it on to make sure everything works. It's (obviously) important to do this testing before everything is sewn up! I freaked out the first time I turned mine on and it didn't work, but I had forgotten to solder some components on the top side of the board. Oops.