Showing posts with label skull. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skull. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

#365 Another SkullBot to bookend things

So here I am at the end of a year of making robots. I can't believe my year is done now! Granted, I missed a couple days of making a robot but made up for it by making multiple robots in a day to try and stay true to the 365. And I did do a couple 'guest posts' but overall it has been a neat experience, my creativity is way higher than it ever has been and best of all I am not sick of robots. In fact I will be continuing the robot a day site here but I'll be on a less strict schedule than before. This give me time to try out a few robot ideas that will take a bit more patience than I can allow for a daily project.
Most robots done here were thought up shortly before creation and many I only had an hour or less to come up with and work with something (the bummer of working for a living). I highly encourage everyone to do a 365 project, even if you don't do something every day, it still is a good way to get your creativity going.

Many thanks to my dedicated commenters, Mr. Noah Scalin for the original project and inspiration (pick up his 365 creative journal and fire up your creativity), Dudecraft.com for regular inspiration as well, The Daily Robot for awesome inspiration and some great art that now is in my houe, Robot a day for more robot ideas and inspiration, all you other 365ers who have commented and inspired me, anyone else I forgot and most importantly my dear wife Paloma for her support and understanding of my crazy whims and this project!

Now - Robot #365 - I wanted to bookend things with another SkullBot. Initially this was going to be a Skullicopter - a fusion of the skull to my mini-helicopter but I couldn't get it to fly right so here is what I came up with. Plastic skull, board from a dead PC speaker, hand cut aluminum sheet metal, plastic wire loom, IKEA creepy hand drawer pulls and some computer parts (and a googly eye for good measure!). Had to use a crapton of hot glue to hold this guy in place (the poor person's epoxy :D )


Thank you again all for following and commenting. Another robot will be here, but maybe after I take a week off! Now if you excuse me it is Adult Beverage Time!

Monday, February 21, 2011

#263 Robot Skull Quilt Square

Today's robot was done as part of Skull A Day's art quilt auction project to benefit Becky's Fund which is a national non-profit domestic violence and education organization. So far they have enough blocks for two quilts but the deadline is Saturday May 28th, 2011 so they can get more done in time for Skull Appreciation Day on June 4th.



12x12 cotton backing, cut felt pieces sewn down. This will be in the mail tomorrow heading to Virginia.

Monday, November 1, 2010

#151 Skull Bot Anatomy

Here is the spine and eyes of yesterday's bot. I need to reclaim parts so figure I would use this as a chance to show off the 'guts'.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

#150 Steampunk Skull Zombie Bot

Revision of Skull-A-Day's Steampunk Skull. A spooky Steampunk Skull Zombie Bot, rolling around vocabulating for "CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS! CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS!"
What? Why would a bot say 'Brains'?



This was my first time playing with LEDs from scratch, so thankfully there are a few LED calculator sites so I could pick the right resistor for it. 9V battery, 470 ohm resistor and 2 red LEDs in parallel. Head from Skull-A-Day.com, body is a paper covered toilet tissue tube and some components.

Monday, October 4, 2010

#122 Skullpod Bot

Resembling something out of a horror movie or video game comes the Skullpod Bot!



Made from a Jorby tripod and Halloween skull.

Friday, October 1, 2010

#119 Binary Steampunk Skull

Since it is a binary day (100110) I made a binary bot in ASCII Art, took #75 Robot Skull and ran it through an ASCII Art Generator located Sporkforge.com and Voila!



Sporkforge has some cool tools on the website that are worth a look including a tilt-shift photo generator.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

#75 Robot Skull ala Skull-A-Day

Over at Skull-A-Day Noah has once again unleashed the awesome in the form of a papercraft robot skull and of course seeing this I needed to make use of it:


I know I'll never reach the awesome levels of craftitude that Noah has but I do appreciate all he has done to motivate me and the great things he keeps coming up with!

Saturday, June 5, 2010

#1 Skull Bot!

And so it begins.....

In a tribute to my inspiration Skull-A-Day I dedicate my first Robot-A-Day robot.

Skull Bot, aluminum foil over shaped paper.



Thanks to Noah Scalin for the original inspiration and to Tatman, Citizen Agent and Abby for the continued inspiration!