Showing posts with label LED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LED. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2011

#283 Flashing Robot

Today was a 'make a functioning-ish robot' day. Here is a robot with flashing lights in its chest.


And some video of the lights flashing:

Saturday, November 6, 2010

#156 Abandoned Warehouse Bot

Much like humans have the bogeyman and felines have basement cat robots too have a fear of Abandoned Warehouse Bot or Ol' Scratchdisk. Parental Units warn their newly programmed dependent bots that if they don't behave Ol' Scratchdisk will come take them away to the abandoned warehouse.



LEDs in a gum container, in the dark.

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.