Make robot parts with papier-mâché
What do you do if you don’t have a vacuum former, and need to make a part for your robot body? Well, Vadim Ryazanov over at lets make robots has a simple solution: make them with papier-mâché!
Robotics
Making a robot can be an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s the perfect combination of creativity, engineering and problem solving. However, if you’re just getting started in robotics, it can also be overwhelming. To make things easier for those who are just starting out, we’ve put together some tips and tricks to help makers bring robots to life! From the basics of assembling your robot to software implementation, these pointers will give you everything you need to get started on your robotic adventure!
How-To: Compressed air system for haunt props
Good tutorial on putting together a pneumatic power system for “home imagineering,” as as the folks at Phantasmechanics call it. We’ve blogged their stuff a couple times before.
How-To: Giger Alien costume with motorized extensible tongue
From Creatrope. The mechanism of the tongue is made from Lego elements.
Weekend Project: Blubberbot
Build a Blubberbot. A light-seeking robotic inflatable in search of light and cellphone signals.
Incredibly creepy photoreactive animatronic, um, thing
and has seven servos and several vacuum-formed pops. The rest is “plywood, paper clips, and popsicle sticks.” [Thanks, Matt!]
Animatronic zombie
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Animatronic zombie
Its creator calls this a “groundbreaker” zombie, and since he obviously knows way more about Halloween gadgetry than I do, I should probably bow to his usage. But I have to say I feel like “groundbreaker” should be reserved for props that actually, you know, appear to break out of the ground.
Semantics aside, this animatronic zombie is so well done I was tempted, for a moment, to believe it was a fake–like, a person in a costume half-buried in a hole. Found it in this thread at Haunt Forum. Well done, Dr. Morbius!
Lego model of industrial pallet handler
OK, Jay, this clip takes a bit of set-up. Basically, it’s a model of a factory-floor machine for moving pallet around a square assembly line. You put a pushing arm at each corner of the square and trigger them alternately in caddy-corner pairs. S
