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This weekend I created the YesNoBot - a simple robot that is able to nod and shake its head.

I used two servo-motors a bunch of cablebinders, an arduino and a sheet of paper to create the bot. I wrote some build instruction after the video

The servos get tied together using two cable binders as shown in the image below. I also used two brackets to stabilize the lower servo a bit. The head is cut from a sheet of paper and sticked to the upper servo using sticky tape.

And now some photos of one of my robots

It's june again (even if the weather in austria still thinks it's november) and this means it's 30daysofcreativity again!

Since the inspirational calender for this year has "toys" on day 1 I make a photo of one of my Robots as my day 1 project

this drawing started out as a deployment-doodle - I continued to draw a cylinder every-time I had to wait for a buildfile to bake an ear or a webapplication server to deploy it.

At home I saw that the cylinders had a face and added some eyes and a little background

I made an anmation of a robot reciting the Three Laws of Robotic

Because every Robot has to know them. They are the law.

The audio track was generated using freetts.

you can download the blend file here

and you can download the audio file here

ROBOT!!!! (did I already mention that I like robots?)

Today's inspirational theme for 30daysofcreativity is robots. So I made a new virtual version of my downloadbot - this time in povray

I designed and printed a robo necklace

if you want to print one yourself, download the stl file or fetch the openscad and the dxf file. then stick on some moving eyes

it's licenced under a creative commons share alike licence