"Blue Freak Machine"

I've tried some photoshop to my primary image, as an experiment.

Just made a picture of the progress.. 

I had the strange feeling being watched.. weird..

From now i will add the lastest updates at the bottom of this page.

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As Yellow freak machine is as good as finished, it’s time to start with another robot.

It will be a kind of Johnny 5 someway, but totally my own version.

So I needed some nice tracks.. and bought a 2nd hand R/C toy:

 After removing all unnecessary parts I’ve got a nice tracked base for my robot.

As I want the robot be able to turn its complete torso left and right, and want to have some bearing in the construction so I made this: I’ve taken some metal part out of a DVD-burner and, after some measurements, drilled some holes in it, bend it and sprayed it nice blue:

I also found some nice lid that fits nice over it and sprayed it also blue.

After mounting the wheels and servo it looks like this:

So i mounted the lid, and made a servo bracket out of aluminum.

…Then the Servos are screwed into place. Note that I’ve modified 1 servo so that it turns in the opposite direction of the other servo.

I realy like how it’s looks now, and I couldn’t wait to mount it to the base:

I thought the body color didn’t completely match the top so sprayed something more blue:

Looks nice! Don’t you think?

Top view: (that blue piece of tape Marks the modified servo ;-)

Look those big nice tracks! They are quite fast.. so I will need to PWM them.

This is what i got now, and it will be continued..

Update!

I've made an aluminum construction to lift the body up and down. when i tested it the first time it wasn't strong enough to lift all those servos weight. After some thinking I've found a nice blue suspension spring on a old rc car, a perfect spring for my robot! now it works really nice :-)

See the video..

Update!

Now he has become little more shape with some new body parts.   They are 2 plastic caps normally used for cable TV connection onto the wall. I taped them together to show you how it will look like. Later I'll put his head on it ..