DIY Mechanical Sculpture Steampunk Robot. Lamp Tube Bot

Dear friend! If you dreamed of assembling your own robot as a child, but you couldn't do it - the parts didn't connect, didn't fit together, or didn't hold together well - then this instruction is for you! Feel like a cybernetics genius! I will try to guide you step by step to creating your own robot, and you will be able to try out working construction techniques in practice, and learn how to create your own models!

Since I am an artist by profession, we will definitely make the robot aesthetically pleasing, and we will make sure that the robot has its own unique character. It will be your own Steampunk Robot, which will live on your shelf and decorate your life!

"The best way to learn is to start making!" It is really very Easy! Let’s get started!

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PARTS:

1. A lamp from a refrigerator /////// or a sewing machine
2. 7-pin radio tube 12AU7 /////// or similar in size
3. Eight-pin bakelite tubular base with tension springs
4. Ring crimp terminals x14pcs
5. Single-leaf terminals x2pcs
6. 3-blade soldering terminal 2pcs /////// replaceable with 6 single-leaf terminals
7. Screws M2.5 x2pcs, M3 x8pcs
8. Nuts M2.5: 2pcs, M3: x2pcs
9. Copper washers /////// can be replaced with regular ones
10. Gears for steampunk decor M3 4pcs /////// not necessarily
11. Magnets with a hole M3 10x20 mm x2pcs
12. Brass high hex stand M3: 5 mm, 20 mm x2pcs
13. Low nuts M3: x4pcs /////// can be replaced with regular ones
14. Butterfly nuts M3: x2pcs /////// can be replaced with regular ones
15. Flat knurled nuts x2pcs /////// can be replaced with regular ones
16. Spring paper clip 19мм
17. Silicone caps М2 x6 /////// not necessarily

MATERIALS

Brass strip contacts from power tee extension cord

TOOLS

1. Cross, slotted and hex screwdrivers
2. Pliers
3. Tweezers
4. Tailor's awl with a thickening

To assemble one hand we will need: 4 clamps, a screw and a nut M2.5, a screw and a nut M3. First we expand the tube on one of the terminals, then tightly insert another terminal there, so we get a bone. We connect 2 bones obtained in this way with a screw and a nut M3X4. We take 4 small petal terminals, put them all on the end of one of the bones, connect everything in a stack with a screw and a nut M2.5X4. Straighten and slightly bend the fingers.

To assemble one leg we will need: 3 clamps, a screw and a nut M4, a screw and a butterfly nut M3. We make a bone as in step 1. We connect the resulting bones in this way: 2 bones with a screw and a nut M4. We take a brass stand M3 20mm male-female, screw it into the clamp clamp. We fix the foot from the magnet with a screw M3.

Prepare a tubular base with springs for attaching the legs. To do this, bend the spring holders down and secure the legs and arms using a low nut. Insert a radio tube, for example 12AU7, or similar in size.

Let's make 4 bones from clamp terminals, as in step 1, connect them like 2 arms, but insert a brass stand M3 5mm in the middle between them. The lower rings of the terminals need to be bent at 90 degrees. We got the neck of the robot.

To attach the head to the neck, you need to drill the lamp bases, insert a long M3 20mm screw and screw the upper free ends of the neck prepared earlier. Then we pull the springs on the robot's body and press the lower ends of the neck. That's it.

Take a 3-socket power strip and remove the plug clamps from it. Now the clamp needs to be bent so that it presses 2 AA batteries. The backpack is ready.

To secure the backpack to the robot's back, we need to make a wraparound belt from the remaining brass strips we took out of the extender in step 5. We'll insert a spring-loaded paper clip between the battery cans and thread the belt through the ears of the clip. Tighten the belt. Now we have a robot with an independent power source.

Our Lampbot robot can now stand up straight, bend its legs, sit down, cross its legs, raise and lower its head, raise and lower its arms, bend and straighten them. These movements are enough to give the robot many expressive poses. It can also stand on inclined and vertical metal surfaces, such as a computer case, refrigerator, microwave, etc.

You can put it next to the calendar and give it poses characteristic of each day of the week every day.

Now you have a decoration for your room and an exclusive cute gift for a friend!

This robot can serve as a basis for further creativity, on its basis I assembled two other models - "a four-legged friend" and "a robot on a caterpillar platform". I hope that in the near future I will be able to publish these two models.. You are also free to add, modify and replace parts, achieving an expressive effect! Create and Enjoy!