HOW TO BUILD A HEAD FOR YOUR ROBOT?

This is robot head Max from Medonis Engineering in Beaverton, Oregon.

Few more details will help you to design a similar head.

This playwood head comes as a kit.

This plastic head is a one-to-one copy of the playwood head that you can buy as a kit.

The mechanical talking head is covered by a rubber skin. You can use either kits shown above, your own similar constructions, or the OWI arm, as in this particular example. The gripper emulates the mouth.

HOW TO BUILD AN ARM FOR YOUR ROBOT?

Here we show how we converted a Halloweed Skeleton to a moving robot greeter.

You can use playwood, plastic or aluminum for the construction. No special tools are needed. We purchase playwood in Tammies Hobbies in Beaverton, plastic in TAB PLASTICS, and aluminum in shops like Tektronix Country Store or Wacky Willy. Tammies Hobbies have a wide selection of servo motors, but it is cheaper to order them by mail in JDR, Jameco or Robo-Store.

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