Upcycled Green Robot

For the 5th year birthday of my grandson Benjamin, I decided to make an articulated green robot out of scrap.

First step is to gather a lot of plastic caps, bottles, and small plastic parts.

I was inspired by some pinterest pins, but I didn't tried to reproduce them. It is like a collage, you have to be open to what the parts in front of you propose... The starting point was a big plastic surprise egg from Eastern. At the end it is green robot proudly standing on its legs.

Benjamin adopted it!

I also published this instructable in french on my blog, you can visit it, you will find some more ideas.

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To make the legs, I used :

- hemispherical parts to make the attachment to the body

- golf balls to make the knee hinges

- rubber dampers from a turntable record player

- green aluminium tubes cut in pieces (I don't remember from where)

A rubber band is going through all the parts and is secured with a plastic bead. The first rubber band I used was too weak, and I had to reassemble everything with a rubber band which is used in clothes.

To tension it enough, I attached the rubber bands from each leg together.

The head is made of plastic caps, a cable connector, attached together with a screw going through all the parts, and a nut in the body.

For the arms I used again the hemisherical parts to a make the shoulder attachment

The arm itself is a piece of an alumium beer bottle, you will recognize the brand.

Then a plastic cap and finally a small part to make the hand.

I did the same than for the legs: I attached the two rubber bands from right and left arm together.

It is very easy to assemble the robot with body (the egg) being in 2 parts.

The drawback is that is not so firmly attached together.

To secure it I made the rubber band from the arms going through the bottom (there is a slot) and attached two beads together.

At the end this robot is male and female, what do you think?

With the rubber bands and the balls, the arms and leg can take various positions.

The 2 parts of the body can turn independently 360°

The head also can turn 360 °.

It is a very flexible robot which can stand on its feet.

With this instructable, I participate to the rainbow contest 2019, 'green color', if you liked it, vote for me!