NEWS ALERT!!! - Roxy 1.0 was severely damaged in a surfing accident off of the coast of California on December 24th. She was repaired and then took off for her vacation in the islands south of India where she was damaged beyond repair when the Tsunami struck. She has been replaced by our new drummer - Justin 1.0

 

The making of our robot drummer Roxy 1.0

Why, what's this? Could it be a very important piece needed to build our robot? David fishes Roxy out of the trash.

Roxy gets her head.

David  begins work on Roxy on October 29, 2004, at 21:00 hours. 

M.T. and Kevin work on Roxy's head and brain and prepare to attach it to her body.

She's becoming so beautiful. Work at 22:15 hours on October 29th.

David shows off Roxy with her head now attached and brain nearly functional.

M.T. spray paints a glove that will be used for Roxy's hand.

Kevin finishes attaching Roxy's arm and breasts at approximately 22:50 hours on October 29th. She's almost complete.

M.T. and David attach her hand, legs and silver purse.

Communications are installed and Roxy at 22:55 hours on October 29th, 2004.

Success!! Roxy 1.0 comes to life at 23:13 on October 29th, 2004.

 


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Last week we learned  about some kids in Lowell Dohrmann’s class that built a robot for a competition to pick up ping pong balls.

We have to admit, we were a little disappointed. We had so hoped they were actually building some sort of teacher-eating, super robot that would have taken over the high school, but alas..... only a ping pong, picker-upper.

When we were just little boys, robots were one of the things promised for our future. In fact, We  can remember hearing that every home would have a robot. We dreamed about our  robot all the time. Our  robot would clean our  rooms, help with  homework and beat up the kids that picked on us. But, we never got our robot as kids.

But the idea of MLHS’s robot inspired us. We talked of boyhood fantasies (no, not those) of building robots, and we even decided to build one to hold the drum machine for our little band, "Dorfus CrackTractor". We’ve been unable to secure a drummer, so we’ve been using a drum machine. It was time she became a robot drum machine.

It’s true, we spent some time last week gathering up parts to build our robot that we’ve named, "Roxie v.1.0". We wanted her functional by Halloween. With some vacuum cleaner parts, some dryer vent hose, some spray paint, LED lights and a couple of 9 volt batteries, we’ve got her complete.

We’ve even thought of writing a song about our robot. Here’s some rejected song titles about robots. If you don’t get these, you’re either too old or too young or you need to get out more.....

The top 10 rejected songs about robots:

* For Those About To Lock, We Reboot You;

* (I Wanna Live With A) Silicon Girl;

* 1000 110 111 101 11 0 1001 (Jenny);

* Hz So Good;

* Who Left the DOS Out?;

* Born to Be Oiled;

* Sprocket Man;

* 10 PRINT "Strawberry Fields" / 20 GOTO 10;

* The Way We Whirr;

* You Can Call Me HAL;

* Great Balls of Wire