Blink

A while back I found these cool old display tubes (known as “nixie tubes”) that show scientific symbols. I finally got around to building a little robot that uses the “volts” and “ohms” symbols as though they were different stages of eyes during a “blink”. Hence his name. There is a home made cam mechanism in his head that causes them to switch back and forth.

Blink

Year:

2008

Dimensions:

45" x 16" x 14"

Materials:

Floor polisher, vacuum cleaner parts, baseball bats, fence caps, ski bindings, wooden gear, LEDs, nixie tubes, motor, golf caddy cart parts, circuit board.

Category
Robots & Figurative