Joe N. ( B9-0156 )

 

Updated 08/18/2008- Pictures and a video Robot.avi (3.4 MB)

 

 

Updated 05/15/2008- Picture and a video B9 002.avi (2.84 MB)

Updated 08/16/2007-

I'm back at work on the 2 robots.
The first thing I did is take off the pipe insulation on all of my knees.
I want to buy a router to make my knees the right way. So I painted my knees black for now, untill I get a router.
I gave my tread boxes another coat of paint to fix them up.
I put my wheels on that I made out of cardbaord and my treads are made out of cardbaord now my treadboxes look great.
My robot leg got a coat of black paint. Now I have to wait for them to dry in the sun.
I put in new light rods they are a little big I put in new flashing light on light rods.   My torso is about the same I just put in new lights in it.
The arm are the same to hold them in place
I put in machine screws 3 in each arms.  I like how it coming out so far it a big new look for me. ok I put all new lights in and it works for me. I will have more pictures soon and
a very short movie to let you see the lights work. I hade ordered a one channal light organ minikit to have my light flash when the robot talks.  On my tread boxes I put some wood under it with some screws.  This way when I put my home made wheels on it wont touch the floor.. I fixed my tread boxes I put pieces of wallpaper on the front and back and sides. It came out great now I have to paint it.  My tread boxes have a new look now.
My legs will stay the same. Now Im working on the torso.  For me I like what I did for now.  I will have more later.
The gold torso is my son's robot that I got for christmas have more on that soon.

Joe N B9-0156

Updated 12/11/2006 - New Photos

Updated 10/27/2006

HI GUYS,
I'M STILL WORKING ON THEM.
ON THIS ONE I PUT THE ARMS IN AND THE PIECES FOR MY NEON.  I'M WORKING ON THE MOUTH OF THE ROBOT.  I'M PUTTING TOGETHER THE VOICE ACTIVATED SWITCH FOR THE LIGHT TO BLINK.  I CAN'T WAIT TO PUT THIS TOGETHER.   NOW ALL I HAVE TO DO IS PUT THE CLAWS AND WRIST PLATES ON THE ARMS.  THEN PUT THE PROGRAMMING PANEL IN PLACE.  THEN I HAVE TO HOOK THE LIGHTS TO THE PROGRAMMING PANEL TO TURN ON AND OFF.  I HAVE TO WORK ON THE TREAD BOXES AND THE LAST IS THE POWER PACK.  MY FRIEND NOW WILL HELP ME ON THAT.  HE WILL HELP ME TO TURN THE LIGHTS ON AND OFF WHEN I PULL OUT THE POWER PACK. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP.

JOE N.

 

 

Updated 10/11/2006

Here are some pictures of the new work.

 

Updated 05/01/2006

HI GUYS,
IM WORKING ON THE TWO COLLARS THIS MONTH.
I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO STEVE G. AND DAVID H. FOR HELPING ME BEND THE RIBS.   I THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR HELP.
THE RIBS CAME OUT GREAT.  NOW I CAN START. I CUT THE RIBS TO SIZE.  I CUT THEM ALL FOR THE GOLD ROBOT.  I'M GOING TO USE MY HOT GLUE GUN TO PUT THE RIBS ON THE COLLAR FOR THE GOLD ROBOT.  THIS IS FUN TO DO.  NOW IT IS TIME TO CUT THE RIBS FOR THE OTHER ROBOT.  NOW I WILL CUT THEM TODAY.   NOW I WILL CUT THEM DOWN.  108 PIECES ARE DONE.  I GLUED THEM ON WITH THE HOT GLUE GUN.
THE HOT GLUE HOLDS THEM IN PLACE VERY GOOD.  AFTER IT DRYS IT HOLDS THEM IN PLACE GREAT.  I HADE TO FIX THE TORSO ON THE OTHER ROBOT BECAUSE WE HAD A PARTY FOR MY LITTLE GIRL AND ONE OF THE KIDS KNOCKED IT OVER.  SO I HAD TO FIX IT.  IT WAS FUN, I JUST HAVE TO PATCH IT UP.
TODAY I CUT THE OTHER RIBS AND I DID THEM THE SAME WAY, I HOT GLUED THEM DOWN.  THANKS TO BOB G. FOR THE PRINT FOR WHERE THE RIBS GO IN PLACE. NOW THE TWO COLLARS ARE DONE.  NOW I WILL TRY TO MAKE THE VENTS FOR THE ROBOTS.  I WILL USE BOB G.'S PRINTS TO MAKE THE JIG FOR THE VENTS.
I WILL TRY NOT TO BURN MY FINGHERS THIS TIME.
I'D LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE HELP ON THE RIBS FOR THE COLLAR.
TILL NEXT TIME, THE SAME B9 BUILDER CLUB MEMBER WILL HE BURN HIS FINGERS.

JOE N.  B9-0156

 

 

Updated 01/30/2006

 

 

11/23/2005 Part 7

HI GUYS,

TODAY CHECKED ALL MY LIGHTS AGAIN.  I'M USING CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FOR THE GOLD ONE.
I CUT THE STRING OF LIGHT UP.  FOR THE LIGHTRODS I USED STRAWS AND CHRISTMAS LIGHTS 4 LIGHTS IN THE BRAIN.  MY ROBOT BRAIN IS MADE OUT OF POSTERBOARD FOR THAT.  I HOOK UP ALL THE LIGHTS UP.  NOW FOR THE POWER I'M USEING A TRAIN TRANFORMER FOR THE BUBBLE LIGHT .
ON THE TRANSFORMER THERE ARE TWO SIDES ON IT ONE FOR THE TRACKS AND THE OTHER SIDE FOR LIGHTS FOR THE HOUSES AND OTHER THINGS SO I AM USING THAT SIDE FOR THE BUBBLE.
THE BELLY LIGHTS ARE ON ANOTHER TRANSFORMER FOR THE SETS OF LIGHTS. ALL THE LIGHTS WORKING.  NOW ALLI HAVE TO DO IS THE COLLAR AND THE VENTS LAST THING IS THE POWER PACK.
BOTH ROBOTS ARE ALL MOST DONE FOR CHRISTMAS. I HAVE THE GOLD ONE ON A PLAT FORM WITH SOME OF MY CHRISTMAS THINGS.
MY SON WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT.  THE ATHER ROBOT I STILL HAVE TO DO IS THE NEON STILL THE SOME WAY.  AND ON THAT ONE I HAVE TO DO THE COLLAR AND THE VENTS.
SO THEY ARE ALL MOST DONE.  ALL THE LIGHTS WORK IN BOTH OF THEM.  SOON I WILL HAVE PITCHERS OF BOTH TOGETHER.
THANK YOU ALL FOR LOOKING AT MY PICTURES.
PAGE8 COMMING SOON

 

 

 

11/08/2005 Part 6

HI GUYS,

HOW ARE YOU ALL TODAY,

I PUT MY CHEST LIGHTS IN MY ROBOT THEY LOOK GREAT.
I PUT THE KNOBS ON TOO. I'M WORKING ON MY ARMS TODAY, I'M DOING IT THE WAY ITHE I DID WITH MY VERY FRIST ROBOT I MADE IT OUT OF POSTER BOARD.
I MADE A ROUND TUBE AND PAINT THEM BLACK AND SILVER. IN THIS CASE I HAVE TO MAKE 2, SILVER AND GOLD.
ONE FOR EACH ROBOT. I MADE MY CLAWS OUT OF WOOD.
MY WIFE LOOKED AT HOW THE ROBOT ARE COMING OUT.
I SANDED THE CLAWS AND I PAINTED IT. THEY LOOK GREAT ON THE ROBOT. MY WIFE LOVES THE GOLD ONE.
I MIGHT CHANGE THE ARMS I REALY DONT LIKE THEM.
I WORKED ON WERE THE NEON GOES, I PUT PAPER THERE AND PANTED IT RED.
BEHIND THE PAPER I PUT A LIGHT SOCKET IN THE BACK OF IT .
I ORDERD 2 COLOR ORGAN/SOUND ACTIVATED LIGHT SHOW BOARDS.
WHEN HE TALKS THE LIGHT WILL GO ON ANF OFF JUST LIKE THE NEON.
THAT COAST $4.95 EACH. I HAVE THAT DONE NOW.
I AM WORKING ON THE BRAIN FOR THE GOLD ONE, I HAVE A BRAIN FOR MINE .
I WENT TO THE CLUB SITE AND DOWN LOADED THE PATTEN FOR THE BRAIN.
I GLUED IT TO POSTER BOADERD I CUT IT OUT AND THEN GLUED IT TO THE SHAPE OF THE BRAIN THAT I HAVE.
I ONLY PUT THE EYES IN THE LITTLE HOLES I CAN'T CUT OUT.
I PAINTED IT GOLD. I PUT THE BRAIN CUP IN THAT SOME ONE GAVE ME FOR MY SON'S ROBOT.

NOW I HAVE TO PUT THE LIGHTS IN IT.
SO I HOPE TO HAVE THEM DONE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
PAGE 7 COMING SOON.

 

 

10/17/2005 Part 5

Hi gang,

How is everyone today?

I'm going to work on the chest lights and my neon place.
I went to radio shack and got t-3 1/4 miniature bayonet lamp basepart number 272-325 they will be the belly lights and 2 will be the chest lights.
It came with 1 red and1 green lens.  The club lens will fit a little bit.
Ii will start with with this first.  So i will use my new radioshack coldheat cordless soldering tool my wife got me.  I never used on like this one.
I used my new solodering tool, it works great.  I put all my lights on now I will put it in its place.  It works, it works!  I like what I did so far.
The lights make these robots look good.  Some of my lights will blink and some won't blink.  Now I have to hack it up.  
I put the chest piece on the robots.  Now I have that done.  So I will take a break for a week.
Part 6 coming soon.

 

10/03/2005 Part 4

I started working on the radar pieces today.
I started puting it on the collar bottom.  I think I made it too high.
I have to take some pices off the radar later once I do that I will put the ear pices that sent me.  The ear pices are great.  It will look great on the robot.
Now I have to paint the torsos next week.  My son's robot will be painted gold.  I put new trim around the robots.  Now I can paint them.  I have to get the radar now.  Be back soon.
I have started the radar today.  I cut all the pieces out and sanded them down, glued them together.  Now I have to start the collar I have to get the ribs bent for them.  I will have it done in Oct.  I tried the bubble on top it looks great on him.  My wife likes it too. Thank you Mike J.
I still have more legs to cut out I will do that first.
9/30/05
I did cut all my legs out and put the pipe tape on the other legs now it looks taller now.
Now I will paint the robot on sat.  I have to put some pieces on the treads on the treadboxes and the knees hangs I made.
The 2 robots look great.  My sons robot looks great with the parts I got from my friends.
I have to work on the lights on the torsos now, I will do that this week.
Now I will paint.  The paints are gold, black,silver.red. yellow.  I hope you all like them.
My son will be happy with the work I did on them. He will be happy.
I painted the legs and knees with dupli color undercoatand I put on the torsos stone textured paint.
I like what the torsos look like they came out great now I can put some of the parts on what my friends sent me.
I'm going to put the treads on now.  I made them out of cardboard and I painted them with dupli color undercoat.  I will put them on today.
Today is sunday 10\2\05, I will start working on the lights and the collars this week.
I hope you like them, please let me now what you think of them.
Joe

 

 

09/14/2005 Part 3

I did not want to do the robot for a long time.
My wife kicked me in my butt.  She said to me to stop feeling bad, your son would like you to get them done.   So I said ok.  I want to put one in my son's room.  So I will get going on the torso.
Now I will put aluminum paper on the top of the torso.  When I get done with that I will start putting on aluminum screening on the top and the bottom of the torso.
This will help hold the plaster on it.  Now it is time to put the plaster of paris on the top.
I will let that dry for about 2 days, then I will do the bottom next.
I have found more wood to do the rest of my legs.  I will let the plaster dry now.
I will work on cutting the rest of the legs out next.
When that dries I will sand it and do it again with the plaster.  It is coming out great.
I have the torso done with the plaster.  Next i will paint the torso.  I have to put in the arm pieces now.  Now I will cut the rest of my pieces out this weekend.
I hope you all like it so far.
Until next time,
Joe

 

 

8/09/05 Part 2

Hi to all my freands in the B9 Club,

How are you all?
I started puting my torso together.  It is taking time to do when you have kides at home.
I put the base together for the collar. I'm going to get the rods for the collar next month.
I still don't now how I'm going to cover the torso yet.  I think I'm going to do what I did to my other robot, I used plaster for the torso and that worked out good.  My 2 new robots are coming out great.  I have to take my time on them now, I have to put the arm holes on the torso now.  I used the same wood for my torso like I made my tread boxes.
The wood was free.  If you look at my tread boxes you will see the same wood.
I started puting the the holes in my torso for the arms.  I am going to do itthe same way I did to my other robots.  I used plaster to cover it. I hope you like what I did so far.
Part 3 coming up soon!

Jjoe N. B9-0156

 

05/09/2005

Hi to all my friends at the B9 Club!
My name is Joe Norman, B9-0156, I have been in the club for a long time.  I was in the club for 3 years when my friend Dewey had it.  I've been working on my Robot for a long time.  I made one out of cardboard and paper mache.  That Robot is on the club site.
Now I'm working on a good Robot for my kids.  I have 5 kids, 3 girls and 2 boys.  My 8 year old boy wants to help me.  Now my Robot will be made different from all of yours, I do not have a lot of money to do this.
I want to to make 2 Robots for my 2 boys, so I will start now.  Now you have to remember that I do not have a lot of money.
I went for a walk today, I found some wood paneling so I picked it all up.  Now I'm going to use this for my Tread boxes.
I took out the Mark Thompson prints that I have.  I have 1/2 inch thick pieces of wood for the parts I need to put it together.  Now, I have two boys, I have to make two.
I traced all the pieces and cut them out.
Now I put it together, I used wood glue and drywall screws about 2-1/2 inches.  I put them together and I like them.  I'm not done with it yet.  The wood panels did a great job.  Now I have to work on the wheels and tread belts too.  I will like to start on them.
Please let me know what you think of them, tell me what else I can do to them.  You can tell me on line on the B9Builders list.
Thank you!

Joe Norman, B9-0156
PS  I hope you all like it.  I'm not done with it yet.