This weekend has been filled with lots of productive endeavors, among which was a spur of the moment idea to make a sculpture from several boxes of various tech-bits.

The sculpture is taking form, as a robot assembled from all sorts of junk which once sufficed as high tech. It is being leisurely assembled in an ad-hoc way...

The Robot (robit) of Refuse is Born!

This is essentially several years of old geek bits being meticulously hand-assembled into one freakish, electro-pulsating, power-soaked hulk of technology to be feared by all (except small children, who seem to find it quite cute already).

The robot is made by wiring together a bunch of pieces found laying in the office closet. Much of the pieces come from old Dell desktops, IBM Thinkpads, Apple iBooks, even cameras, and more.

Right now, the robit has a basic form, and many chunks assembled, but the plan is to essentially keep wiring on bits and pieces until one of three things happen:

• I run out of things to wire together
• I lose interest, get tired, stfuagbtw, etc.
• The easel tripod on which the robot is being assembled collapses under the weight of all the stuff

When sufficient stuff has been assembled into the robit, I will consider making a diagram explaining the source of each smaller bit making up the whole monstrosity.

The robit might do something funky in the future, too.

Thanks to Dawn for the photographs of the robit!