Thanks @irobot58!

@Doombot Nice design your robot looks awesome!

A remote control car ($5.00 @ GoodWill) that can be driven over the internet or with a laptop wirelessly. Has a live-feed IP network camera so that it can be driven without line of sight. It has a Linksys WRT54G router that I have added 2 serial ports too and now runs off of a very customizable Linux firmware base software named Open-WRT. I run mine off a PIC16F628(a) microcontroller circuit but a Arduino can be used too and with much less trouble. It took me a lot of reading and learning building the serial ports into the router and flashing it with Open-WRT along with the microcontroller circuit but I must say, when it was finished and it worked, it was one GREAT moment in my life seeing it all come together! It was a wonderful project and learning experience!

@Toymaker Thanks! I've been watching your work for a while now, I am quite impressed. I looked into those Bosch actuators but since they're not easy to get I settled with window motors, since regular servos are weak and I wanted a big, metal/fiberglass (and later carbon fiber) robot.

What I admire even more is how down to earth you are, regardless of what you've accomplished. Kudos to you!

Sorry I'm late to the party. Life has been unexpectedly busy these past months and I miss a lot.

Thanks for the honorable mention guys. Wow, epic. That's a BIG complement (get it; epic... Big.... hehehe ).

As for original I have to say that the ones you guys are making are very cool , edgy and fun!

Glen , is this the first time you've posted a pic of your Steampunk bot? I've been looking forward to seeing it. He's awesome!

Yes, this is my first robot. I did make a robot Halloween costume for my son many years ago out of tinfoil and dryer exhaust tubing but I don't think that counts. Here's a couple pics of B9;

@Doombot, Thanks for the kind words. I can let you have some Bosch motors (with integral potentiometer), if you want to try them? Window motors will be good and have huge torque, you just need to couple the drive to the pot for position feedback.

This is a great thread seeing peoples first robot attempts and very impressive most of them are to!

@Toymaker Wow! Really! Hell yes I'll take some! What are you charging?

I've already made a case for the window motors so I can just drop a potentiometer in there. It's gonna be incorporated in the shells I'm making to cover up the endoskeleton. In fact I'm making the shells to where a human can wear them too and use that as a controller for the robot. I took some influence from an 80's cartoon "Centurions".

But thanks Toymaker! Please contact me through my main email, [email protected] Also check out my site to see my hand sculpted work! No 3D printing!

www.ikoncustoms.com

@Doombot, no problem you can have some Bosch units for free, I have posted quite a few over the pond so far to forum friends! I will contact you through your email. Your guitars are amazing I only wish I could play guitar myself, I am huge fan of Todd Rundgren, Carlos Santana and Pink Floyd, but this is a reflection of my age, I am not sure how cool these artists are these days?

Influences are interesting for our first robot builds, mine was the film Silent Running, and you can probably see this in the picture that I posted. When I first saw the drones, I just wanted to build one, but my skills were very limited in those days. I have a friend that has build half size versions of all the drones and they look ace, here is a pic.

I would really like to have one of these drones in my robot collection.