I like these things. I guess they came from gumball machines. They seem 60s-ish if I had to guess. They have springs inside so you can compr...

Here's a weird plaque given to me by my friend. It's a made of fake wood about an inch thick. Neither of us could figure it out. He ...

If you look in novelty catalogs like Archie McPhee you already know what this is. If not, it's a Bibo clock. Bibo is a weird little elf ...

I felt cheated out of my Halloween this year. Before Halloween was even here the stores were already selling Christmas stuff. Thanksgiving i...

Here in my city we used to have a thing called Ohio River Arts Festival where painters, carvers, musicians, etc could set up booths and pret...

This kind of goes with that last post, sort of. Here's a video of Questor making demands on the Earth. I used a free program called Auda...

It's alive! It's alive! It's alive! mwa-ha-HA! The dowel in his head slid into the body but the hole was a bit loose. I squeezed...

These are the final steps in the Mini-Questor project. I painted his back details to match the colors of the original larger version . I pai...

Two things happened today. 1. He got a white undercoat: 2. He got painted silver from head to toe. I don't usually mess with an undercoa...

Painting-muscle engage! His brain is a big ball of electronics. To simulate that I used gesso, which is a really thick acrylic, to make dot...

Robot construction continues. His arms were glued into his body. Also I drilled some holes in his chest for wires to be attached. His hips w...

Howdy! This is part-6 of a Who-Knows-How-Many-Parts series where I am making a miniature robot to match a larger version called Questor. T...

It's a lazy Sunday afternoon; therefore I shall be lazy. All I have is this gizmo for his chest. On the big version I used a toy boat . ...

My robot child is in about the 4th trimester of his conceivement. Normally trimesters don't last this long but he's problem child. I...

This is part 3 of my mini robot-building surgery. I'm making a miniature version of THIS larger robot I built earlier. The head is a wo...