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🧵 Step by step thread: how to build from scratch little robot gardeners with plastic waste

#Mastoart
in reply to Robin

🧵 I start with an empty plastic bottle of nicotine.
I keep only the cap, I will use it as a body.
I drill 4 holes at the top and bottom.
I pass a gardening wire inside, it will be the armature for arms and legs.

#Mastoart
in reply to Robin

🧵 I use a set of necklace beads to create the shoulders and pelvis
ironing beads are great for arms and legs, you can also cut them easily. Here I cut some in half to make the toes for example.
Heart shaped beads make excellent hands

#Mastoart
in reply to Robin

🧵 The main function of this gardening robot will be to trim the hedges, so I add large scissors.
I add more and more beads, the very small ones are ideal for rivets.

Protips: I use an old battery operated nail file to file down the plastic parts so that the glue can stick to them better, which has two advantages:
- You don't need expensive tools, you can also recycle them
- I have perfect nails.

#MastoArt
in reply to Robin

🧵 I cover them with a coat of solid paint
I build him a lot of other friends.

#MastoArt
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Robin

🧵 These robots are also flower pots, they are self-powered by the plant that grows inside. I had started to build them a small environment from branches and string where they could garden in peace but I have too much work to finish...
In the meantime a horrible hairy monster discovered their hiding place and OH NO NO NO

end of the thread, thank for your attention 🙏

#MastoArt
This entry was edited (1 year ago)