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Image 1 — Piano Bot!
Image 2 — Piano Bot!
Image 3 — Piano Bot!
Image 4 — Piano Bot!

Piano Bot!

Ingredients:

Amazon cardboard boxes

Pages from an old Merriam Webster dictionary

Pages from my kindergarten piano lesson book

Wallpaper pieces from an estate sale of an artist

A crank music box that plays Fur Elise

A screw from the jar of infinite screws

Old guitar volume/tone knobs

Elbow hinges are made from coffee bag tin ties

Recipe:

Use illustrator and cricut to design and cut pieces. Put it all together. Viola.

Read about it: https://jimiyo.substack.com/p/estate-sales-are-awesome-i-made-some

u/jimiyo — 3 days ago

Comic-bot

ingredients:

silver age comics from my collection and estate sale hauls

a couple of random screws ive been holding onto forever

aluminum foil, bbq skewers, floral foam ball

magnets (the legs and head are adjustable!)

oh, and cardboard.

check the later images for inspo. growing up i had a book with a robot project. i always wanted to make it. i suppose i still haven't since this one isnt motorized.

u/jimiyo — 12 days ago