Originally posted on 07/13/2009

I've talked to a local man who is willing to trade my sculpting skills for his welding skills and so, at some point after his impending wedding, we will build a vac-former large enough to do the pieces for RoBob. Now the engineering/drawings can begin...

Originally Posted 06/03/2009

I still haven't decided the best method of fabrication for the body shell of Bob; vac-form or fiberglass.

Both have positive and negative aspects to them. Fiberglass is something I am fairly familiar with after working with it on a recently completed project, but I am allergic to the glass fibers and the smell inside the suit would likely be too much for me. Vac-forming, on the other hand, would be lighter weight overall and would not smell, but would require me to build a 4' x 4' sheet capacity vac-form machine. Which is a fairly complicated and expensive thing to build up-front. The masters/plugs/bucks (whatever you want to call them) would have to be constructed differently for each method, so I can't start building anything until I decide. Grrrr...

Originally Posted 04/27/2009

Well, I have a new ear design rattling around in my head and will post a sketch soon. I would like to have some kind of spinning component like B-9 (originally had) and Robby, but I think what I'm envisioning will look alright. It will also reflect a design element of the first toy robot I ever had and I do want this to have a toy robot-like appeal. Plus, I don't want to weigh the head down with too many motors and batteries...

Originally Posted 03/28/2009

This is a picture of a small-scale prototype I sculpted of the top section of Bob's head, the brain area. I am satisfied with the resulting shape and will work out the detailing when the full sized section is built.

Originally posted 03/28/2009

 This is a concept sketch I did about ten years ago for the brain section of the head.

Originally published 03/2/2009

Here I will chronicle the design and creation of the automaton to be known as Atomic Robot Bob or RoBob for short. RoBob is intended mainly as a tribute to two of the most famous robots in film and television, B-9 from "Lost in Space" and Robby, the Robot from "Forbidden Planet".

RoBob will be named RoBob because of three people who influenced me as a child (though from afar): Gorilla man and props savior, Bob Burns (who I am proud to now call a friend), B-9 and Robby designer Bob Kinoshita and Bob May, the man who gave B-9 his soul. It was Bob May's recent passing that helped push me over the fence when debating doing this project (or a different one) just one day before his untimely death. Here's to you, gentlemen!

All designs and utterings on this blog are copyright T.M. Lindsey unless otherwise noted.

Shifting Focus

I recently decided that rather than delete this sadly neglected blog, I will change the focus of it to chronicle projects I am working on rather than to give opinions on films. This is partly to create a record and timeline of my works and also because I just don't seem to care about seeing most new movies that come out, and even when I do, I'm mostly left with the same feeling of "meh" after most of them.

Most of what I am working on these days is my 1:1 scale robot project "Atomic Robot Bob" or "RoBob" for short. More to follow...