Bang Bot with Hammer Drive

Bang Bot with Hammer Drive

Bang Bot moves by hitting itself with a hammer. It is easy to reconfigure and can come apart and be put back together in different ways.

What inspired you to make this project?:
I saw a thought-provoking robot exhibit at Bay Area 2014 that consisted of an artistic interpretation of dead robots. When I asked about them the exhibitor said "Sometimes it's not so great being a robot." This got me thinking about depression in robots. There have been great examples of depressed AI in science fiction.

Add to this that I have somewhat of a phobia about head injuries. This led me to come up with the idea "I want to build a robot that moves by hitting itself with a hammer." In the original design the robot would be hitting its own head with a hammer but this was too harsh.

To make the robot funny, I learned from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation

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