3d printed Radicon robot, vintage functions.

[robothut]

I thought it would be cool to try and build a working Radicon robot. I was thinking in a smaller scale as its easier to display.  I also wanted to see if a gray wrinkle finish could be baked on to the PLA 3d printed body parts.

So I made a working coherer detector and a sensitive reed relay and tied it to a 6 stage motor driven sequencer so that the functions of the Radicon robot could be reproduced. I am using a  mechanical piezo grill ignitor for the transmitter so that I would not have too try and build a electro-mechanical high voltage device.. 

I may build more of these but use modern RC electronics as building the vintage stuff and getting it working right is a lot of work. It was fun for a one time thing but would be work to do again.

video of the test robot.

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[robothut]

Here is a short video on coherer detectors and how I used it in this robot.

 

[robothut]

Here is a picture of the robot. The wrinkle finnish turned out great but it takes 24 hours in a low heat oven and smells real bad. So if I make more of these robots they will be in a silky blue finish I think.

[Roboto]

Great looking and working Radicon  

[Andyman]

Most excellent, John!

[Martian Gil]

superlatives and other great words.   Dang John.   Wow.   

[Ranger]

Excellent! 👍