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deepstar Newbie
Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 20 Location: Leuven, Belgium
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: My first steps |
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Hi,
I'm new to this forum and this will be my first post.
Although I like the StarWars movies, I'm not that hard a fan that I want to make my own trooper costume. Instead, I'm a tinkerer looking for ways to construct things. After playing around trying to melt and dissolve plastics in order to have some cheap construction materials, I decided that none of those techniques can measure up to vacuforming for what I have in mind.
So what do I have in mind ? I plan to build several robots and want to create their plastic covers by vacuforming some polystyrene sheets. I'm sure I can also build the base of the robot in the same way, and maybe even other components.
That's about it for my first post. I'll be on this forum for the next couple of days/weeks, probably asking stupid questions about things I'm stuck on.
Thanks to all of you for sharing your experience and views on this forum, most of the threads I read on this forum were really interesting! |
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Solo Novice
Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 35 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to the forum, it sounds like you have a very interesting project going on. I look forward to see how you make out with it. _________________
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TK 109 Guru
Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 712 Location: Galena, Ohio
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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sweet! this guy's making droids!
welcome! _________________ -Alex
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jegner Site Admin
Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 2144 Location: Texas, USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to the board!
Tell us where your from, and if you have any pics of what you are making, please post!
Jim |
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deepstar Newbie
Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 20 Location: Leuven, Belgium
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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I'm from Leuven, Belgium
I don't have any pictures yet, but I will post them when I do |
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CJanssen Expert
Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 215 Location: Beaverton OR
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent, we got us a droid builder.....cant wait for the pics. Hows Belgium?
CJ
p.s. Welcome to the show |
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deepstar Newbie
Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 20 Location: Leuven, Belgium
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:41 am Post subject: |
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the first robot will be one that mows my lawn, but I didn't start building it yet
Belgium is as usual at this moment. We had a taste of summer in april(!) with temperatures between 27 and 30 degrees C, and right now everything looks like it's the middle of spring. Cloudy all day long, rain sometimes, ...
The perfect weather to do some projects inside ! Although I would prefer some sun |
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