Materials: Stainless Steel, Aluminium ( Aluminum ), Acrylic, Electronics, Oh and Ikea Blanda bowls!
Description: A 22nd century autonomous droid like device designed to repair the subterranean fracture damage caused by Shale and Coal Gas mining called Hydraulic Fracking that was done during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
IKEA items used for this work that I call the "Fracking Repair Droid" were some IKEA kitchen condiment bowls in stainless steel called "Blanda" - a 50mm diameter size and a 120mm size.
The Blanda bowls are used in the knee joints and for the main top and bottom body bowls. I used 12 small 50mm Blanda bowls for the knee joints, six made up the spherical shape and another six made up the smaller backing cups ... these hide the centre screws that holds the two hemispheres together. In between the two hemispheres is a plate of acrylic machined to emit light from 2 LEDs in each knee joint.
These Blanda bowls used for the Knee Joints on the leg/arms of this "Fracking Repair Droid" were hacked by machining the outer surface in a Lathe, drilling bolt holes whilst in the Lathe, welding stainless steel nuts to the inside to secure the holding bolts positions.
The Body Blanda bowls were machined in a Lathe to produce that brushed/polished surface, drilled for central mounting bolt, and hand drilled to mount the legs/arms.
You can find all the images and videos here on my website and here.
This "Fracking Repair Droid" is a work of art designed to give emphasis to a backstory about the dangers of Hydraulic Fracking to recover Shale and Coal Gas, hence the name. This hack was created as a means to get attention to the dangers of Fracking and due to the large amount of machining etc.
~ Scott Branden, Olinda, Victoria Australia
Wow. Just Wow! Nice job.
ReplyDeleteThis is super cool. Very creative!
ReplyDeleteit looks a Littel like a dalek from doctor who
ReplyDeleteVERY COOL... not sure what I would do with it but it could give the cat something to attack
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DeleteThat's rather awesome! Though I'd rather like to close up the body and pretend it's a model of H.G. Wells' Tripod from War of the Worlds!
ReplyDeleteUm, I come here to look at Ikea Hacks. If someone wants to make a cool little robot, that is fine, but I'd rather not see any politics on this site.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't realize that Ikea itself, with its energy emissions reductionist schematic through increasingly efficient flat packing and other manouvres towards energy efficiency and general pro-green-ness, has attempted to embody the essence and ideals behind a political point of view (with a decisive capitalist advantage of gaining the support of a youthful, pro-green consumer market which is quickly gentrifying downtrodden areas) then you're not really checked in to what is going on all around you. Sorry that you're so uncomfortable with the reality, but the whole ethos behind this site is actually steeped in the political - it may not represent provacative or extreme politics, but it is political nonetheless... because politics is injected into lifestyle, since values are expressed through lifestyle and even aesthetic choices, and values translate into politics. This happens to represent a whole section or module of cultural theory: modern and post-modern capitalist culture and the social and artistic response to it (and this is not to diss this site at all, but this is the reality).
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