Here’s your chance to build a chubby little robot friend for only $16. It even moves. If you think you have what it takes to assemble a cardboard outer body casing around a mechanical engine this could be your new playmate. He takes 2 AA batteries and will melt your geek heart with fuzzy robo-love.

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Some guy really hates to dispose of disposable razors and spent about 800 hours cutting up 2,120 disposable razors and gluing them together to make a functional 43 pound robot. You crazy, razor-man. But your psycho project is retro-cool.

Wanna Nerd up your Halloween party? Here’s a great tutorial for making little robot “bugs” that dance around whenever they sense light. It’s enough to spook any robot fearing human. Flash a light on it and it freaks out. You could have it guard a bowl of candy.

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Here’s a project that will give you the coolest robot pumpkin on the block. An old-school Battlestar Galactica Cylon pumpkin complete with the scanning LED eye. BY YOUR COMMAND!

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This BiPed robot V-3 from Alex V of Instructables is built almost entirely from scratch, with the framework cut by a CNC machine. It has a full range of movement designed to mimic the human lower body, even being able to stand on one leg. Hit the link for a couple of videos and the instructions for building your own. We all need a creature that will go wild on our desk and this one won’t creep you out like some others.

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Looking for a project that can interact with objects in a creepy way? Construct a moving, life-size, robotic hand. This way you can re-enact that scene from The Empire Strikes Back where Luke uses his robot hand for the first time. Granted, it’s crappier then what Luke had, but what are you gonna do?

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How do you keep a geek busy? Project Dalek of course. In case you don’t know for some reason, Daleks are robots from Doctor Who.

At Project Dalek, Dr. Who fans can check out the Dalek Project. See Daleks of all kinds, learn how to build your own, and network with other Dalek fans. I guess it’s kind of a myspace for awkward geeks with a passion for the retro robots.

We like Daleks, here at Project Dalek. We like them a lot. We want more Daleks in this world. We don’t really care what size they are - scale models or full-size Daleks. We don’t care if they are ‘real’ or CG renders. So long as they are Daleks we are happy.

Are you ready to take the plunge and create a Dalek of your very own? If so, Project Dalek is the place for you. Project Dalek is the home of the ‘Dalek Builder’s Workshop Manual’, the Dalek builder’s bible. It contains everything you need to know about how to construct a full size Dalek of your very own.

We also have Dalek plans for every major Dalek variant. These are free to download, once you have become part of the Project.

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