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Thought I'd take a break from Dungeness and upload one from a last minute trip in December to the Tate Modern. There was an exhibition of art made from old technology, and this robot made from old radios caught my eye. I can't remember who the piece is by, so if anyone does know please leave a comment telling me!
In the bustling metropolis of 3160 where's a robot to go when it needs to kick back? The Robot Recharge Room of course! With a range of quality power supplies installed and bottles of Blue Alcobot on tap there’s really no better place to rest those creaking metal joints.
I first heard about the freezer paper stenciling when rakka did itand I meant to try it, really, I did, except, I totally forgot to try it. Then, she did it again and this time, I went out and found the medium to turn my acrylic paint into fabric paint. And then I neglected to actually *do* the freezer paper stencil. A little later, calvo made one! Which reminded me that I have both the freezer paper and the paint to do one. Sooooo
yesterday, when I was surfing the internets, I found this awesome robot stencil and was compelled to make a freezer paper t-shirt. Now, no plain t-shirt is safe. Heck, if the kids hold still too long I may freezer paper stencil them.
HPR-Ground & HPR-Air
Both Robots are designed to protect your home from burglars, hooligans and terrorism. If there is no threat (as usual), HPR-Ground is able to cut the lawn while HPR-Air shoots down birds, which plunder the fruit-bearing trees.
Some of my toy robot collection. Included are repros of Thunder Robot, a couple of Smoking Robots, an RC Dalek (yes, I know it technically isn't a robot) some Astro Boys and a boy on a bicycle, among others.
created for: Surrealart challenge " Robossance "
Picture by: Artemisia Gentileschi
texture by Pareeerica
More picture used ,here: Pinterest
Part rusty robot, part bramble (look them up), His name is Ned cause he reminded me of Ned Kelly who was a famous bush ranger who lived near the town I grew up in (much earlier of course, look him up too). Oh and I reached 1 million hits last week yay, thanks everyone!
The Robot 55 is a second generation wire guided anti-tank missile used by the military of the Nordic Union. With its estimated 800mm of penetration, the Robot 55 is able to punch through the armor of even a 3rd generation MBT. Robot 55 missile launchers are equipped with night vision equipment giving them the capability to deal with enemy armored units at all times of day.
They always seem to be angry or like something is wrong.
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Esta presupuestado que en el 2089 los robots dominen el mundo.
The GGE series ("George") robot is a versatile exploration robot of the Federation. With a curious, ingenuous programmed personality substrate, the George series sometimes border on naivety, though the Federation's hardwired Asimov Protocols prevent the excess of curiosity common to this series from resulting in actual harm.
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Classic Space robots are fun. A completely different challenge to the large microscales and just-squeaks-in-as-a-SHIP builds I also enjoy, the difficulty is to get something expressive yet small enough to be reasonably minifigure scaled.
The name of this robot came from the wide-eyed stare of those big trans clear eyes. "George" just seemed to fit with that.
This time no motorcycle model from Max. But still a technical construction that moves on wheels! ;-)
The original 6889 (brickset.com/sets/6889-1/Recon-Robot) occupies a real place in my heart - I got it following an operation when I was a kid, so it's one of the few sets I can definitely pinpoint receiving. I've wanted to do a remade version for a while, and though this is not perfect, I'm rather happy with how it came out.
sometimes I do small and personal commissions for nice people who just want me to draw a thing for them - #Jon Boam #Drawing
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha + Impossible PX70 film.
'Roid Week 2011.
Day 2.
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What do you do about servicing remote outposts in space that are too far for humans to travel? You send robots, of course! Equipped with tv screens, fruit machines and fly swatters, these formidable machines will not only conquer anything that dare stand in their way, but they are also well sorted for entertainment.
Robot Royal 36
with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/45
What a machine! A 35 mm rangefinder camera with interchangeable lenses and built-in spring driven film advance. It is somewhat bigger and heavier than comparable models (with manual film advance) of the mid-1950ies, like perhaps the Leidolf Lordomat. First of all it has two springs in the bottom, which makes the body higher. Furthermore the Robot features a special rotary shutter. Unlike a behind-the-lens leaf shutter it is placed in the camera body and not in front of it, which makes the body thicker. And finally the camera is just massive, the back door and the hinge are probably the most solid ones I've seen on such a camera. Perhaps it has to be so rigid: it can transport the film with 4 to 5 frames per second, which is as fast as a Nikon F4 without MB-21.
On some items the operation differs from other cameras.
* The big lever under the lens is not for focusing, but for mounting and unmounting the lens. At its end every lens has three segments with a thread. You just attach the lens and turn the lever, then a ring catches that parted thread very tightly. That works quickly, easy and safely.
* There are three little tabs on the focus ring, which make it very comfortable to focus. Especially fine focusing can be done with only one finger.
* The Robot is equipped with a powerful motor drive, so you expect rapid continuous shooting. Most Robots Royal I've seen have a lever at the "Royal 36"-badge at the front side, to choose between single or continuous shooting, but not this one. So, if you fully press down the shutter button at once, the shutter will fire once. If you press the shutter button halfway and hold it, the shutter will fire continuously, until you release it or you press it down completely. You need some practice to that safely, and I don't know if it is a bug or a feature.
* A big item: those film cassettes Robot cameras usually use. You can load a Royal with a common 35 mm cassette, but the "take-up spool" has to be an NR-cassette, which makes film loading not that easy. A nice detail: when the camera back is closed, the mouth of the cassette is opened to reduce the friction, when the film is transported. You can accelerate the film advance further, when you replace the common film cartridge on the feeding side by a TR-cassette, which has the same mechanism. The TR-cassette has to be loaded with film by yourself then.
* The design of the rewind wheel is just awesome. It automatically rises, when it is turned in the direction of the arrow. But the real ingenious idea is, that the shaft inside the camera, which is coupled with the film spool normally, is retracted when the rewind wheel is not in use. So the rewind wheel will not turn during the film advance and the film advance can not be impeded by accident, for example by your awkward left hand.
And when you've rewound a film, don't forget to lower the rewind wheel again, otherwise you can't take out the film cartridge.
* There is a little shifter on the back. In position "red" the shutter button is locked and the viewfinder is half-closed. When using "B" also the pressed shutter button can be locked. Position "R" is for rewinding, then the complete viewfinder is closed.
Some notes:
* The camera may be extraordinary, the viewfinder isn't.
* The frame counter must be reset manually. You have to press the tiny button on top near the shutter button and turn a little wheel on the back.
* You have X-synchronization with all shutter speeds.
* As you can see, the camera has a nice extra foot.
* I often read, that the range of shutter speeds is 1/2 to 1/500 s (and B). My exemplar can do 1/4 to 1/500 s (and B).
The Robot Royal was produced for three frame formats, besides the Royal 36 for 24x36 it was made for the classic Robot square format 24x24 (Royal 24) and for the half-frame format 18x24 (Robot 18). That Robot was also available without viewfinder, then it is called Robot Recorder. There exists also a Recorder 6 for 6x24 frames, and the Recorder was available with (not the 6) or without rewind mechanism. So you can imagine, that those Robots were used a lot in industry and science, and perhaps you've experienced, that Robot cameras were used for traffic surveillance (speed limit control). They are exposure machines; a professional analog 35 mm SLR was planed for perhaps 300.000 exposures, that is a number a Robot can only smile about. Remember, that it has a rotary shutter similar to movie cams. In a movie cam the shutter makes 25 frames a second, several hours a day.
Since the Robot was made for different formats, there are lenses intended only for the smaller 24x24 format, it's like the thing with APS-C and full-frame on digital cameras today. Robot found a way to prevent the use of 24x24 lenses on the Royal 36, practically the camera has two tabs in the bayonet mount and the 24x36 lenses the according two notches, while the 24x24 lenses has only one notch. With that method 24x36 lenses can still be used on the Robot 24. I've read, that there are Robot 36 cams with one notch removed, so for example the standard lenses for the Robot 24 (38 and 40 mm) will fit, but may cause vignetting.
Perhaps you've noticed, that the distance scale on my Xenar is given in feet only. So, the camera certainly was sold in the US, and indeed, a sticker on the bottom says, it was owned by "Stretch" in Los Alamos, New Mexico. I did an Internet research and I really found him. He left a collection of movies and pictures made between 1950 and 1997, archived by the Northern Arizona University and available. His main subjects were rivers, mostly the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. The collections contains nearly 1000 slides, and perhaps some of them were taken with that Robot above. Maybe this link works:
cdm16748.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/cpa/search...