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Norm Servoby ~Weirdonian

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Here's my first* completed Servo puppet, Norm Servo! I decided to go back to the original, silver version of Servo/Beeper from the KTMA years for inspiration. Norm is actually an acronym and the full text on his name plate reads: "SERVO 1.0 - NORM - New Original Robotic Mechanoid - Invented by Joel Robinson - 11/24/1988 - Gizmonic Institute of Technology". So, Norm here I built as basically a Servo prototype unit, so he's got a less-polished design with wires running here and there and other cobbled-together design pieces.

He's actually not a full size Servo, he's about 7 inches shorter than a regular Servo unit. He was cheap to build too, all together I'd say I paid under $20 for all of the parts I used; several parts I've had on hand for years, some were free to begin with, and the rest were dirt cheap. It's a lot easier to build a Servo unit that isn't supposed to be a screen accurate version of the actual Tom Servo. I also put a tiny MP3 player speaker in him, but I'm afraid it's so small and tinny sounding that it's difficult to hear. I'll be trying that feature out again in another bot, this time with a larger, front-mounted speaker I think.

I also designed him with two hitches on his back; I built him for my Joel Robinson costume that I wore on Halloween weekend in 2010. The costume itself (which I'll have to don at and post pics of here at some point) turned out fairly screen accurate especially with a Servo unit in tow that I didn't always have to carry thanks to the hitches on his back and on my costume! I was recognized by many, many more people than I thought there would be! In fact, at one venue I partied at, I won first place in a costume contest I had no idea was going on at the time! I think Norm here deserves a lot of the credit for that unexpected win! (The Apple sticker I put on him came from the iShuffle I won in the contest. The other sticker I put on him after the mid-term elections, lol!)

*I've completed Servo units before, like 20 years ago when I was in elementary school. Unfortunately, they weren't very durable and do not survive to the present.

~jsparrow4 Feb 9, 2012

This is a really awesome and creative robot!

I made a Tom Servo as well out of unconventional parts and I was surprised how many people recognized him. The head was a bit too large in proportion to his body though. Also, if I remember correctly I saw a video of you in your costume with Norm Servo that you uploaded to YouTube.

~TheAppleofDiscord May 15, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I hate to say this, but you're so much better at building these than I am.

~Weirdonian May 15, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I wouldn't say that, mine are just a little more detailed cause I've got a truly ENORMOUS collection of bits of junk that continues to grow; I've got about dozen 18 gallon plastic containers full of stuff now. I've also got Terminator-like vision but instead of identifying targets to eliminate, it identifies potential resources. Over time I've come to view pretty much everything as a potential resource, especially plastic things, so much so that I'm constantly asking myself "what ELSE could this be used for?" with nearly everything I see. I've also had to learn to be vary picky cause good junk can pile up fast, but some things I almost never pass up, like vacuum tubes, MST bot parts and MST bot part lookalikes, and small plastic items.

I also do a ton of experimenting and dry runs with the junk I've got. I often I do that more than actually building things. Before I settled on that engine block for Norm, I spent an entire evening attempting to build a little arc reactor for him out of a "Simply Orange" juice container lid, some blue LEDs and other bits of translucent junk but I just couldn't wrangle a workable, durable design that looked good, so I fell back to the little engine block, which was a part of a "Dino Riders" toy and I had set aside for a Servo unit many years ago.

I quite liked the images you posted of your in-progress steampunk Servo! Can't wait to see the finished product!

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