This homemade author of Instructables nicknamed M.C. Langer made to order for another author of the same site, under the nickname randofo. He brought him an old household fan and asked him to make something exclusive, existing in a single copy, something that no one else has.
Well, the master goes to his workshop and dumps on the floor a bunch of what anti-plushkins would call rubbish. But it turns out that it was not in vain that he saved all this for so many years. I knew that would come in handy. Now come in handy.
Here are the many different things that will soon help the master make a boring fan an exclusive, one and only VentRobot:
The master takes a claw from one broken toy robot and attaches to the leg from another. Why - see later.
Opens the fan:
It tightens the previously obtained structure from the inside, while it is important to ensure that the hardware is located very far from the fan blades:
Removes two faulty switching power supplies from the enclosures. Parts from printed circuit boards come in handy for any other project. And here it is precisely the cases with computer fans at the ends that are needed, and the master saves the sawed-off plates from opposite ends - they will be needed here:
To each of the cases, the master adds a charger from an electric toothbrush, and the robot hands are obtained:
Master decides to give the robot one of the hands of a blaster from a science fiction film. He himself thinks so, but to the translator it seems that it looks more like an old reporter's video camera with a microphone. In general, who the robot will be - an interplanetary cameraman or a space shooter - depends on the viewer's imagination. They are used: a previously sawed-off plate, a large plastic hollow cylinder (this will be the "lens" of the "camera") and an empty case from the laser pointer (and this is the "microphone").
By connecting these three parts together, the master attaches them to one of the buildings from the power supply:
Screws both hands to the fan from the inside like legs, again making sure that the hardware is very far from the blades:
He comes up with what to give the robot in the other hand. He takes the case from a ball computer mouse without scrolling and attaches two antennas to it from the router. The case itself is reduced with the help of a dremel. If we consider the robot as a space shooter, then it will be a plasma shocker, and if it is a reporter, then it will be a transmitter for supplying audio and video signals to a receiver in a television crew van. Although he is a space cameraman, what kind of van is in space? Starship!
The master takes two covers from old PDAs on Palm OS and charging stands for them. The coasters and the CCP themselves would have been preserved, he would have repaired them. Well, if there are only covers - they will be shoulders:
The master makes the head of the robot from a stand from a monitor, a radio alarm clock, and plastic glasses from a toy. And the eyes are from the covers and washers:
It takes some kind of adapter with a connector similar to Centronics, and the front fan grill:
Installs the adapter in the center of the grill, and it, in turn, returns it to the fan, and the VentiRobot is ready:
It remains to place the structure on the wall. The fan is active here, and if desired, you can make a radio alarm clock active. Get MuzVentiRobot.
Of course, you will not have exactly the same set of parts as the master. But this is even good. Indeed, thanks to this, the variant of VentRobot that you collected will also turn out to be exclusive, one of a kind, one that no one else has.