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Robot Project

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What you need

  • Blue conductive dough
  • White insulating dough
  • 2 LEDs
  • Buzzer
  • Battery holder with 4 AA batteries

Steps

  1. Two small blue dough feet next to the battery holder

    Make two feet for the robot from blue dough.

  2. Blue dough body built around the buzzer

    Build the robot's body around the buzzer, with the wires coming out the back.

  3. Robot body with blue dough arms and feet

    Make the robot's arms.

  4. Robot with a white head and blue eyes

    Make the robot's head from white insulating dough and the eyes from blue conductive dough. Attach the eyes to the head.

  5. Assembled blue dough robot with a white head

    Make a strip of blue dough and attach it to the back of the robot's head.

  6. Robot with LEDs on the sides of its head, next to the battery holder

    Put the robot together. Add LEDs to the sides of the head, with the long leg of each LED going into the body and the short leg into the strip on the back of the head.

  7. Robot with glowing green LEDs, wired to the battery holder

    Push the buzzer's red wire into the body near the feet and its black wire into the strip on the back of the head. Push the battery holder's wires into the same spots by color. Turn on the battery holder to power your robot.

Your finished robot

Watch the build on YouTube