{"id":2992,"date":"2016-09-11T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T12:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:28:08","slug":"speakerbot-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2016\/09\/speakerbot-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakerbot III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sbiii.gif\" alt=\"Speakerbot III\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2993\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s project was an upgrade of sorts for Speakerbot, the little robot that lives beside my turntables.<\/p>\n<p>He originally came to be because my speakers sat on different shelves that weren&#8217;t the same height in an old apartment. Of course the way to remedy that was to make a robot to bring one speaker up to the right height. Here was my original illustration of the idea:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trickartt\/6852854275\/in\/album-72157622693130097\/\" title=\"120210 - Annoy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7198\/6852854275_beb8c91c4f_o.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" alt=\"120210 - Annoy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days later, he emerged from the cardboard<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trickartt\/6863320271\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"120211 - Speakerbot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/8\/7041\/6863320271_0e91390b7a_o.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"120211 - Speakerbot\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then he had a well-received lick of paint<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trickartt\/6828022000\/\" title=\"120311 - Productive Day\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/8\/7056\/6828022000_912a3fcb84_o.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" alt=\"120311 - Productive Day\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>About five years later, the cardboard was starting to get a little soft and wobbly, so this weekend I rebuilt him out of MDF. Who knew cardboard could be so human-like?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/woodbot.jpg\" alt=\"woodbot\" width=\"1224\" height=\"1224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/woodbot.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/woodbot-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/woodbot-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/woodbot-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/woodbot-570x570.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1224px) 100vw, 1224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An upgrade was done to his electricals, including some new switches on the light-matrix and a new meter that can just-about be hooked up to the music to display its current.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pressthebutton.gif\" alt=\"Press the button\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2997\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He stands a lot firmer now, and will hopefully last longer than the cardboard incarnation did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s project was an upgrade of sorts for Speakerbot, the little robot that lives beside my turntables. 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