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My Bender Build

Completely functional Bender costume.

  • By David Dorrance
  • Category: Electronics, Home
  • Time Required: 100 hours
  • Difficulty: Difficult
My Bender Build

I have spent 1 year building Bender from scratch. Radio controlled eyes, eye brows, mouth, eyes and antennae light up, fingers move. SCROLL DOWN ON THIS 2 PAGE ENTRY TO SEE DETAILS. My blog: http://mybenderbuild.wordpress.com/

Steps

Step #1:

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  • Let's get lootin!

Step #2:

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  • Frame

Step #3:

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  • Poster board covering - this was covered with fiberglass

Step #4:

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  • Inserting compartment and much spackle

Step #5:

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  • Making arms and legs

Step #6:

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  • Making feet

Step #7:

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  • Making remote controlled fingers

Step #8:

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  • Hey - gimme that arm!

Step #9:

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  • Animatronics: Separate servos to control the eye and eye brow movement. Three LED light sources for the eyes and the antena. Examples of "Please don't use that magnet" and "Watch out meatbags"

Step #10:

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  • Life has been tough...the original finish was too smooth and was not consistent with Bender's life style. So I covered the entire thing with spackle, pitted it with a broom and then flexed the entire construct to create cracks.

Step #11:

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  • Assorted swag

Step #12:

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  • These boots are made for stompin

Step #13:

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  • I've got the perfect girl friend. She's got money...and probably has other qualities.

Step #14:

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Conclusion

Entirely constructed from foam and wood. I have no clue why I did this except it was necessary

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