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Assembling a junk robot structure can be a good way to reuse scrap metal and other trash. You can create a fully new and original creature only with a little touch of innovation. You can bring to use things like wasted tin cans, odd buttons, and useless appliances along with used laptop or refurbished laptop. With some unknown objects of trash and a little imagination, you can take on a new life. You can make it as per your requirement. All you require is a little bit of supervision, and you share some nice times with your kids in the making of the junk robot.

Certainly, you will require junk, but there are some few more things that will help you to put together a junk robot. You will require soldering iron, duct tape, epoxy, nuts and bolts, paints, wires, etc. With all that collected; you can start by making the body. Here are some steps to do so.

• Look for some things with which you will be generating the torso. You can employ old cans, tins or sardines or anything with a sufficient size to attach a head, arms and legs to.

• Then you will be making the feet, arms and legs. Just as your legs should have feet broad enough to stand on, the robot also requires enough balance. Broken toy cars without wheels, lids from mason jars and other that are broad and flat can do a nice job. For making arms and legs, you can make use of any wasted material you like. Use antennas from unusable televisions or radios or in other case forks and spoons, crescent wrenches and railroad spikes can also be some reasonable items for this purpose.

• Now let’s begin with the head. Gather junk parts for your robot’s head. You can form the head out of a doorknob. Of course, it has a mouth and eyes. You can also add a nose to make it appear more like a human. For example, you can employ a wooden top with square bolts for eyes and a zipper for the mouth or you can use buttons as eyes and a strip of metal for mouth.

• Start putting together your robot with duct tapes. Make slits in the torso with the aid of tin snips and then you can conveniently stick the head and limbs in to them. Then with the help of epoxy or solder, neatly join the fragments together.

• Then comes the moment to furnish your robot. Use metallic spray paint all along. It will conceal any problems or rusty spots. Moreover, this paint provides your junk robot a classic cyborg finish. Most definitely, you don’t wish your robot to appear like a heap of trash. For the purpose, you can add fragments of colored plastic, tinsel or anything else that can make your robot appear more awesome.

You can curtail off or add some more steps according to your information and needs. The final look of your junk robot will be nice if you use these steps correctly.