I've been working on a replacement chiller (heat exchanger) to replace the steel-tubes-through-cocktail-shaker assembly on the front of ThinBot. I just dropped it off at PK Selective Metal Finishing to be blue anodized.

Before I could do that, though, I had to do a test assembly to make sure it actually went together.

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One of the upgrades I finished in time for BarBot: Automatic! 2013 was the artwork for the pump-mounting panels on ThinBot. This was done by trimming the panels to the right height, then masking each panel with adhesive vinyl (Cut on the CNC vinyl cutter at TechShop SJ) and sandblasting. The result looks like a fusion of white milk glass and shiny ( Read more... )

I know there are plenty of options for your entertainment dollar this weekend, but if you like cocktails and robots, you might want to get tickets to one or both nights of BarBot 2013 ( Read more... )

bovil and I got to Seattle without incident and are checked into the SeaTac Doubletree.

More important, we have ALL our pre-con errands run: ThinBot collected from FedEx, all our share of the party shopping done. This means we can do whatever we want for the Fourth!

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ThinBot (and yours truly) have been invited to appear at an event sponsored by Swissnex SF:

http://swissnexsanfrancisco.org/Ourwork/events/robotshumans

Monday, May 21 6:30-10pm

We have to equip two of our footlockers as padded shipping containers for Thinbot so we can get him to conventions.

iamradar had a defective memory foam mattress that needed a home.

So bovil and I squeezed it into the Subaru, took it home, and chopped it into 8 smaller pieces. The stacked slabs looked rather like megalithic plinths, so what else could we do?

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Here's video of the very cool mechanized Gold Medal ThinBot was awarded at Robogames 2012 last night.

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ThinBot took the Gold!

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Here are a couple of photos of ThinBot after installing the full-length food-grade Norprene tubing.

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