Ex-Cop Builds His Own Johnny Five Robot From Hacked Appliances

How do you plan to drop your retirement ? travel the world ? eternal gardening ? After two X serving as a Baltimore police ship’s officer , Mark Haygood retired and now pass his devoid time plough one-time appliances like radios , DVD players , fans , and power tools intoimpressive humanoid robots .

Mark ’s first existence , HEX , is a four - base marvellous self - standing golem that has direct four twelvemonth to engineer and so far has in full functional hands , arm , and legs . It ’s even able-bodied to take the air , and while not all unchanging just yet , that ’s completely excusable when you take into history that HEX is mostly meet from hacked gadget and other re - purposed consumer electronics .

HEX ’s articulated hands , however , were created with the help of a 3D pressman , and to date Mark approximate he ’s pass tens of thousands of dollars bring his creation to liveliness . It ’s an expensive hobby , no doubt , but when Mark eventually perfects HEX he ’ll have the consummate artificial guardianship giver by his side as he move into his senior year . That , or one hell of a contender when automaton scrap gets more popular . [ InspymeviaDamn Geeky ]

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