1. Acquired Parts

Acquired Parts

Updated April 16, 2016

The first item I bought was the torso knob. I bought 2 of them from Mike J. when I joined the B9 Builders Club.

 

The tape reel was bought from a vintage recording equipment hobby site. I bought 2, and although they aren't the correct style, they will do.

 

The lighted switches for my torso buttons are NKK part KB15SKW01 from Allied Electronics. You can plug an LED right into them.

 

I bought a partial brain kit from Scott S. that has defective plating. This will save me from cutting out the little shapes. Scott traced the outline of the missing triangular pieces onto the cardboard packaging so that I would have a reference to make my own.

 

 

I don’t remember who I bought the aluminum brain spinner from, but it also has some minor defects so I got a discount.

 

 

 

I bought some 7 RPM 12V gearmotors from MPJA.COM. They are offset, unlike the ones typically used for animating the brain.

 

 

 

I have a collection of motors from linear actuators used in electric gate openers, as well as Futaba servo motors and a few stepper motors, all saved from a previous job. The price was right.

I also have:

 

  • ·         Dan Monroe’s "Robot Ramblings" audio CDs. I will be making little MP3 clips from these after I transcribe them for easy word searching. I hope to buy the iB9 discs eventually as well.
  •  ·         The smaller “belly” lights that everyone uses. I bought a variety of lens colors and also have a number of real vintage ones that I’ve salvaged from junk.
  • ·         Power pack parts. I plan to make my own pack, and I’ve saved a whole bunch of junk old transistors, resistors, caps, and long rectangular potentiometers that will work perfectly for this purpose.
  • ·         I bought a bunch of “Warm White” LEDs from the website EvilMadScientist.com that I think will look more like incandescent lighting than the harsher white ones do.
  • ·         To make my own belly buttons, I bought 4” x 4” sample sheets of transparent colored acrylic from TAP plastics (tapplastics.com). The sample size is one of the standard selections.