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Name: James Bruton
Member since: 2005-05-23 12:56:06
Last Login: 2008-10-09 15:01:04

Notes: Hello, I am the author and creator of the bi-ped robotics projects at XRobots.co.uk.

I am also admin over at 914pcbots.com which is the enthusiast site for the White Box Robotics 9 Series PC Bot. I was born in 1976, I live in Surrey, England. I have been interested in robotics for many years, I studied electronic engineering at the Univertisty of Birmingham (UK) but now work in the IT industry.

It has now come to a time where I have the spare time and money as well as (just enough) knowledge to build something human sized. My furture aspirations include artificial intellegence development and generally becomming a better programmer. Also a robot to mix drinks at parties would be good.

Projects

Lead Developer on Hybrotron
Lead Developer on Mr Stick Legs

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9 Oct 2008 »

I seem to have spent most of my time building movie props rather than robots recently.

I've just finished my life size statue of Iron Man, so now I'm doing my own custom wearable Iron Man helmet sculpt in clay, which I'll recast into fiberglass or some other rigid resin.

Poor Android 10 has been a bit neglected recently, but I'll probably get back to it sometime.

23 Jul 2008 »

I held a Star Wars themed house party at the weekend, so now that's all done with I have to get rid of some large Star Wars props.

My next project will be the continuation of Android 10, which you can find in the Android 10 part 2 article.

7 Jul 2008 (updated 20 Jul 2008 at 17:25 UTC) »

A robot I built a while ago but never finished made it onto Engadget, HackedGadgets, Makezine and Digg. This meant I've had 22,658 visitors to my XRobots website in the last 5 days (so far) consuming 46Gb of bandwidth, which is more than I usually do in two years.

I might take the time to finish that project after my Star Wars party is all done with.

3 Jul 2008 »

Some updated links:

R2-D2 Construction Project

C-3PO Construction Project

Jabba the Hut Construction Project

...pics of the Star Wars house party to follow ;-)

5 Mar 2008 »

Thought I should post something as it's been a while.

I've been a little separated from 'real robots' for a while, as I decided to build a full size Star Wars R2-D2 replica prop. You can check out all the construction pictures over on my website:

http://www.xrobots.co.uk/modules/news/article.php? storyid=28

My current project is now a C-3PO prop which you can find here:

http://www.xrobots.co.uk/modules/news/article.php? storyid=29

I built my own vacuum forming equipment for these projects. If you want to ask questions then you can post a comment in my guestbook/forum:

http://www.xrobots.co .uk/forum/

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