Wednesday, February 7, 2007

The Ultimate Test

I thought people might want to know exactly how durable, My Robot is. A girlfriend of mine was in my home and she was very frustrated about some life drama, aren't we all. Anyway she picked up my IDroid-01 and she threw IDroid-01 to the floor. "AAHHHH" I guess IDroid-01 looked like someone she knew. Well of course I quickly went into action to save my friend as he was only in issue 27.

The damage was minimal to my surprise. After seeing the head pop off, I thought he immediately turned into an ashtray. My friend apologized and asked me what she needed to do to get IDroid-01 back to his original state. So I got out my favorite tools, collected his head and body and began to take him apart to see what I needed to fix.

Parts that needed replacing issues 9, 10 and 14. So basically it was a neck fracture. The power cord from issue 14 is repairable if you know how to use a sauder gun. The black encoder disc from issue 10 cracked, all other parts from 10 were good. The parts which held the head to the body from issue 9 was snapped from the body leaving the screws in place. That's the Total Damage, there was some scratches on the top of IDroid-01 head but now I have a reason to sand and paint him.

In conclusion after parts were reordered and put back in place IDroid-01 was working just like new. I found out you don't have to be so gentle with IDoid-01. DeAGOSTINI gets kudos for a well constructed personal robot. As for the girl, I told her that robots are the future and we should behave ourselves in a little more civilized manner.

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