Part of my Design Festa exhibit is a “birth giving device” that delivers little baby robot charms. I took the easy way out and bought a “treasure capsule” machine to do the dispensing. I’m not sure what it’s called in English; it’s like a gumball machine, only with plastic prize capsules…
Anyway, I’ve been busy making the baby robot charms to go inside the capsules and took some photos while I worked.
First, I drew nine robots on a sheet of shrink film. Repeat 25 times or so…
Next, I cut the sheets into separate charms, trimmed the corners and hole punched each one
Working in batches of three, I heated the plastic until it shrunk to size, then quickly removed each charm and flattened it between boards.
Slowly and steadily, I amassed an army of robot babies.
Be sure to come try the birth-giving device and get your own baby robot charm on May 26-27 at Design Festa vol 25
Posted by kuri at May 07, 2007 07:46 PMIf there are any left, can I have one too? I can pay!
Posted by: j-ster on May 7, 2007 09:44 PMDid you think of shrinky dink Christmas ornaments in the VOL kitchen while you did these? I did when I saw them.
Posted by: Fran on May 7, 2007 10:01 PMI’ll bet they make a satisfying clinky-jingle when you stack them.
Posted by: Jenn on May 8, 2007 10:15 AMI think the machines are called “Gotcha gotcha” IN Japanese.
Posted by: Scott on May 21, 2007 03:01 PM