Congratulations, John! Enjoy your vacation!

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Dam man this is very cool you have your own personal robot now nice job very challenging project that turn out just great

Congrats! A well-deserved honor for sure.

Vacate all of your concerns for a time, my brother, and have peace.

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I completely missed this the first time somehow, so it's time for a bump!

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Since this got bumped I'll add an update.
In April of 2010 we had some severe rain. At the time I had Devastator around the back side of the house, standing at the edge of my kids sand pit- an 11'X11' area of just sand. The rain washed out the sand from under Devastator's right foot and he fell. I didn't realize but the plastic knee joint broke apart. So I moved him under the overhang on the side of the house. Over the next year he slowly began to lean forward- as the knee joint gave out. Finally this past July I addressed the problem and replaced the plastic joint with a metal bracket. Now he stands up straighter than ever!

Here he is with his legs removed.


The old, broken, joint


You can see the new bracket here




I also sanded off the rust and chipped paint




Still need to replace a few parts that had fallen off in the storm, but here he is repainted and ready for another three years outside.

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