Creating Your Own Terminator Arm

Our production artists are at it again...

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A while back (actually, quite a while back - in February of 2009), I made a homepage post about some of the amazing artwork the SparkFun production department churns out in their free time. Stuff like this:


This sculpture comes from SFE production artist Gerry.

Now-a-days, production has become much more efficient so there are fewer scrap boards laying around, but that hasn't stopped them from creating some pretty amazing stuff. Recently, production artist extraordinaire Tyler sat down to create another work of soldering art.



This was Tyler's inspiration.

Using some machine pin headers, a reed switch, and a host of other parts, Tyler was able to expertly recreate the famous arm from Terminator 2: Judgement Day. The result was pretty darn cool:
 

Keep in mind that this sculpture is about 3-inches tall. Very cool work, Tyler. Check out his tutorial if you want to build you own!


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  • EvilGenius121 / about 12 years ago / 1

    Whats a terminator 2? :)

  • nagmier / about 12 years ago / 1

    And here I was thinking someone had gone and done what we have all been waiting on since the 80's, built skynet...

    none the less its a spectacular job!

    • noworries / about 12 years ago * / 2

      You probably meant nonetheless, not none the less...

      You also meant to say it's not its...

      O.K., I am done nit-picking...

      • Jeremy Lee / about 12 years ago / 1

        Once is enough, twice is a-plenty, and three times is too many. :)

      • Member #107659 / about 12 years ago * / 1

        Are you an English teacher or a jerk?

        You know what they meant. Stop being a prescriptivist in a comments section.

        Also, stash the elipses. You want a period for all four of the sentences you posted. Unless you were intentionally leaving off the end of your...

  • noworries / about 12 years ago / 1

    You probably meant artwork, not art work...

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