Yikiyo robot
This gallery shows the Yikiyo robot from design to application. Drawn in Flash, 3 years later made into a tshirt, 4 years after that cut using a laser cutter into 3mm MDF board and assembled.
Each robot takes over 3 hours to assemble and paint.
There are still a couple of these lefts from the exhibition, if you want one..
The Yikiyo robot was the first robot I ever designed, so logically it was the first to be then redesigned and built into a laser cut model. The Yikiyo design is still one of my favorites.
In 2007 I was invited to design a robot for Wooden Toy magazine in Melbourne for an exhibition and collector issue of the magazine.
All the robots I have built have always started with illustrations, either on paper or in vector format. Here are a few of them.
One of the first things these robots were used for was this limited edition Yikiyo tshirt. If you want one, there are a few left..
