Making Robot Babies

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