The larger exterior figure is to be made out of primarily wood, with some brass accents.  While the “Homunculus” himself is fashioned from a tobacco pipe, vacuum tube, and arms from a trophy figurine.  I am using this piece as an excuse to make use of several broken trumpets and horns that I have been collecting.  These elements produce a good “boiler room” effect in the robots interior as well as looking vaguely like intestinal tubing.

A very cool old voltage meter gave its life to be the robots head.  Ukulele knobs form the teeth, and a few hours were wasted machining LED eye sockets to glow behind the keyhole cover eyes.

Once all the decisions were made, the brass had to be polished and then re-assembled into the boiler room shape.  I decided to line all the interior surfaces of the larger robot with red velvet to make it seem more biological.

I’ve built a mechanism inside the head to make it rock back and forth.  Similar mechanisms have also been made to cause each arm to rotate back and forth at the shoulder joint.  I have yet to work out exactly what is going on with the arm and hands though.

Above is the tiny brass “dynamo” that causes the little homunculus to appear to work little levers in his lair.