Mechamo Crab

Last year I got this neat little robot kit for my birthday. The Boy and I had already built a number of small simple kits; Ones that The Boy received as gifts. This was a grown up project, no doubt about it.

It took us the better part of  a Saturday to get the whole thing put together, and we only had to back out of it once. We spent hours putting it together, and then played with it for maybe 40 minutes. Since then, we’ve had it down off of the shelf a handful of times. I think it’s lovely in its mechanical complexity, and it has a reasonably prominent place on Molly’s “Precious Things” shelves (another post), but having the thing wasn’t the point. Building that kit-bot may have been the first time The Boy and I talked about the idea that the process is where we find the best part… That the making is what matters most.

Since finishing it, I’ve been meaning to post about it, but Mike insisted that I include a video. Well, I finally got around to it:

Pretty sweet, right?