The Wooden Robot.

A few years ago I started building a robot out of balsa wood that I literally whittled into shape and slathered and sanded in bondo. I had no idea what I was doing, so over the course of a year of hilarious failures, I realized that I needed to have articulated joints via embedded magnets - not only so it'd be cool, but also because I wanted it to break in predetermined areas when my cat inevitably knocked it over, which is something that happened with alarming frequency.

So, here is the finished product.

Here are some early forms.

Ollie knocked him over a lot, so I had to rebuild from this quite often:

Because he is magnetic, I can build different parts and bodies for him. Here he is with a work in progress.