i’m sure not everybody has a piece of a robot just lying around their house, but i actually have 2 
this is me typing my username with a shard of bumper from Evil Machine (2003)
afflctionblade
o man, i just missed the “i” :ahh: let me try again…
afflictionblade
got it!!!
now you try!
if enough people try this, i’ll go get the back lexan panel from the Silver Scorpion (2002) and go!
With a burnt out drill motor (using the curved surface so as to make the task harder): lisa perez
PVC tubing: lisa perez
Cloth (twisted up) from the basket apparatus: lisa predrez
sigh Almost went three for three…
“Robovation” Robot Controller:
hhsjosh
That was too easy… 
but I don’t have any other parts
hahaha…lemme go find something and type…
with an old screw: robogirl007
hahaa…can’t do caps though…not long enough
–d0ri
Hmm… ahh, here’s a 12V robot battery lying around in my room.
<battery>
pat fairbank
</battery>
almost dropped the thing on my laptop though - I wonder if damage from that would be covered by my accidental damage warranty.
i’m waiting for somebody to take the daring shot at typing their username with the actual robot, using the controls to move a mechanism and type
Does it actually have to be a robot that competed? 
I’m building KeyBot!
no, any piece that has been on a robot, is on a robot, or would commonly be found on a robot can be used. try not to use general things like screws though :rolleyes:
I have a pneumatic connector job in my house, so here:
Alex Pelan
Wow, thats the first time that I’ve done it right in one of these threads.
Okay I’m doing this again because my evil friend afflictionblade said no screws…so I have to use something else…my object…a gluestick! (c’mon, i have nothing in this house)
robogirlo0087
haha that’s so bad…meep.
–d0ri 
Ooh I wanna play!!
A wheel off of TOBOR V …
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… That didn’t work so well …
A ref’s flag (rumored to have been used by the great Andy Baker) from IRI 2002 (does this count? :p)
katie reynolds
woo hoo!!
Now type it with the entire robot… Difficulty: no human interaction.
To Katie:
The funny thing…in the first one…
I hardly see any letters in your username! laughs It’s funny.
I even used a gluestick (c’mon, i have nothing robotics related in my home) and I did pretty bad! oy.
–d0ri
That’s why you have a caps locks button.
Funny story - When I was younger I hated using the Shift key to make capital letters so I would turn on the caps locks key, type a letter, and then turn off the caps locks key… :rolleyes: Anyone else ever do that??
Anyways.
With a Clear cover from a Bud Industries Project Box:
Elgin Clock
Too easy… And I regressed to my old style of typing capital letters to do those capital letters. :yikes:
I used to do that as well. In fact, i didn’t even know there was another way until someone watching me type commented on it. It was kind of embarrasing. After that,however, I never really had trouble adjusting to the new way.
when i first began typing, i only used 2 fingers… wait a minute, I STILL DO!!! :ahh:
I use my index fingers for the letter and punctuation keys, my ring fingers for the shift and CTRL and ALT…that’s it.
-d0ri
I did that too!!!
name using championship medal: (no robot parts currently in bedroom…) ellenchisa
this is too easy… props to the first person to try to type their username with a skyway wheel