I Tried Making a Robot Bird and THIS Happened

This started as a dollar-store egg timer and was supposed to become a robot bird. It… did not become a bird. Somewhere around the leg-gluing stage my own carefully measured, clearly-marked-with-arrows-so-there's-no-way-to-screw-it-up angles got "corrected" by me, on purpose, to the wrong answer, and by the time I noticed, the epoxy had already cured. So: bug-bird. He's got an applesauce-lid eye, a C3PO belly full of gears he doesn't strictly need, knees that bend the wrong way for a reason that is now permanent, and a whole nest of spare eyeballs in case the first one burns out. There's also a bus stop, a woman with half a shaved head defending a flock of pigeons, and Warrant's "Cherry Pie" stuck in my skull for fifteen years, all of which somehow explain why this thing exists at all. ========================================= Support the channel: Patreon   / bustedrobut   Buy merch https://bustedrobut.com/ Buy me a coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/bustedrobut ========================================= 🛠 What I use in this build: Egg timer (the victim) LED balloon lights for the eyes Applesauce lid (eye socket) EOS shave oil pump tops (hips) Armature wire 1/8" welding rod (legs + plinth) Corrugated plastic (spine + branch skin) Foam clay + epoxy clay Toothpicks (talons) Wooden gears + plastic gears (exposed "guts") Guitar strings (antennas) Beads (antenna bases + raided from my daughter's bead bin) Paper fasteners (arms) Electrical wire Super glue + baking soda for structure and crust Acrylic paints + paint markers Dirty Down Rust ========================================= Graffiti Attribution: "Torpedo Shark" — multiple reference pieces cobbled together from Google search: https://share.google/zh2vD8Pk7GCkdkCG6 https://share.google/kMKqDUoThDw0c8lp9 https://share.google/ozfvHeAhuB39Rqpmh https://share.google/1dXPEilCq81btb640 "BIRO" lettering — not from any specific tag, just a lot of googling on bubble-font graffiti technique All other works original ========================================= Mentioned in the Video: @MiniAxeCrafts    / @miniaxecrafts   ========================================= Wardrobe by Enforced — https://enforced.bandcamp.com/ ========================================= 🎵 Copyrighted music licensed from Lickd. https://lickd.co In The City by No Warning, https://t.lickd.co/l/AXZqglezo9y 🎵 Copyrighted music licensed from Lickd. https://lickd.co Cherry Pie (Live at Harpos Music Theatre, Detroit, MI) by Warrant, https://t.lickd.co/l/e5rvX1XwWzY If you want to use music from famous artists, try Lickd to get track credits and unlimited stock music: https://go.lickd.co/soundtrack-your-v... ========================================= 🎵 All other music used with permission or complies with Creative Commons license. Chiptunes Courtesy of RoccoW and xDeviruchi @Roccowschiptune Lady Bad Luck (VRC6) https://soundcloud.com/roccow/lady-ba... Party's Cancelled https://soundcloud.com/roccow/partys-... F https://soundcloud.com/roccow/f-1?si=... Messeah https://soundcloud.com/roccow/messeah... FamiFunk Over Breakfast https://soundcloud.com/roccow/famifun... ========================================= ⏱️Chapters⏱️ 0:00 Intro 0:33 Build 1:42 The Bird Story 3:13 The Warrant's Cherry Pie 4:05 Plastic Adhesion Promoter 4:58 I Hurt Myself 6:03 The Bob Ross Moment 8:48 The Feet 9:35 The Wings 11:10 The Nest 11:47 Graffiti Sketching 12:45 Painting 13:44 Shoutouts 14:32 Fighting Crushing Self-Doubt 15:46 Graffiti 16:49 Weathering 17:44 Rust Application 19:01 Bird Eye Painting 19:19 Display Prep 20:49 Outro 23:00 Glamour Shots