Robot Arena

In preparation for our first booth at the Brooklyn Flea, I built a “robot arena”. It all started with the purchase of a folding table from craigslist. However, a normal folding table was just too boring for our booth so I had to come up with a way to make it look more robot-like and fun!

Criteria: 

• The table had to be easy to transport
• Had to look cool and robot-like
• Had to have some way to make sure the robots didn’t fall… broken robots are certainly not as fun!
• Had to be inexpensive

Solution: 

• Purple foam rubber sheets from Canal Rubber (Man, what a great store!)
• 32 6″ 1/4-20 bolts from Home Depot
• 210 1/4-20 nuts
• 24′ of bright licorice red tubing from Canal Rubber
• 48′ of shiny black tubing from Canal Rubber
• Two full rolls of double-sided tape
• A sharp utility knife
• A bit of patience

A few hours later and you have a pretty nice looking robot arena all set and ready to make it’s Brooklyn Flea debut!