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The red ring of death is an inevitable conclusion for most Xbox 360 owners. But instead of mourning his console's loss, U.K.-based student Jasper Stevens did something fun to give his lifeless and out-of-warranty Xbox 360 a second chance.
Stevens took it apart and harvested its parts to create a mechanical robot called Roboman.
"The copper wire used in the piece, the flexicable stuff and some other pieces of wiring is from outside," he says. "Everything else is from the Xbox."
It's the first sculpture he has made out of gadget parts. And it took just about three hours to create.
"My recent art exam was around the theme 'discarded' ," he says. "So I salvaged the parts and used some of the wire I had hanging around to make  this." Stevens then clicked a few photos and sent it to the Technabob blog.
The entire piece is connected using wiring and there's no glue or tape holding the parts together. The Xbox 360's DVD drive founds its place as the base of the sculpture. The robot's joints are flexible but it doesn't have any batteries so you can only move it around like an action figure.
Check out more photos of his fun and creative re-use of electronic parts.