Part I
I began everything with the cyborg's ribcage. This was constructed using 17-guage wire and a random piece of metal that I found at Home Depot. I ran strands of wire one at a time from the ribcage out, and then wrapped each new "rib" with more wire to give it a spiralling, barbed wire kind of look.
The completed sternum and ribcage, complete with blood splatter! (cheap red nail polish)
And, of course, me posing with the ribcage. Scary!
I got these prescription bottles from a friend and used them to fill the cyborg's brain. They contained(at one point) a happy assortment of industrial-strength painkillers and "mood levellers". Names blacked out to protect the not-particularly-innocent.
This is the completed first phase of the cyborg. I gave him very toddler-like proportions; he was somewhere between 2 and 3 feet tall. The rest of his skeleton was built from a combination of thin rebar, a 45-degree pipe section, some T-intersection pipe fittings, and of course, lots and lots of wire.
A somewhat washed-out close up of Cyborg I's head, pill bottles in place. I also gave him a pair of pliars, so that he could continue to improve and expand himself. You can also see, towards the bottom of the photo, his heart, a kitchen timer.
A more straight-on photo of the chest and heart.