[1]    The FIRST step is to know, define, or imagine what or who your android is to look like. This implicitly requires the explicit statement of phenotype and anthropometric values like sex, age, race, build, height and other general anthropometric descriptors. Defining or specifying is usually done with the assistance of a photograph or sketch of your android's likeness or with your imagination. Some individual software traits should be stated. This Step represents the "First `Day'" by itself in many of the novels. Its real time work could be a day by the time all of the material is gathered and data is captured into the model worksheet file. In a way, this Step formalizes the conception of an android.

[2]    Then the SECOND Hatfield Type Android making step is to adjust, initialize, produce, or make your android's Articulation Diagram. This diagram is important because it sets body proportions and provides a frame for the face image matrix or vectors. Encode the android definition into the worksheet. The Articulation Diagram is from a new Step invented during a recent; late 1997; pro forma engineering account and it starts the "Second `Day!'."

[3]    Fit the body model to the desired appearance and anthropometrics is the THIRD android making Step. This generates the X - Y - Z mathematical Skin Surface Model in an electronic spreadsheet , the MODELn.WQ1 file.. Make a three-dimensional representation of a desired android. Preview the image to assure the values are as close to correct as possible for the desired resemblance. Recurse these two steps; this and the previous; until you are satisfied that the image presented is the likeness you seek.

[4]     Step FOUR: Use the respective Tissue Thickness Chart differences from the Skin Surface Model to determine the Skeletal Surface Model. This is the X - Y - Z coordinates, similar to the Skin Surface Model, of skeletal elements (bones) which their hard shape forms the android's appearance by face shape and body proportions. This step is to determine the size and shape of frame elements. The Skin Surface Model is needed for th ese functions. Forensic sculpting is the specialty which puts an unknown face on a skeleton , but this step includes the inverse operation. The same spreadsheet aids this work.

[5]     Step FIVE: Produce the Working Drawings and specifications for the bones from the tissue support surfaces of skeletal elements. Consider the effect of cartilage, curvatures, processes, and other items. This could be considered a "benchmark step" because the output is usually associated with most any project's "deliverable." This step uses the output of the previous steps to help produce the several plates required for your android's frame. This point is a milestone. If you are using the handbook to help you make your android, you should have a set of drawings describing the size and shape of the bones for your android. The next few processes form the skeletal elements and articulate the frame.

[6]     Design and Engineer, or specify, the necessary forms, molds, machinery, and Jigs and Fixtures (using the previous results) is Step SIX of this android making sequence. Determine the specifications of what can be purchased and the requirements for what must be made. A mind experiment conducted in late 1997 suggested the original single `Jigs and Fixtures' step be parsed into two steps. This separated designing and engineering from fabrication or acquiring. The end of the basic designing and engineering work is done at the end of this step, but that does not rule out recursive redesigning and re-engineering.

[7]     Step SEVEN: Acquire or fabricate the necessary tools, machinery, forms, molds, jigs, and fixtures. Of course, the quality of these will affect the quality of your android. Some novels may complete the "Second `Day.'"

[8]    Step EIGHT: Make the frame elements and test their fit and articulations. There is a major suitability inspection of the skeleton prior to the gluing . This Step starts the "Third `Day'" in novels. The Spinal cord must be incorporated within the Spinal column because the vertebrae must be made, connected with intervertebral disks, and sealed in its encasement ligatures during the appropriate Step.

[9]    Step NINE: Make the mind. This step uses existing software bases and sources modified as needed for the android as previously defined. Making and attaching the spinal cord is a major part of the brain. It covers the gathering, making, incorporating, and testing the neural components and any sub-processors. This step continues to the upload and retention of necessary software and data as part of any test procedure. This almost could represent an entire `Day.'

[10]    Assemble the first definable layer by assembling the spinal column and incorporating it within the skeleton. This is the complete articulated skeleton with the Spinal cord and column assembled as the frame to build an android upon.

First definable layer;
(Spinal cord

    (These "definable layers" are loosely coupled to the fabrication steps and display functional equivalencies between biologic and androtic systems.) Thus Step TEN is to make ready for the `Make and Install the Deepest Actuators' Step (muscles and other tissue equivalents), on the "Third `Day.'" An articulated frame is the next milestone. After that, your android may need to be completed before you see another landmark. However, would that not be the climax of this project?

[11]    The Eleventh Step is to Seat the Mind. Insert the inner skull components from the eyes, inside to the computation modules , and then thread any sense or control leads along the neck . The vertebral foramen got the Spinal Cord threaded within a previous Step. This step includes a large part of the third definable layer.

Third definable section (partial);
Senses
Vision

Brain Functions
Cognitive

Muscles and tendons

[12]    Assemble the second definable layer from the innermost parts outward.

Second definable layer;
Digestive

Nervous system

    (Some functional testing is necessary by this phase.) Thus continues android making with Step TWELVE: Make and Install the Intermediary layers of actuators, sheathing, shaping support, and other tissue equivalents laminated within the deeper layer. This starts the "Fifth `Day.'"

[13]    Assemble the remainder of the third definable layer from the innermost parts outward.

Third definable section (remainder);
Tissue emulations
Pulse

Human likeness

    (Not all of these equivalent systems may be implemented.) Thus continues android making with Step THIRTEEN: Make and Install by lamination the support or ` Base of Human Likeness' (final or outermost layer of actuators, sheathing, shaping support, and other tissue equivalents).

[14]     The FOURTEENTH STEP: Make and apply the (fourth and) final layer.

Final definable layer;
Skin

    ( At this point, your android is nearing completion and should appear nearly as desired when completed.) This Step: Apply external elements starts the "Sixth `Day'" in the novels.

[15]     Step FIFTEEN: Final test your android's systems. By now your android should be quite human in appearance. However, your android's systems need to be examined and final tested and inspected .

[16]     Step SIXTEEN: Prepare for Presentation. Dress and prepare your android for presentation. This step includes initiating personal documentation. The android creation certificate and petition, Petn.INC, can be associated with this Step .

[17]     On this "Seventh `Day,'" "rest" with your android! By now, this should be very restful and rewarding. Live with your android. After this point, they must be referred to by the same pronouns as human beings.after all, they were made in the image of a human.

    Could you have some religious taboo against making an android? Probably not if you have purchased this book and are seriously considering doing so. Since the subject has been queried, let us examine matter.

    An android could be construed to be a "graven image." If an android is a graven image because it is in the form of a human being created by a human, think of the theological question that suggests: "Can God create a graven image if a particular image copied by his creation becomes graven?" Assuming that a good operational definition of graven image is; the form, illustration, representation, etc. of an entity that is not of the Holy God, and that this image receives homage, respect, worship, deference, etc. that rightfully belongs to God. A suitable synonym for "graven image" could be an "idol."

    The English language is too powerful to use "idol" and "graven image" that interchangeably. Suppose the graven means that the source of the image is lower on the "pecking order" than the one who is making it, as opposed to an idol where it is an image of some entity that the crafter perceives as higher in the cosmic scheme. For example, if a chimpanzee was making an effigy of a fish, that would be a graven image. If that same chimp could make a doll in the image of Dolly Parton, that would be an idol.

    Idolatry might be a problem, however, existential pragmatists are more comfortable with a more utilitarian explanation: Once an inventor has blown the steam of their fantasy off in the whistle, there is no real reason to make a device in the form of a human for it still can do no work. If you need a typist, hire a secretary. If you need your house cleaned, commandeer the necessary brooms and any labor saving device and get-about it. If you are going away, let an answering machine take your calls. If you are sexually self-stimulated, ... well, that is not the purpose of this project.

    Unlike the previous steps, there is no need to have chapters later expanding the discussion on that procedure.

See the encyclopedia entries "Structure of the Plans" and "Summary of Steps," at this associated step for some more thoughts. It would be obscenely redundant to copy that material here for this functional document, especially since this list is only touched from the same source.

[18]    (Growth. By this point, what is left?)

These are the basic steps. There is no requirement that the subsequent chapters expand on these one-step to one-chapter. Some sub-steps may require more explanation. The encyclopedia covers these Steps a bit deeper, but not as deep as the handbook volumes.