Maybe next time I’m about to throw away some little piece of broken hardware, I’ll start sticking it to other broken bits, and make some of these little robot doohickey things.
Dylan Tinlun Chan is a genius, of sorts (and bit and pieces).
Very very cool, and unlike so many of the other do it yourself sites (like Hack-A-Day), this stuff looks like it could be made by non garage-full-of-ex-military-hardware types.
Like me.
January 30th, 2006 at 9:15 am
You could totally do that.
You know, I’m often disappointed with robots. I always have this tiny hope that they’ll be more than just machines. Something more than blenders.
Of course, then there’s the blender that responds to sound – which is the sort of machine I utterly heart. Unless it was called a robot. And then I’d be disappointed.
Crazytalk.
February 1st, 2006 at 9:32 pm
I think that’s mostly because we were so badly spoiled by that documentary about the Langford (Langdon?) institute with the “bugs” made from broken audio players and stuff.
Unless you’re in Japan, where the robots are getting WAY scary.