Comments on: Cakebot: mindstorm cake slicer

By: Toodles

Toodles — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:53:08 +0000

Wow this is worthless. Not only does it barely push the cake off onto the plate but when the base spins it breaks the cake in half. This whole thing just to push one pre set up piece… cause i guarantee it wouldnt be able to move the next one, unless they align it up perfectly thus defeating the purpose… what ever that is.

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:30:58 +0000

weaponized legos? click my name ;)

By: cfinger

cfinger — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:34:25 +0000

@11 – pkm:

holy crap, thats awesome. I wonder how many RCX bricks they used in that…

By: Schina

Schina — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:30:27 +0000

That freaks! I like your fancy, anyway:-)

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:54:41 +0000

oh come one… I expected a laser at least.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:39:42 +0000

2nd movie of cd thrower shows the floor is wobbling, is this a gravitational distortion effect due to the incredible rotation speed of the wheels?

By: lob

lob — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:08:02 +0000

Oh yeah? Check this out.

By: PKM

PKM — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:10:23 +0000

It's a nice idea- I like lego robots that actually do something in the real world rather than just more lego. Yes it's slow but until they sell a lego industrial robot like the wiibot arm, we'll have to put up with slow. The hammerhead is definitely worth a look, I'm almost inspired to have a go at something similar.

If hugely elaborate automated mindstorms machines are your thing, check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3AcPEPbH0

It's a 6 minute video of an automated lego production line building little cars (difficult to tell at first) that I'm very impressed by, primarily for the sheer engineering challenge of building lego that can assemble lego.

And for the record, marie antionette probably didn't say "let them eat cake"; the quote comes from 1740, when marie antoinette was about minus 9 years old.

By: Uberwon

Uberwon — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:32:59 +0000

"LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!"

Marie Antoinette

By: Mitten

Mitten — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:05:11 +0000

It’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake!

By: Darkwolf

Darkwolf — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:34:20 +0000

@7. Yes… Brings a whole new meaning to ‘Death by Chocolate Cake’!

Anyway… Cool Idea! Although I think I’m gonna point out the second link to my Engineering Club. Heh Heh Heh!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:17:57 +0000

@6

Now that would be the icing on the cake. Ba dum tish.

Novel idea, but I could never wait that long for cake.
Surely both links could be combined. With careful aim the hammerhead could not only slice quickly but also deliver your cake to you from a distance, although unexpected cake delivery could result in a sticky end.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:54:20 +0000

It needs a LEGO printer that prints some graphics on the top first, them cut and serve. :)

By: pretorious

pretorious — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:36:07 +0000

the second link is fuckin sweet…

By: killa62

killa62 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:15:26 +0000

haha, its really ghetto

but its cool
:P