Omg I totally want to do this…. There was a Clemson University student by the name David Shelato. Who designed a wifi robot ..:virtually:.. the very same concept here. Every since I found out about Industrial Micro Controller/PLC “Cubloc I wanted to get one.. like most things that are sweet they cost a lot of money, yata yata yata.
http://www.shelato.com/SecurityRobot/

Posted at 4:07 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by kvmanii

Why would a gas company want to invest in solar panels.

IT MAKES NO SENSE!?

Posted at 5:15 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by epicelite

@epicelite easy, tehy are becoming a energy company

Posted at 5:18 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Simest

Why is this a “daily” featured hack?!?!

This is a BP ad campaign.

A side from that… where is the hack of some thing in to some thing else? The added solar panel, made by BP, or the BP sticker on the units?

*crying*
;-(
-Louis II

Posted at 5:40 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Louis II

Also… what happened to capital letters on the internet… they die or something?
;-p

Posted at 5:42 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Louis II

Says the person that uses no capitals in their posts.

Posted at 6:26 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by sinn2df

the comments section on this replaces upper case characters with lower for that cyberpunk feel.

Posted at 7:26 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by otis

He actually did use a capital ‘a’ in ‘also’, the first word of his post. The site, ‘multiple-crappy-news-items-and-a-single-good-hack-a-day’ uses a script that forces all letters to display lowercase. Copy and paste a post to notepad to see it in all it’s proper case glory.

Ironically my post is more of a hack than this article.

Posted at 7:40 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by jason

My local BP station has solar panels on its roof, enough to power unto 14 homes from memory.

Posted at 8:16 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Scott

Dude, that is pretty sweet. BTW, I went to Clemson as well – go Tigers!

Posted at 8:21 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Jeremy C

Mmm, 2 1/2 hr wait. Fun!

Posted at 10:08 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Jesse

WTF, it took out my capitals!

Posted at 10:10 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Jesse

What the heck? I waited 2 hours and 45 minutes+ only to receive a connection error and be put in the back of the line.. What gives!??!

Posted at 10:13 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by michaelb

I got control, but my cam was black yet I could supposedly “drive” the car.

And the billboards I’ve seen online in the course are WTFing me out.

Anyone got a code yet?

Posted at 10:50 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Dakota C

got two codes, but could not use them the second time, btw, it is very cool, very innovative, and makes you feel a bit like guys that are playing with mars pathfinder, or whatever they have on mars atm. Hardly a hack, but also have not seen anyone else with RC vehicle with web control panel.

Posted at 11:36 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by HE3r0

javascript:var s=document.stylesheets;if(s[0].addrule)s[0].addrule(“*”,”text-transform: none !important”,0);else s[0].insertrule(“* {text-transform: none !important}”, s.length);void(0);

Yep, throw that into your URL and hit go and your lowercase site woes have met their end. I suggest adding it as a bookmark so you just have to click to fix hackaday’s stubbornness.

Posted at 12:19 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Ross Snider

The trick to the script I just posted is this: They decapitolized my script and broke it. View source or capitolize the following:

- style_s_heets
- add_r_ule
- insert_r_ule

_letter_ = capitalize the letter

Posted at 12:23 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Ross Snider

Flash games?

Just piss off hackaday…. you’re dead to me now. :(

Posted at 12:50 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Geek505

It seems that *any* blog that lasts more than a year or so suddenly fills up with whiners who complain about how shitty the site has become. Geez, grow up guys – go somewhere else, or only read the entries you’re interested in.

As for this entry… well, I was waiting until the buzz had died down so I wouldn’t have to suffer a huge queue, and now I have to wait even longer. :p

Posted at 3:09 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by pelrun

G’day,
Being from Australia I can tell you this ploy from BP is a complete fraud!.

At the time of writing this it is night time Australia wide and I am 112 in line and watching a live feed of the robot in “daylight”… it will still be cool to drive a little robot though
Cheers,
Pete

Posted at 5:43 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Reaper

And what the hell is going on with capitols??

Posted at 6:33 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Reaper

I had a similar idea some time ago, making a real-life racing game between two or more RC cars. Trouble is the upstream speed on ADSL is too slow to send multiple video streams.

Posted at 6:52 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by srimech

I had a go on this, was brill! Reaper it is real, it’s set inside a big warehouse or something, you can see the sky is just painted on sheets or whatever because there are creases in it. It’s set indoors, with huge lights over it, for obvious reasons. Why would they advertise solar energy at night? :D I didnt bother getting any codes, just had fun making an ass of myself and running into as many other rovers as possible for a couple of minutes. Had about a 4 hour wait in the queue, just minimized it and went on with my work, kinda like ebay auctions! :P Btw, everyone who complains about hackaday: shush.

Posted at 7:45 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Vulpyra

I’m glad that they posted this. This is very interesting (from a robot controls viewpoint) and I’m glad I didn’t need to scour the net for it.

Posted at 9:15 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Odin

This thing is pretty lame, I sat and waited for 2+ hours like most others, only to get huge lag for four minutes, and thats it… Plus if you look at the live feeds the sky is totally faked.

Good day.

Posted at 10:54 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Mr. Mediocre

I’m confused — the robots are currently unavailable because they are being recharged by solar panels — at night. Is BP also the world’s leading provider of screen doors for submarines?

Posted at 5:53 pm on Aug 13th, 2008 by Confused

Yeah, bp has solar panels on their roof which charge big batteries.

Then they use those big batteries to charge the robot’s smaller batteries.

(Ever seen a solar powered torch? It’s just recharging a battery)

Posted at 8:31 pm on Aug 13th, 2008 by michael

Anyone know if it’s outdoors? I presumed it was in a dome or something…
Tried queueing for 2.5 hours once and got to 5 mins then bumped to 1.5 hours, then finally when time was up I got told the ’show’ was closed for the day. Damn other-side-of-world-ers.

Posted at 2:48 am on Aug 15th, 2008 by hutch

Its indeed some plastic foil dome. I saw it clearly driving onto one of the bridges

Posted at 7:19 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by Michaël

I’ve driven these now a few times, there was a while when one of the cars had a blacked out screen due to a broken video camera, i also managed to make the camera freeze after ramming it off the bridge,

Posted at 7:09 am on Aug 21st, 2008 by sprocket

I took a run-up at one of the rock walls:

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6915/bpexplorer21331hz0.jpg

Posted at 9:51 pm on Sep 13th, 2008 by gm

I live in Australia, and I didn’t have to wait at all it’s
quite a fun little experience.

Posted at 3:06 am on Sep 15th, 2008 by Sammy