Cleaining eh’?

Posted at 8:15 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by cleaining?

robots for what?
the best way to clean windows is to delete
the ntfs partition.

Posted at 8:23 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by happypinguin

Anyone know which MSU they’re talking about?

Posted at 8:41 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by crizo

Now all we need is a robot to clean the suction cup marks off

Posted at 9:10 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by defyboy

@crizo
Michigan state university.

@defyboy
this entire article is about the fact that it doesn’t use suction cups. Congratulations.

Posted at 9:25 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by captain obvious

Didn’t try very hard -http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gravity-Wall-Climbing-Remote-Control/dp/B000P19YDI

Posted at 9:36 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by Sean

@sean
I think they found that and linked to it on youtube. it looks like they meant a commercial vacuum powered window cleaner.

Posted at 9:41 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by captain obvious

this robot sucks

Posted at 9:53 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by rasz

@rasz: i lol’ed.

Posted at 10:31 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by slurrp

I watched the show oin Discovery Channel last night, was covering repairing a Ship Engine….had a huge magnetic one that stripped paint off of the hull of a cruise ship…..

Tom

Posted at 10:55 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by Tom

While it is an interesting robot and I do take my hat off to it, its not exactly revolutionary, Its entertaining but its been done before. The most glaring hole in its pedigree in my book is what appears to be a basic stamp ….. personally won’t touch them with a 10ft pole.

They probably could have easily worked it out so it made it to the upper window, had they made their own board that was not unnecessarily garmongous. Tho not knowing the rules perhaps they were required to use some predetermined parallax components.

Posted at 11:09 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by Scuffles

if they had an electrical engineer maybe they wouldnt have used a crappy Basic stamp and BOE board ;p

Posted at 11:20 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by rivetgeek

“if they had an electrical engineer maybe they wouldnt have used a crappy Basic stamp and BOE board ;p”

It’s true. Put a mechanical engineer and electronics in a room together and the only product will be sadness.

Posted at 11:31 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by dan

very nice! I would like to have one :-)

Posted at 11:51 am on Dec 4th, 2008 by A.

JESUS look at the bags under his eyes – The True sign of effort XD.

Posted at 1:36 pm on Dec 4th, 2008 by rbz.

I would suspect it uses the batteries fast keeping the suction.

Posted at 3:14 pm on Dec 4th, 2008 by John Berube

basic stamps aren’t all that bad. yeah they’re overpriced and slow, but if you just want to hack something simple you can’t beat ‘em for easy development, and the little sip version bs1 is real convenient having the voltage regulator and reset circuit built onto a real package with nice big pins. that boe board though has no place off the proto bench.

Posted at 4:56 pm on Dec 4th, 2008 by localroger

Is it me or is alot of videos getting removed from youtube? I mean everyone posted on any forum, blog or digg are removed… :(

Posted at 5:31 pm on Dec 4th, 2008 by hackfu

@hackfu,

If you’re talking about the hated message “We’re sorry, but this video is no longer available” or some such,

1. I complained about this to Hackaday three months ago, and they replied approximately, “Problem, what problem? The video is still there. Must be some problem with YouTube.”

2. My son showed me that Internet Explorer is fussy this way, and that Firefox will play a hugely larger percentage of YouTube videos. I FOUND THIS TO BE TRUE. Got me a copy of Firefox and now anytime I can’t see the YouTube video I copy the address, launch Firefox, paste the address and away I go, watching the video.

Posted at 7:31 pm on Dec 4th, 2008 by gyro_john

Wow… for an engineer she (Emily) was fairly cute ;-)

Posted at 8:53 pm on Dec 4th, 2008 by Scott B.

@scott b.

the point of me looking through these comments was to see if anyone else was going to state the obvious that the girl was cute in this video (i agree) also @previous comments in HS Adv. Electronics i used several BOE boards and they aren’t all that bad…i mean they got the job done here right?

Posted at 2:53 am on Dec 5th, 2008 by numnum

@gyro_john

your still using IE? wow bud get on the FF bandwagon.

Posted at 2:54 am on Dec 5th, 2008 by numnum

@captain obvious

On re-read you’re probably right but in my defense the original link mentions a product, links to a video of something and then says it couldn’t be found…..I should have read the bad copy more closely.

Posted at 6:36 am on Dec 5th, 2008 by Sean

maybe magnet on other side of glass would work way better then suction, when you cleaning window you need to clean glass on both sides anyways right ?

Posted at 8:28 pm on Dec 5th, 2008 by therian

Would be neat for a hi-rise that was all smooth on the outside. Only thing is some way to guarantee that it wouldn’t fall off and clonk somebody on the head.

Also would be cool to have a solar cell to keep the AAs charged up.

Posted at 7:29 pm on Dec 6th, 2008 by my2cents

So, uh, how’s it get from window to window?

Posted at 6:31 am on Dec 31st, 2008 by Aaron

Whoa! thats the third actual robotic window cleaning thing ive seen in a couple of years. Ive seen one actually for high rise that moves up and down some safety ropes. And another automated one for residential. If these things really catch on they could put the window cleaning industry out of business.

Posted at 9:38 pm on Aug 7th, 2009 by Brian