Comments on: Winboni, a window cleaning robot

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:38:45 +0000

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.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:31:08 +0000

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

By: my2cents

my2cents — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:29:44 +0000

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.

By: therian

therian — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:28:16 +0000

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 ?

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:36:14 +0000

@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.

By: numnum

numnum — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:54:59 +0000

@gyro_john

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

By: numnum

numnum — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:53:07 +0000

@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?

By: Scott B.

Scott B. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:53:52 +0000

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

By: gyro_john

gyro_john — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:31:24 +0000

@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.

By: hackfu

hackfu — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:31:42 +0000

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

By: localroger

localroger — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:56:42 +0000

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.

By: John Berube

John Berube — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:14:56 +0000

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

By: rbz.

rbz. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:37 +0000

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

By: A.

A. — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:51:26 +0000

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

By: dan

dan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:31:55 +0000

“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.