Electromechanical game: Running with the bulls

posted May 14th 2010 9:00am by
filed under: home entertainment hacks

[vime0 =http://vimeo.com/11700747]

We’ve been watching the progress of this build for a while on Flickr. It looks like they’ve finally completed the electromechanical game, Running with the bulls. Based off of the event by the same name, you have to keep your guy from being trampled by the bulls as the charge.  The entire bull structure is pulled forward on a timing chain with a stepper motor with each bulls individual side to side movement being servo driven. It actually looks kind of fun.



8 Responses to Electromechanical game: Running with the bulls

  • Bittencourt says:
    May 14, 2010 at 9:30 am

    Ops…I think there is something wrong with the embedded video

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  • fartface says:
    May 14, 2010 at 9:47 am

    um….. wierd…..

    why not just put a vibrator on a table and do it ala electronic football?

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  • Psyc0bob says:
    May 14, 2010 at 10:12 am

    did this just confuse anyone else?

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  • Justin says:
    May 14, 2010 at 11:51 am

    Ba-zing!

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  • walt says:
    May 14, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    WTF?
    not as retarded as the actual running of the bulls though. he gets points for this being more humane.

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  • mrgoogfan says:
    May 14, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    maybe this will fix it.

    [vimeo =http://vimeo.com/11700747]

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  • BigBubbaX says:
    May 14, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Sorry for the lack of personal opinion or input, but:

    “Based off of the event by the same name, you have to keep your guy from being trampled by the bulls as _they_ charge”

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  • Ivan says:
    May 15, 2010 at 11:26 am

    Clever! I’d guess he could also make one with a car running over a belt? I enjoyed the special effects :)

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