photos?

What happened to photos on the front page. Those of us browsing from non-Froyo phones don’t have flash!

How I miss the blackandwhite photos.

I didn’t mean to spill the transmission fluid mammy! Hey Red, just gunna practice my stabin!

Why is this so dumb?

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The most impressive thing is how much work and humor they put into the twilio script. Now it would be great if they actually took a proper video to where you could hear what the heck was being said so we could laugh with them.

@DanS “Is anyone else underwhelmed by the video?”

Meeeeee!

I mean… WTF? And, they got a spot on stage with that thing??? Come on!

The robot doesn’t really have a purpose, all the actions are completely binary, so it’s impossible to control. Chess is out of the question, unless you’re talking about throwing pieces across the room. What else would you use it for?

Roberto’s (Futurama) great grand father:

http://capitalistliontamer.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/profiles-in-randomness-roberto/

Gizmodo reposted a blog story about the origins of the robot that apparently was done by a columbia student who saw it at a craft night event. It was pretty thoroughly researched albeit a bit erronous.

All we really know is that it at one point belonged to CCNY ( a community college ). It was manufactured in 1988. It was given to us by a guy who had it in his apt. He claimed to have found it in the trash on the literal curb. He was moving and wanted to get rid of it.

It’s since been repaired and several iterations of controller boxes have been built. The hackday saw the first use of relays to control the device and thus the first integration of a microcontroller and all the subsequent awesome attached to that.

The interesting part is that you can use an actual phone, using normal phone menus, to make a robot do something. This involves like 5 different layers of fairly complicated stuff, all communicating, to accomplish this.

That being said, this is a *robot* that can *stab* things, through an amusing phone interface. That’s pretty awesome. If anyone can make a better robot, with a better interface, that’s better at stabbing things, I would love to see it here on hackaday =)

One up us, by all means. Throw down the gauntlet.

@Matt: I think you mean *pick up* the gauntlet…

Also, it’s weird how one project can inspire so many Futurama references :P

@CG: Oww…