We thought we were going to read an article about, perhaps, a quadcopter that could fetch beer, or donuts. What we got was more along the lines of a donut dragging itself across the floor, rendering it pitiful and advisibly indigestible.
Sometimes people joke about not wanting to get in mind of a crazy person. We understand. While we could certainly follow [Michael Kohn]’s logic, the motivation was alien. Either way, in a rare turn of events there was not a single Arduino to be seen; just reverse engineering, unique solutions, and even a custom board. This is what some of you have been asking for… we think.
The brain of the questionable contraption is a TI MSP430G2231 and a tiny forward only motor driver circuit. The MSP waits for a signal from a hacked IR remote control from a cheap RC car. It then turns those into the appropriate motor control signals which go to some of those nice tiny metal gearboxes.
There were, naturally, a lot of technical issues in mounting the electronics to the food that, well… they didn’t need to be solved, but they were solved. For example, masking tape apparently does not stick well to green peppers, so toothpicks must be employed to pin the tape in place. Hopefully knowledge like this is scheduled for the nightly wipe while we sleep, but we’ll probably hold onto it till we die, unlike expensive piano lessons.
In the end we had a good laugh, and the idea is so dumb it will probably be an educational Kickstarter next week. Video after the break.
Lol the sausage looked the best but the carrot certain had the best handling
I don’t know; the paddler powered pepper certainly got my vote (seemed to be very controllable and looked the business)
Excellent delivery system, now we just need to expand the idea a little…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJxYH6d15s
The present storyline in the Vexxarr webcomic involves ships crewed by cyborg cake and pastries. The goal is to get the comestible crewed ships attacked by the Lattrox, which will consume the tasty, tasty crew. Unfortunately for the poor Lattrox, the cake they love the taste of is lethal to them.
Wonder if they’ll build one that can handle a lot of currant
Yeah, one that could handle some real juice would be nice.
Put a RaspberryPi in it!
Or…
If you did put a raspberryPi on it, you could run it as ROOT!
Get enough current and you can have a gherkin headlights :D
Unlike the author, I find this concept quite apple-ing. I don’t think you should squash someone elses inventiveness. Orange you glad you know something new today. Lettuce give thanks to this new knowledge. Dill, I think they could have peared down the options and perfected the vehicles.
Off to go work on a banana-boat. hmmmm banana-catamaran?
A for effort, but apple-ing? With a-peel-ing on the table? It’s like you don’t carrot all. Come on son.
He also stopped beef-or my favorite food – a big missed-steak.
I thought I recognized that name! [Michael Kohn] writes a nice little assembler that targets a ton of microcontroller architectures. I’m no assembly language expert, but I found his assembler, naken_asm, to be the easiest to work with.
https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/naken_asm.php
Say what you will about this project. That pepper boat is delightful.
If only humanity had thought about hollowing out some large vegetable for water transit before.
Haha, very few people know what you are referring to. :)
I want to paddle-race you with an Atlantic Giant.
It made me laugh uncontrollably!
Maybe use lemon as source of power AND robot body!
Or better yet, make some sort of EEG for plants, and check if still-alive veggies can follow the line or evade edge of table!
…hmmm, back to the lab…
RC watermelon rolls around the yard.
Maybe a potato cut really thin and reassembled with metal and plastic plates to form a battery with lots of layers. Then have it power itself along the floor :D
This hack certainly gives new meaning to “playing with your food”. : )
Fast Food?
Sausage Party 2: Judgement Day!
This is more of a hack than most articles on the entire HAD site