A couple of months ago, [Mike] started saving bones from all the fried chicken he had been eating. If that’s the opening line, you know it’s going to be good.
This Cyborg Chicken project grew out of [Mike]’s love for battlebots, and an immense dearth of battleborgs. The difference, though small, is distinct: a robot is simply a machine that carries out instructions either automatically or via remote control. A cyborg, on the other hand, contains both organic and biomechatronic body parts. Since [Mike] was saving chicken bones, he stumbled upon the idea of creating a cyborg out of trash, a few servos, an MSP430, and some other parts sitting around in his junk drawer.
A continuation of an earlier remote controlled food project, the capabilities of these chicken battleborgs are about what you would expect: they roll around on wheels and flail their drumsticks wildly. [Mike] has already built at least two of these devices, and the result is accurately described as Rock ’em Sock ’em Borgs. Check out the video below for the action.
On the hardware side of things, [Mike] picked up an MSP430, and whipped up a bit of code in Java. Three billion enterprise computing systems and, now, two cyborg chickens run Java. The motors and drivers come from Pololu, and control is provided over IR with a pair of Atari joysticks.
You can check out the videos of these cyborg chickens below. If you have to ask why, the answer is always, ‘because’.
This. This is why I browse this website obsessively at 9am, 12am 4:30pm, 12pm, 3am, 5am…..
We have an RSS feed. You can automate this. :)
More HaD chick-bait… On par with those mechanized vegetables from a few months back
Chick-bait?? Very good. LoL ;)
That’s just sick and wrong. Well done! This is why I love reading Hackaday!
Today sir, YOU have won the internet.
I agree. :)
Anything unoriginal to say, annoying internet plebian?
I am waiting for this chicken to host a TV show based on stop-motion animation using old toys.
WTF.
Good find, Brian!! Gary Larsen would be proud.
*Larson, the creator of the Far Side cartoon.
Billy Witch Doctor.com approves.
Billy Witch Doctor.com more comfortable with chicken.
One convenient location: In Africa
Definitely hacking. This is what they do when they can’t figure out what to do but still must do.
Clickbait? Perhaps. Clicked cause I needed the laugh.
“cluckbait”.
Some things I would never know about, never think about, but for Hackaday !
“Very very long ago, in the 21st century, primitive roboticists carved animal bones to make their tools of survival. See here this example of a fierce robot defender, probably intended to guard the roboticist’s cave and prized possessions within such as his colecovision and ps4.”
Lol i LITERALLY sent the ATHF clip of the arise chicken arise episode earlier today! ROFL
Repeat after me: “I Am…”
I am sofa king wee todd ed
Ha that is pretty cool :) The full chicken reminds me of the little alien parody in Space Balls that sings and dances. Just needs a top hat :)
I see now that the I must animate the husk of the deer I slay and defeat this chicken monstrosity.
Super Mega Ultra Chicken… Shhh he is legend.
You may laugh now but after Skynet is finished it will be your body parts on bots.
The layout of the eyes/head looks like jarjar binks
The chicken isn’t even alive. I feel cheated.
I think I need to clean my glasses… I read ar*e chicken ar*e.. in a “Father Jack” voice..
(NSFW – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI-WRb2u4po )
I “traumatized” my sister into being a vegetarian for many years by taking two drumsticks and “walking” them across my plate, making bawking noises…. Oh, if I’d only had access to this technology 25 years ago… She probably would have killed me. Or starved to death.
Glorious! Chicken robot with IR control. If someone makes a similar robot from a baboon, we can call it I R Baboon :-)
You do realize, that this is how it all starts? The robo-zombie-chicken army will join Skynet and take over the world… ROTL
The only legal form of cock fighting.
Clearly you have never visited San Francisco.
… so is this how the robot masters of megaman get started? We got armored armadillo, launch octopus, chill penguin, storm eagle, spark mandrill, flame mammoth, sting chameleon, boomer kuwanger, and finally IR death nightmare chicken … sounds legit!
Well, I’d say this is as relavent as it will ever be…
https://youtu.be/QmRA2dhQLmU
Now do the neck, head, beak, comb and wattles. Naked and ugly. What are those feet? Some dried pickled food item from… or just printed plastic? Or do you have a coop?
Check out early work by Survival Research Laboratories. Animal parts & machinery.
Reminds me the rat LED trhowie: http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Throwie-Rat-or-Mouse/
And the mouse-mouse: http://www.instructables.com/id/Mouse-Mouse!/
No.
+1
Ah, god. Dude. Gross. And so cool. Reminds me of Reanimator from, like, the 80’s.
Okay, not gunna lie, seeing the first vid with the chicken bones creeped me out a bit, but the fight was amazing. :D 10/10
Reminds me the rat LED trhowie: <a href="http://www.
Reminds me the rat LED trhowie: <a href="http://www.
Funny but also creepy as heck at 3 am.
Funny but also creepy as heck at 3 am.
Reminds me the rat LED trhowie: <a href="http://www.