Bot-bash ballet
Surprisingly charming, balletic, super-slow-mo video of bots bashing the dickens out of each other (and various other objects). Filmed at Carolina Combat 2008 with a Casio Exilim EX-F1 camera. Carolina Combat 2008 [Thanks, Mark!]
Robotics
Robot muffin man
Two Industrial Electrical Technician students built this automated muffin-making machine. The video captions are in French and there are no details about the construction, but it’s still kind of cool to watch. Machine à Muffins Automatisée [via]
May Dorkbot DC, Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Mark Your Calendars! Next Meeting: Tuesday 27 May 2008 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: St. Stephen’s Church’s auditorium hosted by HacDC 1525 Newton St NW (near 16th and Newton NW) Washington, DC 20010 NOTE: This meeting will take place at St. Stephen’s Church (thank you HacDC!), and will include an exclusive […]
Pleo goes to Sea World
There’s been a lot written about how humans anthropomorphize Pleo – but even dolphins are fascinated! This is an amazing video. Sirensgrotto says that Pleo reacts positively to the dolphins, too. Related: Hack the Pleo robotic dinosaur new dev forum and scripting now available BREAKING NEWS: MySkit – Performance editor for PLEO
Robot Spirograph
Cool long-exposure photography using a two-wheeled Picaxe-powered robot as the light-source. I like the use of the CD jewel case as a bot body. Lenny’s Blog
Pummer pics on Make: Pool
Pummer pics, and brief vid, in the Make: Flickr Pool. Pummer gathering sun (3/4 right view) Related: HOW TO – Make a pummer – Part robotic plant life, part techno-sculpture Part robotic plant life, part techno-sculpture, these desktop toys are easy and fun to make, the pummer! – and hey, it’s Friday so here’s a […]
Cylons draw near
The first wave of entries for our “Make a Cylon” contest have started to roll in – looks like we’re in for a wide variety of work with this one – and in case you haven’t heard yet, Flickr now does video! This is great timing for the Cylon contest – those LED visors don’t […]