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  • Alex Franke
    Veteran Member
    • Feb 2007
    • 2641
    • Chapel Hill, NC
    • Ryobi BT3100

    #1

    SpoonBot...

    When we first moved out here to NC (2001-2), we lived in a small apartment with no room for a shop. I did manage to get some wood into a project, though. I just ran across this and couldn't resist posting it.

    It was the first version of what turned out to be a wife-chaser. It ended up with a camera on top (developed by the fine folks at CMU) that could track my wife if she wore a red dot on her shoe and didn't move too fast. :lol: Later I hacked an old speech synthesizer chip so I could make it compliment her as it chased her around ... but then I got a job and now he's just in a box somewhere.

    Notice the beadie eyes (they would wink) and sinister frown.

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  • lrogers
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    • Dec 2002
    • 3853
    • Mobile, AL. USA.
    • BT3000

    #2
    That is cool!
    Larry R. Rogers
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    • atgcpaul
      Veteran Member
      • Aug 2003
      • 4055
      • Maryland
      • Grizzly 1023SLX

      #3
      Cool. Can you make a video of it in action? I didn't realize how small it was
      until I saw the 9volt battery.

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      • crokett
        The Full Monte
        • Jan 2003
        • 10627
        • Mebane, NC, USA.
        • Ryobi BT3000

        #4
        That is way cool Alex!

        Several years ago I gave my buddy a Lego Mindstorm kit for Christmas. This one was a camera that you could program to track a given target - like a cat. He still says it was the coolest thing he ever got and has added a few kits to it - he added some wheels and made it a cat chaser, then he figured out how to get it to dispense cat food.
        David

        The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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        • Alex Franke
          Veteran Member
          • Feb 2007
          • 2641
          • Chapel Hill, NC
          • Ryobi BT3100

          #5
          Originally posted by atgcpaul
          Cool. Can you make a video of it in action? I didn't realize how small it was until I saw the 9volt battery.
          Alas, I don't have any video, unfortunately. And now it's in a box somewhere, only half assembled (disassembled?) because I got a job in the middle of trying to wire in the speech synthesizer.

          Originally posted by crokett
          That is way cool Alex!

          Several years ago I gave my buddy a Lego Mindstorm kit for Christmas. This one was a camera that you could program to track a given target - like a cat. He still says it was the coolest thing he ever got and has added a few kits to it - he added some wheels and made it a cat chaser, then he figured out how to get it to dispense cat food.
          Thanks Yeah Lego Mindstorm is great. Lego got together with MIT to developed it for school kids. After a little while on the market, the story goes, the realized that it's not the kids that were buying it!

          We have the LEGO-palooza event out here at the Morehead Planetarium, BTW. It's great fun http://www.moreheadplanetarium.org/i...ws_item&id=447
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          while ( !( succeed = try() ) ) ;
          "Life is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult." -Hippocrates

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