» robots http://mayorawesome.com Sun, 20 May 2012 18:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Topobo Kinetic Robot System http://mayorawesome.com/2009/02/16/topobo-kinetic-robot-system/ http://mayorawesome.com/2009/02/16/topobo-kinetic-robot-system/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:38:28 +0000 Mayor Awesome http://mayorawesome.com/?p=128 topobo
Now here’s a toy worth goofing around with. Although crazy expensive, it might be worth it, if only to have something to annoy my cats with. From BoingBoing Gadgets:

Topobo is a construction kit with “kinetic memory”, which mostly means that you teach the little motors in its joints how to move by physically twisting and shaping them with your hands. Some parts will respond directly to your ministrations, while others are slaved to “queen” parts and mimic her movements.


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Check out his website. I havent’ gotten through all of the videos, but in order to build his robot, he first has to build a workshop. So he starts there. Did I mention that’s he’s completely off the grid? Yeah. Dude is making this robot from scratch, with very little resources. 
 

 
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