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awbball11awbball11 Posts: 17
edited 2009-01-07 05:13 in Robotics
· Hello there. My name is Adam Wilbanks and I have created a blog specifically for robotic builders, hobbyist, etc. I would like you to check it out. I will post things most every day, respond to questions, and share ideas with each other. I will also be posting on there my greatest achievement which is the Boe-Bot that runs off hydrogen. It not only runs of hydrogen but it makes the hydrogen and burns it at the same time on the robot. It doesnt just use already made hydrogen. This will be posted in a couple months but you will be pretty amazed by it as it amazed me. So I· would really appreaciate if you would check out my blog and please post a comment. Thanks.

http://www.a-robotix.blogspot.com/

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  • boe-crazyboe-crazy Posts: 53
    edited 2009-01-05 01:55
    dont tell me you used a hydro car, did you?

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  • awbball11awbball11 Posts: 17
    edited 2009-01-05 02:59
    Sure Did!!!! Did you happen to look at my blog and post a comment?
  • boe-crazyboe-crazy Posts: 53
    edited 2009-01-05 03:57
    no, but I got a hydrocar for christmas and was eyeing it mischeviously and thought hydrogen + boe bot = cool.

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  • awbball11awbball11 Posts: 17
    edited 2009-01-05 04:32
    ok for the record it was my idea first!!! anywho I have it and I am 13 and did a science fair project on it and won! but soon I will apply it to my boe bot. As soon as I compete in science fair regionals. but yeah
  • boe-crazyboe-crazy Posts: 53
    edited 2009-01-06 01:17
    cool, Its your Idea but I also thought of it but I didnt know you existed so I still get some credit.l

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  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2009-01-06 02:04
    Inventions have shifted away from the lone inventor sitting in a closet and moved to massive industries. That's not to say that lone inventors aren't out there, but they tend to get put out of business by the very things they work on: as technology progresses, it gets more complicated and expensive to enter and experiment, so there are less soloists. Anyway, credit is a tough thing. Unless you get a working model out, then it's very difficult to 'prove' anything. Point is: get it working and posted in the completed projects forum, and you won't have that sort of problem.

    Good Luck.
  • soshimososhimo Posts: 215
    edited 2009-01-06 02:12
    @SRLM So true. Establish precedence then any later claim to IP ownership is much easier to maintain. There have been patent suits won over the fact that a white paper was published months before something was actually prototyped.

    Oh, and to the OP - good job getting everything going! Very impressive - at your age I was still collecting baseball cards and hoping for a Steve Garvey wink.gif.
  • awbball11awbball11 Posts: 17
    edited 2009-01-06 04:31
    haha thanks. my project was testing different amounts of water to see which would run the car most efficiently. if I made the boe bot and posted it would the credit be all I get or could you know people ask me to make it on a larger scale? or parallax could make a hydrogen version of the boe bot. haha. I'm through with science in a few more months and then ill have it posted! and yes I suppose you get some of the credit.
  • awbball11awbball11 Posts: 17
    edited 2009-01-06 04:31
    haha thanks. my project was testing different amounts of water to see which would run the car most efficiently. if I made the boe bot and posted it would the credit be all I get or could you know people ask me to make it on a larger scale? or parallax could make a hydrogen version of the boe bot. haha. I'm through with science in a few more months and then ill have it posted! and yes I suppose you get some of the credit.
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2009-01-06 05:00
    Personally, I doubt that Parallax will make a hydrogen powered BOE-BOT (or anything for that matter). Parallax is an electronics company, and focuses on electrical circuits and computer programming, not specialty physics demonstrations. Also, I'm guessing that batteries will last longer than a hydrogen based solution, and be easier to implement for the hobbyist that Parallax targets. Of course, I could be totally off here, but it's probably a pretty good assessment.
  • awbball11awbball11 Posts: 17
    edited 2009-01-06 21:46
    My plan is to run the boe bot off of the batteries but use the hydrogen to charge the batteries. In that case i'll need to use rechargeable batteries. Ive done it before just not on a boe bot.
  • boe-crazyboe-crazy Posts: 53
    edited 2009-01-07 05:13
    cool.

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