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Robo Flipper

ercoerco Posts: 20,257
edited 2015-02-14 06:23 in Robotics
I get offbeat ideas watching my girls play. Here are a bunch of dollar items: toy pans and clipboard are from the dollar store, and three Parallax servos are from a RadioShack selling them for under a dollar last year. Need more!

As for why I built this gizmo, I can only plead insanity.

Comments

  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-02-13 11:36
    Who is this guy erco, and how does he have all this time on his hands to produce these things. :)

    Oh, forgot , he's writing a book.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,257
    edited 2015-02-13 11:52
    More importantly, who is this guy Publison, and how does he have time to scan the forums constantly and reply to new posts within 6 minutes?
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2015-02-13 12:53
    All kidding aside, erco, that is pretty cool considering the parts used!!!!
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-02-13 12:59
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuAXcZmLNmM
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2015-02-13 15:11
    My absolute favorite part of that movie!!!!!
  • zappmanzappman Posts: 418
    edited 2015-02-13 15:42
    Flip, Flip, Flip, Flip, ..... Oops.

    Nice little toy you created, I like the use of the blue tape.
  • Duane DegnDuane Degn Posts: 10,588
    edited 2015-02-13 17:16
    That's fantastic erco!

    Plea accepted.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,257
    edited 2015-02-13 18:51
    zappman wrote: »
    I like the use of the blue tape.

    My red tape didn't work at all.
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2015-02-14 03:41
    This is neat, but it's also art worthy of display at the ICA.

    It's Sisyphean because it demonstrates the repetitive, and ultimately futile nature of existence. The robot struggles with its eternal task knowing that failure is inevitable. But the robot continues its revolt against the absurdity of existence in an unintelligible void.

    Medium: servos, plastic, and clipboard.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,257
    edited 2015-02-14 06:23
    Dayum dat's def deep, Dawg!
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