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Robot Arm "Clock" Writes the Time
erco
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2015-04-14 08:07
edited 2015-04-15 08:05
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Arduino, cumbersome, impractical, yet I cannot look away!
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Publison
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2015-04-14 08:27
edited 2015-04-14 08:27
Looks like he was going through and "erase" routine in the beginning, but did not have a dry erase board.
Your Visitor Badge printer produced a much better output, ( with an 8-bitter).
Electrodude
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2015-04-14 19:18
edited 2015-04-14 19:18
That must be fun having to change the paper every minute just to see the time!
mindrobots
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2015-04-14 19:30
edited 2015-04-14 19:30
It needs a second arm to put in a fresh piece of paper.
Electrodude
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2015-04-14 20:33
edited 2015-04-14 20:33
mindrobots
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It needs a second arm to put in a fresh piece of paper.
It should also come with its own paper recycling plant to avoid killing millions of trees.
Then there would be enough paper supply to update every second!
erco
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2015-04-14 21:08
edited 2015-04-14 21:08
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/play/918898/
xph
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2015-04-15 08:05
edited 2015-04-15 08:05
I've seen some of this robots and i think they're funny :-)
This bot seems to be a copy of other bots using a whiteboard, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSdylL9qs7o
...or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOLFP90DneY
Still somehow amusing to watch :-)
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Your Visitor Badge printer produced a much better output, ( with an 8-bitter).
It should also come with its own paper recycling plant to avoid killing millions of trees.
Then there would be enough paper supply to update every second!
This bot seems to be a copy of other bots using a whiteboard, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSdylL9qs7o
...or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOLFP90DneY
Still somehow amusing to watch :-)