Robotics Week Challenge #4: Message Me

erco

Thursday April 12th - “Message Me!”: Urban Dictionary explains that telling a person to "message me" is the same as saying "text me", but sounds a lot cooler, and has a nicer ring to it. As one of the most advanced microcontrollers around, our robots are able to communicate in a variety of ways. For this challenge, let's have our robots stump the humans and message us a joke, riddle or inspiration.

Another quickie from me. No time with income tax appointment looming tomorrow!

I went full-on old school: my old 1998 Parallax Growbot "texts" an old joke my phone using old Morse Code.

GordonMcComb

erco wrote: »

Another quickie from me. No time with income tax appointment looming tomorrow!

Glad to see you're a man who likes to get things done early!

erco

I'm definitely pro-crastination.

xanadu

Nice, that is great!

I started to work on something for robotics week, and realized that I have a wildly unfinished robot from last year. I'm working on that instead.

erco

Thanks, I took some liberties with my interpretation of "an hour of (Morse) code."

But overall, my minuscule efforts were eclipsed by Whit's. Dude went five for five!

Whit

erco wrote: »

But overall, my minuscule efforts were eclipsed by Whit's. Dude went five for five!

That is because the clergy only work on Sunday morning!

and my taxes were already done! ;-)

erco

I'm still waiting for Ken to chime in about my Growbot. I need to learn the storied history of this early robot.

New kit on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/PARALLAX-GROWBOT-ROBOT-KIT-NEW/141925023882

Whit

erco - remember this? https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/552623#Comment_552623

erco

Thanks Whit!