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A Full-Size Remote-Control Car

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the standard-passtime-out-west dept.

Ant writes "A video clip (Windows Media Player required) the construction, operation, and demolition. It is a real-life remote control car with Knight Rider references!" The video works fine for me in xine (though sound dropped out for a bit). This car is not yet ready for the Las Vegas run, but if they hook up with some AI reseachers ...

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  1. scrapheap challenge by Rcknight · · Score: 4, Informative

    they did this on scrapheap challenge (uk equivalent of junkyard wars) too, bit they had to fight each other, theirs seem like a bit of a kludge compared to this one though :)

  2. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    in case someone needs a mirror.

  3. How far behind are the U.S again?? by Conor+Turton · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jeezuz. WE've had this for years in the UK. There's even a TV series called "Combat Cars" where they take a car, turn it into remote control, add armour and weapons then battle them in a "Robot Wars" type competition.

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    Conor "You're not married,you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart
  4. "media player required"? and mirror by brejc8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It plays fine with mplayer.
    And by the way the mirror is at the DMP
    Please add your own, my computer cant take too much.

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    Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
  5. Re:It's been done by beebware · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oooh - I pity their webhosts then. The redirect to port 19638 and /webhost/rollout shows that the site is running the Ensim control panel software which only mails our bandwidth warnings - it doesn't automatically suspend high bandwidth sites or provide other methods of throttling. This means that that shared server (which is the common enviornment for Ensim to run in) is probably waaay overloaded at this moment and many many many customers are suffering.