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Power Tool Drag Races

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the man-with-the-two-angle-grinders dept.

The SF Chronicle has a piece on power tool drag races. Best quote: "There are very few happy, bouncy, fuzzy robots."

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  1. tim the tool man taylors dream come true. by Brigadier · · Score: 2, Interesting



    I'm sure they must have covered this in a few episodes. I saw a show on TLC about racing riding lawn mowers at speeds up to 50 mph.

  2. Racing other equipment by Turing+Machine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So if these are like drag races, would walking disk drives be the equivalent of a tractor pull/monster truck event?

  3. Belt sander drag races by Elvisisdead · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is where it all started. The International Belt Sander Drag Race Association.

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  4. I've seen fuzzy robots! Woe unto man. by flyneye · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've never heard anyone here discuss SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABS.
    I've seen fuzzy robots in their videos.Of course
    it was usually a robot clothed in a dead rotting animal carcass.
    SRL was probably the great grandfather precursor to battlebots(which I've always found to be waaaay wimpy compared to SRL)
    The difference being many of SRLs robots are industrial size,insanely dangerous and operate under much less stringent rules of conduct than battlebots.
    Mark Pauline the founder is a fantastic gearhead-artist-geek.Check out the SRL site at http://www.srl.org/

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