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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. Drag by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I would get very worried if my power tools started running around wearing women's clothing. Or any clothing at all, for that matter. Spooky.

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    1. Re:Drag by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Funny

      I took my sabersaw onto the train the other day, and people looked at me funny and called me mean names. I think they were offended by the nude power tool...

      So then I dressed my sabersaw in a sundress, and now none of the other riders bothers me any more. In fact, I have a whole train car to myself...

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  2. How much AI in these? by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Robot Wars phenomenon, begun in San Francisco, gave rise to Comedy Central's "Battlebots" and a similar new show on Tech TV.

    I always found Battlebots to be more like remote control cars on steroids. What I want is something with a little more AI, like Honda's ASIMO (or whatever its called), give those guys a sword, shield, and we'll have Light Ages of Camelot - Live!

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  3. 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?

  4. do they resemble... by spammyy · · Score: 4, Funny

    derigiderbils? (or happy furry party gerbiloons?)

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  5. Uh oh. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I know who took the Segway.

  6. 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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  7. Re:Not the real thing by srmalloy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Damn, screwed up the links. Here they are again:

    National Belt Sander Racing Association
    International Belt Sander Drag Race Association
    Tyrol Basin Belt Sander Races
    North Liberty Belt Sander Races

  8. 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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  9. other odd things that get raced by UnixRevolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    besides the lawnmower races mentioned by someone else (i've actually seen these on tv, they're pretty funny), people also race:

    Tractors
    Shopping carts (motorized)
    golf carts
    rubber band/spool racers

    people, especially americans, will race damn near anything.

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