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The Crawlspace Tankcam
Saint Aardvark writes "Here's a page on the fun you can have with a remote control Abrams tank and a wireless video camera. "I really wanted a way to look for under house leaks and stuff and, in the manner of a responsible home owner, get early warning so I could increase the effectiveness of... Ok, that's a lie. In reality, I wanted an excuse to put a camera on my R/C tank and drive it around scary tunnels, and this just happened to fit my purposes perfectly." Movies included!"
"Nothing to see in these dark tunnels, move along..."
Now all we need is laser tag gear and it's ready for front yard battles!
Boys! - were going in. Shoot it in the CPU!
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I have good Karma, I moderate fairly. What did I do to deserve this?
My hosting service just caught fire.
All I know is, when I write Porky's IV, it'll have this device in it.
Kids these days. They don't know the difference between classic, and just plain old.
Just tell me when they get a fricken argon laser beam on it.
It looks like he was almost eaten by a grue.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
Got stuck on a rock? Maybe it has the same syndrome that the Mars rover had ;)
99 bottles of beer in 175 characte
... the best part of both vids is the soundtrack. That kid sounds so cute! esp the "My pizzaaa!" bit.
..that this guy is married and not in attendance at any middle school/high school/place with changing rooms, heh.
Obviously, now that we have recon covered we need to think about adding offensive capabilities. I mean, what good is it to identify all the major structural supports if you have no way to take them out? Robot Wars-esque saw blades are probably unsuited for implementation on the existing hardware base, even if external power could be supplied (viz. those "anemic motors"), so I'm thinking along the lines of a small thermal lance or incendiary package.
"There are hundreds of game theorists at the gates, sir, and they want to hold an election!"
"Those were not his knees, captain. Not everyone keep their genitals in the same place"
welcome my new tank-driving, mini Mag-Lite toting, camera carrying overlords.
I kinda stopped reading at "remote control Abrams tank". That's just plain fun, with or without the wirless video camera. I don't need no webpage to tell me that.
I mean, come on. As if driving a remote control M-1 Abrams blind isn't "fun" enough in the first place.
(Although I admit - probably more fun if you have a remote control video camera, rather than having to be anywhere near the tank in order to get footage of all the car-smashing, lightpole-snapping... well, like Mom said, it's all fun until someone gets their house crushed like a bug.)
Anyone else think for a second that it was a remote control ACTUAL Abrams?
Now that'd be a hack.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
Iraqi /. readers are impressed with the huge size of our houses.
No reason to skirt around the issue, the videos from the tank I watched were very poor quality. I understand they were wireless, but why not stash some treasure in the crawlspace to let all the /.ers take part in the discovery. I mean if through all the darkness and quick jerky motion, the tank could have discovered this, how flipping sweet would that have been?!
But there's no tape on Mars to attach the camera to the gun barrel!
There's only 50 people watching, it's just that they're all hitting reload over and over to watch the counter climb. Amazingly, it does...
The slow response is due to another 50 slashdotters trying to leach the entire site so they can post 'It's slashdotted already, but here's a cache'.
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