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The Mythbusters Construct a Kit Bot
A reader wrote in to mention a writeup of a really great Mythbusters project. Hyneman, Savage, and Imahara went out and purchased a 'Vex' robot kit from RadioShack, and constructed the bot to see what it was like. They were pleasantly surprised. From the article: "Jamie Hyneman: I must admit I was expecting to turn up my nose at a do-it yourself robotics kit from Radio Shack. But guess what? The VEX System kicks butt. In a total of about 12 person-hours, Adam Savage and Grant Imahara (my cohosts on MythBusters) and I were able to build a functional, if somewhat basic, prototype equivalent of an iRobot's PackBot."
Fact: *BSD is dying
Meh. What's the point? The BSD trolls have won. Slashdot removed the BSD section links from the front page, the BSD story posts have steadily decreased, and Linux has completely taken over the buzz of free *nix. There's just no point to posting these trolls anymore. You won. Move on with your life already.
the wanker is you
btw. sentence
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
But, of course, today's dictionaries reflect the currently corrupted usage of the word "robot". That's why I object to the corruption of the word "android" into "droid" and "web log" into "blog" (yuck).
And, yes, now we have to append "autonomous" to the word "robot" in order to convey the original meaning of the word alone. "Boy" once meant "girl", "nice" once had a negative connotation. When we mistreat and corrupt the languge we create confusion in our attempts to communicate.
No, I failed to read about the add-on module for the Vex. It appears that the add-on truly makes the Vex a robot.
Fata viam invenient.