The Mythbusters Construct a Kit Bot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 18, 2006 @11:15PM from the i-am-your-robo-friend-please-remove-packaging dept.

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."

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I don't get it by carpe_noctem · 2006-03-19 01:23 · Score: 5, Funny

What myth are they busting here, exactly? That everything from RadioShack sucks?

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