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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Science fair projects? by scooter.higher · 2006-03-18 23:50 · Score: 4, Interesting

I know my son will love this (OK, me too). He has been asking me to get him a robot kit. But I'll probably have to get two kits so I don't take over his project :-)

Then robot wars!

Oh, yeah: I for one welcome our robotic overlords...

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