This is a really simple project, which can be found on Instructables, but one can also buy kits...
www.blinkybug.com
While it's a stretch to call them robots, they do interact in a way, and can help kids understand the basics of electricity and sensors. they antennae form a really simple spring switch, which triggers the blinking of their eyes (LEDs), and the body is a coin cell battery. I made some of these at a workshop at the Maker Faire a while ago.
I think it's important to note that Cringley is inserting a bit of his own paranoid fantasy into this. True, the black-box-packet-sniffer is a scary thing in it's own right, but it's a far stretch to go from that to somthing capable of throttling an ISP's upstream connection. He didn't seem to have any facts to back that up, just his own conjecture (based on a perhaps questionable understandng of network architecture).
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Fucking magnets, so *that's* how they work!
that's going to suck when all our compasses stop working.
wow you're right... someone even made my very dumb joke about 2 years or so ago
One of the first uses will be the cover of the "Smell The Glove" re-issue
Can we please just burn down the whole patent system and start over before it totally screws up another industry?
their web server does not have 16 processors.
This is a really simple project, which can be found on Instructables, but one can also buy kits...
www.blinkybug.com
While it's a stretch to call them robots, they do interact in a way, and can help kids understand the basics of electricity and sensors. they antennae form a really simple spring switch, which triggers the blinking of their eyes (LEDs), and the body is a coin cell battery. I made some of these at a workshop at the Maker Faire a while ago.
well i guess this will obviate my copy of "Astrolabe: The Missing Manual"
Perhaps someone (not me) should throw together something like this.
I'd love to get the URL of the china-friendly search engine...
I think it's important to note that Cringley is inserting a bit of his own paranoid fantasy into this. True, the black-box-packet-sniffer is a scary thing in it's own right, but it's a far stretch to go from that to somthing capable of throttling an ISP's upstream connection. He didn't seem to have any facts to back that up, just his own conjecture (based on a perhaps questionable understandng of network architecture).