hehe, I know, my hometown paper made slashdot! And there was much rejoicing... yay.
I didn't actually see any fireballs, but people told me about them. And about 7 years ago I was playing football near my home in Boulder, and I saw a reddish fireball streak through the sky and then explode in a flash. It left a trail, too. It was pretty. Made me drop a pass, but at least I had a legit excuse that time.
My neighbor has got himself an E-Maxx. Super fun. Fastest ready-to-run electric truck I've played with. Puts my modified Traxxas Stampede to shame (though it rolls awfully easy).
On the topic of robotic trucks... I mounted a Handy Board on my stampede (The Handy Board is a 68HC11-based controller board designed for experimental mobile robotics; created by Fred Martin of MIT), along with a Sony infrared proximity detector... and had it wandering around my basement. Fun stuff, but one detector is not enough... it kept running into stuff at 10 MPH; some sort of sonar range finder would be better...
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hehe, I know, my hometown paper made slashdot! And there was much rejoicing... yay.
I didn't actually see any fireballs, but people told me about them. And about 7 years ago I was playing football near my home in Boulder, and I saw a reddish fireball streak through the sky and then explode in a flash. It left a trail, too. It was pretty. Made me drop a pass, but at least I had a legit excuse that time.
My neighbor has got himself an E-Maxx. Super fun. Fastest ready-to-run electric truck I've played with. Puts my modified Traxxas Stampede to shame (though it rolls awfully easy).
On the topic of robotic trucks... I mounted a Handy Board on my stampede (The Handy Board is a 68HC11-based controller board designed for experimental mobile robotics; created by Fred Martin of MIT), along with a Sony infrared proximity detector... and had it wandering around my basement. Fun stuff, but one detector is not enough... it kept running into stuff at 10 MPH; some sort of sonar range finder would be better...