Archive for the ‘awesome machinery’ Category

Yoichiro Kawaguchi’s robot designs

Thursday, February 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Check out this gallery of incredible robot designs over on Pink Tentacle. Beauteous! Photos: Yoichiro Kawaguchi’s robot designs More photos of Yoichiro Kawaguchi’s robot designs on display at Yushima Seidō temple in Tokyo This is my favorite. I want one these flying by my side, armed with a particularly powerful cream pie.

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How to Fix a Power Window NOW with extra New Age Chanting!

Friday, September 19th, 2008 | No Comments

Ok, so one of my kids wanted to know how a power window works. Of course, I turned to YouTube. You wouldn’t believe the variety of movies out there on the topic, but this one really stood out from the rest. It isn’t because it’s a very good demonstration. No, it’s the music playing the [...]

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Wall-Climbing Robots: Vortex VRAM

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Awesome. Scary awesome. See 15 more wall-climbing robots at oobject.

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Takayuki Furuta - Robotics Zen Master

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | No Comments

Boing Boing posted a link to an exciting proposal from Takayuki Furuta to build a 60ft Gundam robot. I decided to dig around and read a bit more about Mr. Furuta and located an interview on PingMag MAKE. I found this particular quote very inspiring: When I was a child [age 2 to 8] I [...]

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BigDog Awesome Four-Legged Robot

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | No Comments

The beginning of the video is kind of spooky, watching the robot cruise up a hill in the forest. However, it gets really awesome when you see how the robot handles changes in terrain (like ice) or getting kicked in the side. Amazing and awesome work can’t wait to see these roaming the streets and [...]

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Tiff Needell Drives the Aston Martin DBS

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | No Comments

Speed is awesome. So is performance. That’s why we love watching Fifth Gear. Fifth Gear is a long running “motoring show” that appears on the British Channel Five. Tiff Needell is one of our favorite hosts. Check out this awesome video of Tiff zipping about in the Aston Martin DBS. The Aston Martin DBS is [...]

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Happy Pretty Trains

Monday, February 18th, 2008 | No Comments

[Via asahi.com]

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