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dvice.com - 2/12/2009
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From the Maker Faire in Austin, Texas comes this robotic monstrosity known as the Ponginator, a 3-story-tall turret that fires Ping Pong balls. It's mounted on a bucket lift and its soft-shelled ordinance leaves its pressurized air cannons at a whopping 170 miles-per-hour. Luckily for the ...
geeksaresexy.net - 2/10/2009
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February 10, 2009 by admin | By Brian
Boyko Contributing Writer, [GAS] Ponginator is a robot, and...
as far as robots go, this one is fairly simple. It plays music, says a few words cribbed from audio files, and shoots ping-pong balls from pressurized ...
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Feature: The Ponginator - A Robotic Combination of King ...
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techchee.com - 2/11/2009
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Ponginator must have been created by someone who
lives in boring days. It’s simply an entertaining robot...
that does fairly simple things, such as playing music, saying some words and shooting Ping-Pong balls using a pressurized gun. The ...
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Ponginator - a King-Kong-size entertainment robot plays ...
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Ponginator robot shoots ping pong balls at 170MPH, designed to ‘evoke dialogue’
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... Vernon Graner of the Austin Robot Group has built a three-story-tall robot in the hopes of “evoking dialogue” and “finding ways to get people excited about technology again.” Mission accomplished, sir. Your gigantic robot is truly a wonder to behold.
Originally unveiled at Maker Faire back in 2007, the robot started as a device to hold a projection screen – of course, right? – but “it kind of got out of hand,” according to Graner.
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