botjunkie.com - 2/20/2009
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Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 20 of February , 2009 at 1:00 am iRobot showed off this hamster controlled Create at CES 2007 , but now they need it more than ever… As they say at the beginning of the video, all they’ve gotta do is rip off the hamsterdance music, post it on YouTube, and ...
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OhGizmo! —
... system, felt a little better now that Foster Miller’s Talon Engineering robot has been upgraded to better deal with IEDs, watched a Sony Rolly conduct 37 AIBOs in a dance performance, saw a little LEGO robot shove its way to victory in an 11 on 11 sumo robot deathmatch, and finished out the week with some NSFW robot on dinosaur action, followed by a double video Friday featuring iRobot and robot babies of doom on the Daily Show as well as an iRobot Create controlled by a hamster.
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Strange Hamster-Controlled Robot
Tech Blog —
... According to iRobot, the "hamster controls the robot by running in the ball in whatever direction he/she likes -- ball is supported on three rollers and an optical sensor measures which way and how fast the ball is spinning." Video after the break.
The sensor data is fed to a microprocessor which drives the Create in the same way. Remember, this is exactly what the Create is designed to do: whatever you want.
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