Steam powered RC vehicles set for world domination

An RC crab is sweet enough, but I-Wei Huang over at Crabfu is tossing some steam power into a crab and other vehicles to put other RC hobbyists to shame. Sure the RC tank isn't the zippiest unit around, and the RC walker looks a little tipsy, but we'll forgive them for their straight up badass-ness.

[Via GoRobotics.net]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2006 6:51PM]

Those are awsome!

[pbase Posted Jan 27th 2006 7:07PM]

Cool indeed, but Dr Loveless did the steam powered crab/spider thing in "Wild Wild West."

It tunred out not to be a viable model for world domination�

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2006 7:21PM]

I would buy one of those steam powered wheel chair with spider legs.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2006 7:34PM]

And of course Tesla built remote controlled vehicles back in the 1890s.

Man was obviously meant to one day combine remote control technology with steam power. Today is that day. The revolution will not be televised (because nobody's built a steam-powered TV).

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 11th 2007 10:17PM]

von dutch built a steam powerd televison

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2006 8:14PM]

It's like a strange mix between luddite and technophile.

http://www.gorobotics.net

[aninteger Posted Jan 27th 2006 9:07PM]

furtim:
Well, Nikola Tesla invented fluorescent light. Without him we wouldn't have alternating current, radio, television... x-ray technology... induction motors, particle beams, lasers; none of that would even exist if it weren't for him.

Hmm, or the rock band Tesla.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2006 12:33AM]

I for one welcome out steam powered overlords

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2006 4:14PM]

#2
I was just thinking that when I saw this.
That giant mechanical spider was cool.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2006 4:45PM]

this thing frightens the shorts offa me.
not the whole domination bit, but the fact it's spiderish.

*insert several shivers and paranoid looks over shoulder*

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2006 6:22PM]

steam produced by solarpower,yeah!
otherwise we'd run out of coal and/or trees even faster then we will/might anyway.
That would leave world domination reserved for sunny days, that would be cool I guess, or maybe rather hot, since all those in history going for world domination got burnt one way or another, he he,.......
otherwise 10 out of ten for alternatives and getting up and doin' it! Sweet as.........

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 29th 2006 12:31PM]

Are they built out of Erector sets? Sweet...