Swashbot sashays his way into our hearts
By Paul Miller 
posted May 17th 2008 4:40PM
posted May 17th 2008 4:40PM
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Just the head kinda reminds me of those robots from "Batteries Not Included". I love that film.
I thought the same thing, although these come with Rayovac apparantly.
The Hellghast are coming!
+1 That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw this article.
[img]http://www.ketzer.com/original_movie_props/wheems.jpg[/img]
Bionicles anyone?
yep its true...
Reminds me of the droidekas from Star wars.
Except, you know, CUTE. Like a baby Droideka, before it gets all mean and nasty and tries to kill Jedi.
Reminds me of the Martian in the Daffy Duck cartoon.
Here ya go:
http://www.alexross.com/SC00013-big.jpg
A Tachikoma looks way cuter than that mechablob
Looks like theres gonna be some sore fingers from the way he has to turn the robot @ 2:47
But yea it would be cool to put some longer arms and back bone on that thing and maybe an electric saw.... and battle Pleo..lol
looks like one of those 'battle ants' from Starfleet :)
we can use them to battle the crazy raspberry ants
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/houston-being-overrun-by-electronics-killing-ants/
I think they look a lot like the beetles from An Ant's Life... but I haven't watched the video yet..
Crap I mean A *Bug's* Life...
Crabfu has also made a second Swashbot.
http://www.robotliving.com/2008/04/26/swashbot-2-by-crabfu/
And 3
http://www.crabfu.com/swashbot/
The bot got a bit horny at the beginning.
WANT
There's a third too-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4kk3lfoTuI&feature=related
Actually Pauly7 he's made a third video to its tres cool and a lot more crab like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4kk3lfoTuI&feature=related
"Kill All Humans!"
OMG I wish I could make one with six (or more) legs. Imagine how cool that little critter would look if it could actually move like an insect. Maybe our future toy robot companions don't have to look like baby seals or dinosaurs. Just don't swat it.
Man what.
Two LEDs, four servos and a battery pack? Sounds simple enough to make at my fucking school. Perhaps too simple for year 11 engineering, but surely this would've been simple enough for a year 9 project, which would've been far better spent than making crappy maze games/light-sensing meters.
Want one of these so badly.
I see Military Contract! Camo them as real crabs, send em into battle and noone will be the wiser. I want 10. These would be great if they came out for Christmas. Hey you all must know about Mario and the Micro heli's before the havoc stuff came out.
Right. Projects that capture the imagination and lead people to bigger and better things are helpful. But, genius goes to those who can see through the "crappy" exercises to the captivating and enpowering things like this guy.
You're joking me right, he's using the same TX as me and I think the same G-Force neck strap balancer :D.
This guy is awesome he even has a cute cat.
I think the servos are from a Blade 400, they sound pretty weak so they must be :D.
Well, I might as well use the reply button as there's no edit lol. Nah, it's not the g-force neck balancer, looked at mine lol.
I could build one of these, I have all those parts laying around, real cool this is. I might just go ahead and build one I dunno!
Take a look at his other videos :D.
NO WAY! Just went to his site, man it's like me but rich. It's got everything I'm interested in, awesome! AH so this is the guy that made the steam turbine RC tank!!
There's also a V2 of swashbot!
"I could build one of these, I have all those parts laying around, real cool this is. I might just go ahead and build one I dunno!"
And that's what separates genius-types from the rest of us. Sure, you have all the parts, and maybe even the technical ability to do the same thing. But do you? Do you have the patience and determination to develop the plan, execute it, refine it? That's what often separates people of amazing ability from the rest of us: The willingness to execute. The strength of will to spend hours DOING something rather than getting bored or stuck and go back to watching TV or playing video games or whatever.
I want a whole army of these!
It moves like Jimmy from South Park.
Look at those glowing red eyes.
Killzone anyone?
evil little bastards....
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom? The the eludium pu36 explosive space modulator. That creature has stolen the space modulator. Delays, delays. Capture that creature, and return the eludium pu36 explosive space modulator!
Neat, sort of looks like an ant.
Wow! that thing looks cool! Where can I get one!?!
Indianapolis
I'm glad you sign your comments with where you live.
Hell's Gate
It's pretty much just CCPM servos and a air receiver with a DX7 mixed for CCPM...
Broken down:
This is nothing imo, all the controls and mixing have already been programmed on the controller by default...even he's using E-Flite servos, those are crap...should be using some Futaba S3154 or S3156
It's killed before, and it's waiting to kill again.
Just you wait, this is the beginning of the end, robots will take over the world!
On the other hand, it looks quite nifty, What can it do exactly ¬_¬
Add a built in cam.
glowing red eyes are never a good sign.
I guess I should get mine checked out by a doctor than.
While You thought this is cute and everything, first thing that poped in my head was: Strogg! XD
This is just a spy unit made look cute.. They're comin' !! *PANIC*
Timmeh!
Crab People- Crab People=
Poor crippled robot...