Video: T-Mobile G1-powered Forknife robot goofs off, eats cupcakes

It's hard to tell from the absolutely riveting two minute and seven second video (hosted up after the break, just so you know), but somehow or another, the gurus at Macpod Software managed to get a T-Mobile G1 to control a robot. Actually, the code used to pull it off is hosted up for download, but a fair bit of robotics knowledge is necessary to pull it all together. The best part? Forknife just loves cupcakes -- sorry, we couldn't resist.

[Thanks, Corey]

[flashpoint Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:22AM]

Build a more lethal robot and make the G1 its CPU.

[imayam Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:51AM]

BUT!...
..Does it eat other Androids?

[Favro Posted Jan 26th 2009 1:09AM]

His CPU is a HTC G1, a learning computer

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 1:12AM]

@ImaYam

If it does, I'm pretty sure it will ended up dead from starvation.

[Blackflag486 Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:18AM]

It's not a tumor!!! "My CPU is a Nero Net Processor.. A learning computer!"

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 4:01AM]

Yeah, but my CPU burned down Rome.

[Arkenklo Posted Jan 26th 2009 8:18AM]

@UERD:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/amds-phenom-ii-pushed-to-6-5ghz-3dmark-record-demolished/

See and learn.

[ahmedalhani Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:23AM]

cute as hell!
but theres no cupcake!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:48AM]

The (cup)cake is a lie!

[Mic2000 Posted Jan 26th 2009 4:38AM]

What a triumph

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:24AM]

Behold! The true power of an Android powered smartphone!!!

[spasewalkr Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:30AM]

It has an insatiable appetite (for cupcakes) like Kobayashi?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Kobayashi

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:08AM]

A Smartphone-powered Android ?

[Sirius Posted Jan 26th 2009 5:57AM]

@Zunavio

Nope it's an Android-powered android :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:28AM]

Wow, that thing looks like crap that was salvaged from a pile of crushed Atari 5200...

oh wait that is the G1...

the rest of the robot is nice...

[Blastar Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:28AM]

That's how terminator was when he was a baby.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:28AM]

Nice job, good to see projects that are not tied in with other "i" phones.

[Onashi608 Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:29AM]

Knifewrench~!

http://www.iwillstabyou.com/knifewrench.gif

[red hare Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:34AM]

No.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:40AM]

That's pretty sweet...Wesley.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 11:31AM]

Wow. What an obscure reference. Well done. Wesley.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 11:42AM]

Wow. What an obscure reference. Well done. Wesley.

[FILA Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:40AM]

fork you to death, its good for cutting peoples ankles off

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:48AM]

I want to kiss my nightmare right on his dummy head, but don't you dare hug me!

[Spar13 Posted Jan 26th 2009 1:09AM]

That's hot, and this leads to alot of new things.

[Gregorian Posted Jan 26th 2009 1:42AM]

So it wasn't using the G1 camera for object recognition? I guess that's Stage 2.

[zedster Posted Jan 26th 2009 3:00AM]

using the gps, I think a g1 would make for a good cheap guidance system


/good thing gitmos closed

[FrostByte32 Posted Jan 26th 2009 7:17AM]

If you gave my son a G1, I bet he could beat the robot to the cupcake. He LOVES cupcakes.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 8:36AM]

Today forks, tomorrow lightsabers.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 26th 2009 12:13PM]

cupcake fail