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Offline dunkTopic starter

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cool lego bots
« on: January 18, 2007, 03:18:01 PM »
so i'm not usually easily impressed by lego bots but these stand out as kind of cool:
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=34592
and
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/05/18/rubiks_cube_solver_done_in_lego.html

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(wondering how many muinutes of time he has just diverted from robot building....)

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Re: cool lego bots
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2007, 04:58:26 PM »
well at least his procrastination has something to show for it's self....can't say the same about me  ::)

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Re: cool lego bots
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2007, 10:32:11 PM »
On the one hand, what a useless waste of time (his and mine). On the other hand, that was pretty damn cool! How many Mindstorm kits would you have to buy to build that anyway?

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Re: cool lego bots
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2007, 06:47:16 AM »
The factory was done by a high school class in Germany, and it took 10 Mindstorm sets.

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