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Found Footage: Power Mac G4 Cube Transformer Robot

by Steven Sande May 29th 2009 at 3:00PM

Although the Power Mac G4 Cube is one of the all-time classic cool-looking Macs, wouldn't it be even cooler if your Cube could transform into a robot? TUAW reader W from thinkingbricks.com used a LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit and a Cube body to create a Cube-bot with both autonomous and remote control modes. The following video is one of four on thinkingbricks.com that show the 'bot in action.

Here's a challenge to W: could you take an old original Mac case and do the same? It would look a lot like the walking Mac of Bloom County comic strip fame...

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Although the Power Mac G4 Cube is one of the all-time classic cool-looking Macs, wouldn't it be even cooler if your Cube could transform...
 

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thinkingbricks.com

i'd love to bring the "bloom county Mac" to life, just don't know when... (or if my mac masters will let me)

too cool:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/06/banana_jr_6000_file_server.html

May 31 2009 at 3:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pangelav

Is that all you got, Megatron??

May 31 2009 at 10:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iEye

Cube: Look what I can do!

iMac: Well I can................... open my CD drive!

May 30 2009 at 12:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
congested

epic.

May 29 2009 at 8:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrew

that was pretty blah

May 29 2009 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tice

Funny, like it!

May 29 2009 at 5:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
smak

Slow news day?

May 29 2009 at 4:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dj Mere

where exactly does it transform?

May 29 2009 at 3:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Johnny

That was cool, not great, but cool. I was expecting the iMac to have a motor in it to spin the display around with something cool on the screen.

May 29 2009 at 3:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nano

well somebody thought that was amusing

May 29 2009 at 3:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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