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Found Footage: Power Mac G4 Cube Transformer Robot
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...
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hobbes said 3:36PM on 5-29-2009
That's awesome!!!!!!!!
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nano said 3:41PM on 5-29-2009
well somebody thought that was amusing
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Johnny said 3:45PM on 5-29-2009
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.
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mere said 3:57PM on 5-29-2009
where exactly does it transform?
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smak said 4:03PM on 5-29-2009
Slow news day?
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Tice said 5:27PM on 5-29-2009
Funny, like it!
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Andrew said 3:12PM on 5-30-2009
that was pretty blah
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samp-player said 8:30PM on 5-29-2009
epic.
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iEye said 12:56AM on 5-30-2009
Cube: Look what I can do!
iMac: Well I can................... open my CD drive!
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pangelav said 10:54AM on 5-31-2009
Is that all you got, Megatron??
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thinkingbricks.com said 3:51PM on 5-31-2009
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
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