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10 Years ROBOEXOTICA
Does this robot know how you need your Martini? Yes it does!
Presenting the MindReadingMartiniMaker and other award-winning cocktail-robots, the founders of ROBOEXOTICA, the world's leading festival on the matter, announce the american franchise of the cocktail-robotic plot to achieve world-domination.
Meet them in the Robogames pavilion.
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Abstract Chess
Abstract Chess is the game that you and your stolen office supplies have been waiting for. All you need is an index card, some markers and crayons, and a willingness to scribble. It’s the perfect challenge for anyone who’s ever looked at a Kandinsky or Pollock painting and thought, “I could do that!”
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Animate Anything
We'll show you how to use simple controllers to animate anything for a holiday display or prop.
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HomeBrewed Robots!
A variety of electro-mechanical creatures including "Springy Thingy," a Burningman Artbot, and his faithful cybernetic companion, "Rusty."
"Homer the HomeBrewed Humanoid" performing Kung-Fu-Fighting.
The "LosiBot," an autonomous radio-controlled car.
"Wirey," AKA My Little Blue Robot "Wired".
"SnoopBot," a hacked puppet.
And the PROTOBot Army: We will settle for nothing less then total world domination.
| Location: Robo Games |
Lil Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum
Back by popular demand, the Lil' Ju Ju is a modified 1947 Spartan Manor Travel Trailer with a strengthened chassis, hydraulic auto leveling legs, and enough batteries/inverter to power a Jukebox and 6 pinball machines. A true mobile pinball arcade on wheels, featuring outer space themed pinball electromechanical machines.
| Location: Robo Games |
Meta — USA
Our self-balancing scooter was designed to go curb hoping and through the sand. It is exceedingly fast. We've even drag raced it against other scooters. The hardware is from an open source project that we worked long and hard on. Our scooter has lean steering using a flat titanium spring that we invented. You just push the arm in the direction you want to rotate. Our clone is also radio controlled!
| Location: Robo Games |
Movie FX
Gary Barth
I live locally (in San Carlos) and I produce a line of Special Effects DVDs that are taught by Hollywood professionals. Each DVD is 3 hours long and has multiple lessons on various techniques including molding, casting, painting, teethmaking, sculpting, prop-making, makeup, and so on. Check out the movie prop decorations and live makeup demos as well!
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MyDummy
MyDummy is a mechanical boy on a tricycle made to look as realistic as possible. People who see "him" for the first time usually think there's a child riding a tricycle. Then they disconnect when they realize that it's just a machine. Uncanny valley strikes again!
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Pinbowl Chaos Generator
A large polycarbonate dish 3 feet in diameter contains 4 bumpers, 3 Neon/Argon rings, and 1 to 3 pinballs. When activated, the bumpers begin energizing, sending balls careening and colliding with each other and triggering the gas tubes and creating a cacophony of light and sound. They eventually lose momentum, roll back down to the bottom, only to be sent on their way once again by the bumpers. This gives a glimpse of the chaos theory and Brownian motion, besides being a spectacle that is hard to take your eyes off.
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Restored Pinball Machines
Come play some awesome pinball machines from the '80s and '90s! Fully restored, beautifully cleaned, Bally/Williams from the golden age of Solid State Pinball.
Have questions about finding / restoring a machine? Need help with restoration? We'll be there to answer your questions!
(There'll be some microcontroller action, too!)
| Location: Robo Games |
RoboGames Presents: The ComBot Cup
David Calkins
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Simone Davalos
Robots range from 60 pounds all the way up to 340 pounds, and the action will blow you away. Regular people make these robots, they're not from companies. You could make one too! Both the ComBots Cup and Android fights are in prerp for RoboGames -- the world's largest robot competition -- June 13-15th in San Francisco.
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The Reaper
Brent Ross
The reaper is a 12' tall fully animated robotic character that features 14 individual movements all controlled via a custom designed midi to parallel converter board.
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The Visible Pinball (Electromechanical)
A vintage EM pinball machine from 1975 has been housed in a clear acrylic cabinet. It is completely functional down to the coin mechanisms that initiate game play. Even the playfield itself is clear so that the user is able to view all the components in action as they play the machine. Spectators will also see the relays actuating, solenoids, stepper switches, score motor, spinners, targets, bumpers and sling-shots in action. The head is clear displaying the score reels, lights, relays and switches in motion. The original artwork is visible although translucent, so you see through it also. This exhibit amazes visitors of all ages and stimulates interest in electro-mechanics.
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