Orb Swarm

[coreyfro]

I would like to state, formally, that there are a great number of people that worked longer and harder on this project than I. I am just far less camera shy. I would like to shamelessly plug our Web Sites blog.orbswarm.com and wiki.orbswarm.com and thank the wonderful team I have worked with.

[fishpie23]

HIPPIE SKUSHER

[flarith]

It's awesome, but what would the uses be really (besides like setting off land mines)

[seeinstripes]

Watch it with the sound off, much better. Looks like a commercial for head and shoulders.

[rubluiol]

make them 1000x the size and ill buy then =.= ill conquer the world muhahahaha lol sorry too much emotion for killing ppl

[vwr0527]

looks like the roller mines from hl2 are coming true

[gotyx1]

ah yeah, ofcourse. i have about 20 as guards to my house at night :D

[leolick69]

This hippie Engineer must of experimented a couple of micro chips mix with Skunk Budd!!Thats how this fukin thing was invented!!

[fuzzyballz]

Could he make this thing 100x bigger? Then your talking! Roll that motherfucker over houses!

[LynnSnow]

Katamari Damacy-style! :O I agree.

[Vu1kan]

Props to the hippie engineer. Burning man rulz!

[coreyfro]

@Vu1kan It took about 20 of us, and many of the "us" have bigger brains than I.

[lolwtfomfglol]

i like robotic turtles

[gogekkoincorperated]

fantastic you created a hamster ball

[jacob321000]

hah hah, awsome dude!

[kdc43]

Ha,Ha,Ha........I thought they looked and moved kinda familiar! I guess the giant size of these things threw me.

[sethzky77]

Do they make a small one to shove up your ass?

[jrh702]

that is a fuckig xbox controller in hes hand

[coreyfro]

@jrh702 That we gutted and made a custom PCB for. We then scavanged all the switches and sticks and wrote functions for each such as "next audio track", "shift color hue this way, brightness that way", and, of course, "drive orb".

[revilo314]

Why, whenever someone uploads footage of a robot with interesting locomotion, does some idiot claim it would be good as a mars probe?

[enjoibj]

if the planet doesn't have mountains the wind and weather on the planet would literally crush or blow that orb away!

[illustriouschin]

yeah but can it roll up a hill? i think they have hills on some planets

[chronodyne]

the guy explaining the orb reminds me of doc brown explaining the time machine

[ThyGreenKnight]

Did you say 2.4 gigahertz? Great Scott!

[coreyfro]

@chronodyne Only Doc Brown gets more chicks!!! Hey, wait... thats me... awwwww, man!

[JosephMelia]

HL2 lol

[nogodhere1]

lol rollermines ahahha

[impikmin]

Rofl!!! Nice idea :)

[insanity54]

Well hey this seems like a good idea for off-world exploration...

The simple design is perfect.

[war723]

it isn't a very "simple" desing. yes, it's a sphere but the mechanics inside are extremely complicated

[insanity54]

What I mean is a sphere is a simple design. The most simple designs (such as a sphere, as opposed to a robot with tank treads and a complex suspension system) are the best designs.

[Yakshinian]

Mark Twain once penned to a friend, "I do not have time to write you a short letter, so I will write a long one." Remember, it is not the complex designs that require the most work, but the simple. Einstien said, "anybody can make something complicated, but it takes a real genious to make it simple."

[tehcheeseitman]

sure, if the planet had no mountains what so ever.

which i believe is impossible

[andrewrcoy]

Why is scientology advertising on your page?

[Zakkin101]

WIKKED! WANT ONE!