The Cubelets arrived!

Exciting times in modular robotics land! A former coworker of mine started a company aptly named "Modular Robotics" who, over the past years, developed a modular robotic toy construction kit named Cubelets. After spending years finding out how hard developing a hardware product is, they finally shipped the first batch of 100 beta release kits. Being excited about having modular robots around that (unlike my own research modular robots) function reliably, I couldn't resist shooting a short video of my first experiments with Cubelets.

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[IUsedToBeAPygmy]

This is 16 cubes. 6 cubes cost $160.

So this is $426 of cubes.

They look fun and all, but not $426 fun.

[joerush25]

holy shit you could connect the [battery > light sensor > inverter > light ] to create an automatic flashlight!

[TheLeopard50]

@IUsedToBeAPygmy

im not bosting

[TheLeopard50]

@IUsedToBeAPygmy

lol in british moneyfor 6 it only costs us £100 XD

[DanoninoBG]

When they are mass-produced their price will drop down for sure. I'll wait till 16 cubes cost $80 at max. $5 per cube seems possible (hopefully) in the future.

[2RandomStudios]

The look like a lot of fun, but for fucks sake this is a recession!

I can't go plunking $160 down on only 6 of these things. The markup must be at least 300%! Hell, I could buy myself another Radeon HD 6870 for that much. And I guarantee you the 6870 has 100x more technology packed into it.

[LightBoy74]

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[MrDragonfyr]

$160 USD for 6 cubes... bit expensive!

[h3nkku]

@IUsedToBeAPygmy learn to count. 20 cubes.

[Aero089]

@joerush25 Or a strobe; since its own light would cause it to turn off, therefore making it dark again, therefore turning on etc. etc.

[Choco510]

@IUsedToBeAPygmy This is a beta kit. I'm sure it's wasn't the same. It all came in a single box also. They'll be cheaper.