Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Mod Encourages Actual Rocking, Socking
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 6 of August , 2010 at 12:57 am
The original Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em robots game has a certain charm about it, but nothing that can’t be improved with a bunch of servos and some fancy movement detecting watches from Texas Instruments. Fancy yes, but remarkably cheap (especially considering the fact that a Ti-83 graphing calculator with 32kb of RAM and a 6 (six!) MHz CPU still costs a blasphemous $130) as you get a three axis accelerometer, pressure sensor, and RF wireless communications (plus a watch) for only 50 bucks. Anyway, with one of these watches on each wrist, the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots game can be completely controlled by the users’ motion, albeit with a bit less ferocity than what tends to be traditional. Quick, somebody call Hugh Jackman…
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Comment by Joe Dunfee
Made Friday, 6 of August , 2010 at 3:32 am
These guys are clearly NOT mechanical engineers. The lever arms used to move the bots are using very little of the servo’s range of motion. They also greatly weaken the forces they might be capable of. Don’t copy their approach.
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