Old Toy Modding? 191
Sqwubbsy writes "Stumbling through Google, looking for info on the Big Trak by Milton Bradley, I came across an article about one that was retrofitted with an OOPic controller. I was wondering if anyone else had a good story about a retrofitted toy that they beefed up?"
AWESOME !!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
I never in my like imagined there was anyone else out there who hacked a BigTrak I was about 10 when they came out and it was my dad's idea, he came home after we had discussed buying a Hero Kit to find I had pulled my armitron and BigTrak apart and was mocking up the Body of the robot, another 6 months and we had something nearly as cool as a real Hero, at least to me
Re:AWESOME !!!! (Score:4, Interesting)
I remember seeing the BigTrak advertised in Byte/ Personal Computer World back in the 1980's. I always thought that would be fun to program, but it was just too expensive.
Instead, the first programmable toy I had was a lego robot crane that was programmed using those 4x1 racks bricks driving 8 tooth gears, which were all placed on a 8x20 flat panel. A motor drove the tray through the inside of the machine. The moving racks then made the different gears turn, which could make the robot arm rotate, turn the arm and raise/lower the crane hook. The only limit to what could be done was a shortage of those rack pieces.
Re:AWESOME !!!! (Score:2)
I'm going to have to thing about that one; perhaps I could recreate a punchcard machine......
Re:AWESOME !!!! (Score:2)
Took mine apart (Score:3, Insightful)
This was all after I got bored/frustrated with it, of course.
The most frustrating thing about the big trak was that it never got its turning radii correct... if you told it to turn right 90 degrees, it was always off by several degrees, enough that it would subsequently bump into a wall or corner. Adding in the corrections for all those not-quite-90-degree turns was a hassle, so I in
Re:Took mine apart (Score:2)
Re:Took mine apart (Score:5, Informative)
This is a running problem with most batteries when operating a motor. Unless the battery is entirely solid state and doesn't decay over time, the voltage it supplies drops as it gets used up. Problem continues to exist today with Lego Mindstorm [lego.com] robots as well. To correct for this, one would want to put a sensor which senses the rotating shaft on the motor -- keep rotating motor until it's gone through the proper amount of degrees instead of just supplying driving voltage for about the right amount of time.
Re:Took mine apart (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, it's possible that this was a non-standard add-on done before I got to it, but when we hacked on a big trak as a summer hardware project in school, that one at least had photocells looking through the teeth on the track drive gears.
So you didn't have to dead-reckon track distance from motor runt
Re:Took mine apart (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Took mine apart (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Took mine apart (Score:5, Interesting)
Ah, Now I understand. This is an over simplification. A cell voltage will decrease as it becomes discharged. However, if this were the reason motors did not get the same ammout of power at time A as they did at time B then it could be easily fixed with electronics.
A battery can be moddled as voltage source with an internal resistance in series. As a battery discharges this resistance increses.
While this is not 100% accurate (As cell voltage does change too.) It models the important fact that A cells capacity to provide current decreases with time and while a cells voltage may go from 1.2v (full) to 1.0v (dead) (for NiCad) the internal resistance will change much more dramatically over the life span of the battery.
The reason I did not say what can be done is that it is very hard to do. Typically what is done is there is some other system on board that tells the robot where to go. For example, you may have a couple of photocells "looking" for a light source or a vision system. These systems provide feed back that does not say "turn 90 deg" but rather "keep turning your not there yet".
MEMS accelerometers are not very good for measuring change in distance. The output is at best +/- 1mg which does not sound so bad but when you have to take the double integral to got position you'll soon realize that error accumulates very fast. Your latter suggestion would probably work well but would be a pain to implement. I don't think I've seen many people do what you suggest.
One thing I have seen work relatively well is hacking two optical mice to watch the floor. Two are needed to detect rotation as well as displacement.
Re:Took mine apart (Score:5, Informative)
The only sensors I have that are useful for this are the infra red radar trick, and a parking radar kit which has more range but eats batteries and is rather ugly.
In my case, at every search (when looking for paths by spinning round), if it finds 1 feature in roughly 360 degrees I use that to set the effective turn time step. I could add some sort of pattern matching algorithm for more complex cases, but life is too short.
Re:Took mine apart (Score:2)
Or just design your code so that it doesn't depend on absolute positioning and pointing. None of my lego creations have ever been hung up with the idea that they have to be parallel to any wall. If they start edging too close to the wall, they
Oh, the toys you will mod... (Score:5, Interesting)
Been toying with the idea of modding my old Speak n Spell and Speak n Math to teach my kids basic algebra.
And I've got a friend that's been studying the Teddy Ruxpin story tapes to figure out the hidden signals to control the movements of the bear. His ultimate goal is to have the bear read stories from Penthouse with all face movements synced.
Re:Oh, the toys you will mod... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh, the toys you will mod... (Score:2, Funny)
My Nephew had one.
I had Iron Maiden's "The Number Of The Beast"...
Teddy Ruxpin blinked, then opened his eyes and mouth wide in a silent scream of horror.
He reaaly looked shocked.
Re:Oh, the toys you will mod... (Score:3, Informative)
Oh, the toys you will be forbidden to mod by DMCA (Score:2, Informative)
IANAL, however I see this claim made about the Teddy Ruxpin cases (Worlds of Wonder v. Veritel Learning Systems & Worlds of Wonder v. Vector Int'l) on numerous web sites.
The key phrase here is "toy bear with unique voice". The unauthorized derivative works were being marketed as new Teddy Ru
Re:Oh, the toys you will mod... (Score:2)
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Re:meccano (Score:2, Interesting)
I wouldn't need a Meccano set though.
I'd need a lumberyard.
And several "spare" years.
KFG
Re:meccano (Score:4, Informative)
http://users.actcom.co.il/meccano/riefler_
the main site:
http://users.actcom.co.il/meccano/
They have examples of a bunch of meccano clocks and other devices.
Lifesize Barbie Doll.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lifesize Barbie Doll.... (Score:3, Funny)
You look great on TV, by the way.
Re:Lifesize Barbie Doll.... (Score:3, Funny)
and with the proper application of a hot knife, indeed, she became so...
mod parent up (Score:2)
I did some old toy modding... (Score:5, Funny)
Millenium Falcon with a PC (Score:5, Interesting)
This guy put a PC in a Falcon... kinda cool.
I had one of those (Score:5, Insightful)
I took it to school once and my home room teacher had me program it to go across the hall and shoot the laser cannon at the old, old teacher in that room, and then retreat. Everyone had a good laugh about it, but the sad thing is if my son did that today, he'd probably get expelled or be forced to see a shrink.
Too bad some of his links in the story point to documents on his C: drive.
Re:I had one of those (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, that's a rocket in my pocket (Score:5, Interesting)
I fly them from a launch pad made from an Erector Set Rocket Launcher kit with the appropriate additions for the launch rail.
Robot R/C Car (Score:5, Interesting)
So you're angling for the DARPA challenge too? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:So you're angling for the DARPA challenge too? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:So you're angling for the DARPA challenge too? (Score:2)
Do the same -- demonstrate it to a local auto repair shop/junk yard, and then work with them to upgrade one to match the other, and in the end you could even win.
Re:Robot R/C Car (Score:2)
Re:Robot R/C Car (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Robot R/C Car (Score:2)
Re:Robot R/C Car (Score:4, Funny)
Bottomless pits are none of a problem, just add steering fins.
Now, pits that DO have a bottom, these mean some serious problem!
Re:Robot R/C Car (Score:2)
That's in the 6800 class, the Zaurus uses an ARM. The 6502, a lawsuit-inspired 6501, which was a ripoff of the 6800, inspired ARM, but totally different here... an 8-bit microcontroller (includes RAM and flash) running @ less than 20MHz, versus a 32-bit PXA255 running @ 400MHz?
Cool! Brings back the memories! (Score:2, Interesting)
Got one too (Score:3, Interesting)
I didn't have the Big Trak, but I had the Corvette. Somewhere, in my pile of toys from childhood it still resides (stuff I couldn't part with - the Corvette, a Donkey Kong portable game that looks like a mini-Donkey Kong cabinet, cool stuff like that) My problem with it was that I had always wished it was more programable - I managed to hit it's limits for programmability pretty quick. Now, if it had had more sensors, a programming port (upload a new program from, say, the C64) I wouldn't have gotten bore
Nintendo R.O.B. (Score:2, Interesting)
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
"fireworks" mod (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Heh (Score:3, Funny)
...
"...Now, the pressure inside the Pringles can should increase from the mixing of the orange juice and the baking soda, and eventually push the cork out from the lid. If you're rocket doesn't take off within a few minutes, then stay well away, as so
Welllll (Score:5, Funny)
Well I had a story about a blow up doll that I had modified with a two horsepower wet/dry shopvac, but I've been too busy healing up from all of the skin grafts to post it.
Bio-Bugs... (Score:4, Interesting)
Washing Machine anyone? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Washing Machine anyone? (Score:4, Funny)
And seriously, that has got to be the coolest washer I've seen. Forget all the fancy-smancy new machines with touchscreen LCDs, it's way cooler to do it yourself. :^)
OOPic is a great platform (Score:4, Informative)
You can get a lot of uC's cheap, but you have to (a) make hardware for them and (b) program in assembler or shell out some big bucks for development environment. Then you spend so much time doing housekeeping code you've lost any interest in the project.
If you want to get into in microcontrollers, the oopic is a great place to start. The oopic (based on the microchip PICMicro chips) has an on-board object oriented programming language based around hardware objects (dc motors, servos, etc). The software is free. You code a few lines up and *bingo* working robotics.
Then after you've used them for a while, you can move up to bigger and more powerful things. Atmel cpus, PICMicros in assembler and C, TINI boards.
Re:OOPic is a great platform (Score:2, Informative)
Not true. Xilinx (one of the programmable hardware giants), has a free non-commercial environment for use. Also, their hardware is far superior to pics and the like. Some of their uC's have 400,000+ gates and up to 140 user addressable I/Os.
You'll need to be able to code in Verilog, HDL, or ABLE for this to work. You could also just use the schematic editor that's included in the environment.
In my mind (and probably all engineers), HDL is far more
Re:OOPic is a great platform (Score:2)
Re:OOPic is a great platform (Score:2)
Did you happen to look at how much the hardware costs? The cheapest development board I can find on that site (just the board, no FPGA) runs >$500!
Compare with a full OOpic dev kit at $100.
Re:OOPic is a great platform (Score:2)
Re:OOPic is a great platform (Score:2)
16F84's or it's 28 and 40 pin cousins or 68hc11's are easy to program all the C programming tools are free and the programmers for them are also pretty much free... $15.00 if you really HAVE to buy one.
the 68hc11's are high power embedded processors compared tothe Microchip pic's and have been around forever and is the staple procesor for most robot building clubs out there.
I suggest you look at processors that have a huge follwing online. you can get all the development stuff for 100% free and ge
Re:OOPic is a great platform (Score:2)
I use the 16F871s which are cheap (2.50 ukp each, less in bulk - which is good, as I tend to blow them up quite often) and built my own programmer using the instructions at http://www.emicros.com/2bit_article.htm [emicros.com]
The highest cost was the ZIF socket, other than that it's just a few resistors and transistors. The Assembler development environment is free from the manufacturer (www.microchip.com).
Re:OOPic is a great platform (Score:2, Informative)
Not true.
Atmel does pay for hosting of AVRFREAKS.net an AVR enthusists web site that is great for getting started with this type of uC. Many of their engineers also frequent the site. Not only that but in my experience AVRs are a much better platform to work with than pics and HC11.
Better yet, there is a GCC port for the AVR based controllers that works well in both windows, and unix. Best of all it's free
Nintendo hack (Score:3, Interesting)
(Technical side-note: I believe I had a AC-DC converter involved in this somewhere, but it's been 15 years and I don't remember)
My old toys.. (Score:3, Funny)
But that was 10 years ago.
Toys are a great source of mechanical parts (Score:2)
It costs a fraction of the price of buying comparable parts from a normal supplier, and a lot of the mechanical work is done for you. Jason
ProfQuotes [profquotes.com]
Modding for bad children? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Modding for bad children? (Score:2)
LEGO Modding (Score:3, Interesting)
Nerf Modding (Score:2, Interesting)
I've seen old, and relatively newer guns, modded to insane degrees, such as adding a CO2 cartridge so you don't have to pull back on the thing.
Tomy Omni Jnr + C64 (Score:5, Interesting)
He would autonomously move round, bump into things, say sorry, then reverse and turn, and do the same thing. You could also put him in remote mode and control him with the ultrasonic handheld control.
After a while, he got boring and expensive, eating all the batteries up. So switches went in to turn off the speaker, and to turn off the flashing eyes. I also put in a switch to turn off his bump sensor, but I can't remember why.
Computer control and remote power was what it needed. A huge length of ribbon cable was obtained from a skip, and I fed power down it, as well as soldering the other wires so that they could use the motor controller inside.
The next few weeks were spent hacking away at my C64 with an old broken cartridge and the user port. Eventually, I got reliable control of the robot... now I had real power.
I didn't really know what I was doing, but was pretty proficient at basic, so I wrote an application to map my house. You would time how long he went until he hit something, then back up, turn left, and do the same. From the time, you could infer distance. It would have worked, bar the fact that the speed changed all the time, and the umbilical cable caused loads of drag. Sometimes it gave reasonable results.
Unfortunately he got binned when my dad cleared out my shed.
R/C car modding (Score:5, Interesting)
Wal-Mart sells huge R/C Hummer H2s. If you've seen them, you'll know what I mean. They're probably 2.5 feet long.
I bought one and ripped out the interior, then modded in a 1.5 hp gas motor from an old grass trimmer. 1.5 hp is plenty quick enough for a toy. Besides fitting the motor to turn the wheels (only the back... couldn't get 4WD working because the motor covered the cog that turns all 4 wheels) the hardest part was getting the R/C's throttle to work the gas motor's throttle, but after a little tweaking and super glue it worked pretty good. The gas tank from the trimmer went in the very back of the truck.
I'm sure plenty of you are into R/C cars. I'm actually not and have never built one before, so I don't know how powerful those motors are. They can't possibly be 1.5 hp or be anywhere near as powerful as this trimmer motor because the truck was completely undrivable. Full throttle from a standing start would turn the back wheels so fast the truck would flip onto its back. Easing it up to full speed would send the truck going well past the 60km/h speed limit on the main street near me. The truck couldn't turn at that speed because it would immediately flip about three dozen times. The truck stopped working after my first high speed turn after the jarring flips broke the body and knocked some of the mechanical parts loose. It broke forever on my second day playing with it after the cogs connecting the motor to the wheels broke. I could replace them with parts from a hobby store, but it's almost more fun to look at the broken truck knowing I modded it into destruction.
Re:R/C car modding (Score:2, Interesting)
The is no mechanical throttle in an electric RC car to "tweak and superglue". It uses a PWM signal to an H-Bridge driver chip to the motor; all electronic connections. On a toy car, this is all done on one ASIC that gets RF in from the remote and outputs to the motor directly.
Re:R/C car modding (Score:2)
Re:R/C car modding (Score:2, Informative)
I've been a long time R/C car racer. Started when I was 8. Some cars DO have a mechanical speed control hooked up to a servo (variable resistor, or many different resistors, hooked to conducting plates). In fact, my very first car had such a speed control (metal plates) (an Associated RC 10). I wouldn't at all doubt that many cheap Wal-Mart cars have similar--it is indeed very cheap to do.
See THIS [teamassociated.com] What's that on the left side of the car? Thought so--and that's a new KIT.
Culture jam Gi-Joe/Barbie (Score:4, Funny)
http://ifaq.wap.org/posters/barbiedir.pdf
Re:Culture jam Gi-Joe/Barbie (Score:3, Informative)
So I thought you had just gipped this off of an episode of the Simpsons wherein Malibou Stacy says a phrase just like that. I was a tad shocked to find out it's true, and the Simpsons were merely mocking real life. Apparently it's called Teen Talk Barbie [8m.net], released in 1992. A person with more details (but no references) posted on this board [livejournal.com]. According to that second link, the quote is "Math class is tough!" I imagine most people make the quote you did from having seen the Simpsons episode previously.
Re:Culture jam Gi-Joe/Barbie (Oblig. Simpsons) (Score:2, Funny)
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At school, Lisa and all her friends play with their new Talking Malibu Stacy dolls.
Stacy: Let's buy makeup so the boys will like us.
Lisa: [sighs] Don't you people see anything wrong what Malibu Stacy says?
Celeste: There's something wrong with what _my_ Stacy says.
Stacy: [in a low voice] My spidey sense is tingling -- anybody call for a web-slinger?
Lisa: No, Celeste. I mean, the things she says are sexist.
Old toy mods (Score:2, Funny)
Lots of mods, none documented.... (Score:3, Informative)
-Adam
Tennis Ball Cannon (Score:5, Interesting)
Materials: can of tennis balls (the old metal kind), lighter fluid.
Tools needed: can opener, matches.
Procedure: 1) Open the can of balls in the usual manner. 2) Using a "triangle punch" style can opener puncture a hole in the SIDE of the can at the closed end. 3) Make a small dent in the can about 3 inches from the closed end so that a tennis ball dropped in the open end will lodge inside and leave an open volume at the base of the can. 4) Set the can closed end down on the ground making sure the open end is not pointing in the direction of anything you might miss if impacted by a tennis ball projectile. 5) Squirt some lighter fluid into the can through the triangular puncture at the base. 6) Light a match and touch it to the puncture hole and FOOOOM! Out comes the ball at an impressively high velocity.
This endeavor always degenerates into a game of burning tennis ball soccer. The balls soak up lighter fluid nicely and continue to burn for a good long while. This game is played on a road with cars parked along it to serve as obstacles under which you do not want the flaming ball to go, but under which the flaming ball does eventually end up resulting in children running away screaming to hide. The car never seems to explode like on TV however.
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In the future, busses will lift passengers up into the sky for no really good reason.
Here you can find some links (Score:4, Informative)
How See 'n Says Work;
How to make a talking fish say what you want;
And of course Scientific analysis of the destruction of a toy Chibi Moon figure.
R/C Car hacking (Score:5, Funny)
Well, being bought at Big Lots, it breaks almost immedietely and leaves me with my first of many derelict cars.
My father, being an insane, genius, electrical engineer (do they make them any other way?), decides that the thing to do is make it into a complete remote control car. So the first things he does is orders a MOSFET speed control kit from RC/Modeler (back in the days when electric speed controls were awesome AND expensive). And he hands me a soldering iron, a schematic, a preprinted circuit board, and sets me to putting it all together.
Fast-forward one year: I'm playing with my brand new remote control car! It runs over anything and teaches me a very valuable lesson about things coming at you turning right when you move the stick left!
I've still got that car. 20 years later and it rolls just fine with a fresh NiCad charge. And I'm a mechanical engineer. Coincidence?
1. You
2. My mother
3. ???
4. Profit!
Re:R/C Car hacking (Score:2)
Ingredients:
1 Team Associated RC/10 buggy sans motor and tranny (so it free-wheels)
1 custom PVC rocket mount
1 50N model rocket engine. (like, F or G class in Estes terms. Huge.)
1 piece of cannon fuse
1 source of fire for fuse
1 large, flat, non-flammable place. (Miles Square park in Orange County CA, if you must know. They have a huge slab of tarmac that people use for RC cars, rockets, etc.)
When the engine went off it was like... uh, it was like a rocket.
Re:R/C Car hacking (Score:2)
All the old R/C cars of the "run forward, press a button and run backward and turn" didn't have a real steering mechanism. Sometimes, you'd get one that was fairly sophisticated, and the front wheels would actually turn, but usually, this was accomplished by a idler wheel located under the chassis between the front wheels. The front wheels didn't actually touch the ground.
When you allowed the car to run forward, the rear wheels spun forward and the front wheel "lo
Fish Hacking (Score:3, Interesting)
Recently I exhibited my seven-bass animatronic work called School of Fish Pain [thesync.com] at the DC Museum of Contemporary Art [mocadc.org]. I used Audacity [sourceforge.org] to edit the audio clips the fish say. The fish cry out and whap their tails in pain. It hurts to be dry.
Re:Fish Hacking (Score:2)
I modded an R/C Monster Truck with an OOPic (Score:4, Funny)
I've also modded a different RC monster to carry a wireless video+audio camera. It moves too fast to drive indoors. It is interesting to drive around the yard while sitting at my dining room table watching the monitor. I would like to add a radio circuit to carry my voice. Imagine the neighbors kids reaction if a little truck drives up to them and says 'Hey you little hooligans, get the heck out off my lawn!'
Re:I modded an R/C Monster Truck with an OOPic (Score:2)
Of all my toys I used to have... (Score:2, Informative)
In retrospect, I suppose that toy was the start of my interest in robotics and AI, though I have yet to officially toy with anything beyond an A.L.I.C.E or eggy bot.
My problem is I also lack the attention span to be able to sit down and teach myself ICs, programming, you know, all that brainy nerdy st
Rocket powered (Score:2, Interesting)
Modding of big boy toys... (Score:4, Interesting)
Being a golf cart, it was big enough for two people. I added ultra-sonic detection, IR and various control systems for remote operation. I'm a radio ham so my first camera system for teleoperation used amateur TV on 440Mhz. Fun to drive remotely!
Teleoperation and autonomous roving is cool but the most fun is being *in* the vehicle and driving it via a camera system and laptop. It's a tremendous challenge be in a vehicle and to drive it around a course while looking at a computer screen. Much more difficult than any computer or vid game.
I've been 'playing' with the machine for years and finally figured out a way to make money with it: I turned it into a game. See robot pics here: http://aicommand.com/pictures.htm
My next venture is a total mod of my ultra-light and fly it from on the ground. See the pics and note the computer company name on the wings: http://www.aicommand.com/ultrlite.htm
Hello! Mr. Seed M. Investor, do you read
Modded a talking hamster (Score:2)
The kids at a carnival loved having a hamster that could talk back to them.
Took one of those extending blade light sabers... (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, after buying a couple of those swords, (one for me and another for a friend, so we could have saber battles), I concluded that I didn't like the way the sound effects worked. So I spent a couple of days rebuilding. I took the sound-guts from another toy and rigged the saber so that there were now two extra buttons within easy reach of your finger; One, when pressed, would make a, 'deflected blaster bolt' sound, and another which made a nice, 'Waving the Saber' sound; --all over top the basic saber hum.
It worked really well, and I lucked out with the parts I had available and the way in which they were designed. All I needed was basic electronics knowledge to make it all work.
The finished product made shadow fighting very dramatic; you could now match up the sounds the saber made exactly with what you were doing with it. Very cool! Now the saber toy was something which was actually worth the twenty-five bucks or whatever I paid for it. --Strangely, I can't remember the last time a toy was made which included the sensible features any normal kid would want.
The plastic for the blade could have been made better. See-thru green, (it was Luke's saber from Jedi), wasn't the best choice. It should have been more opaque so that the light bulb could do its job in illuminating the blade. But whatever. --I also drew up designs which would allow for the blade to retract entirely into the hilt, (another stupid feature of the toy was the ten inches of exposed blade when it was retracted. Lame.) Making it work properly could be done if you dropped the battery size down to two AA's, but it would have required molding my own plastic parts, which I wasn't going to do.
There seems to be a law; "No Toy Is Allowed To Be Completely Cool. There Must Be Some Suckage Involved."
Ah well. Like most things in life, I had way more fun modding the thing than I would have if it had arrived perfectly realized into my hands from the package.
-FL
Re:Took one of those extending blade light sabers. (Score:2)
No, really.
(I've got a few modded lightsabers and other crap, including ones into which the blade completely retracts. (Also, some extra bulbs, mounting hardware, lightsaber sound chips...)
My plans included some simple open circuits to be completed by grabbing the hilt at various points.
Plans. . . (Score:2)
I'm afraid that's not going to happen. --I gave the saber away as a birthday gift and all the electronics were done on the fly. The only plans I drew up were for a fully retractable blade toy and are now long gone, and basically involved a sort of "If I were a Toy Company" day dream plan which started the toy design from the ground up.
What I do remember, though, was that the item I got the new sound guts from was another extend-a-blade sword rip off toy which came from Asia. I found it a
Modded toy helicopter (Score:2, Interesting)
I took one of those cheap helicopters that you start by pulling on a cord, and modded it to use a Dremel tool instead. :)
Pictures and video here: halr9000.com [halr9000.com]
GI Joes & Storm Troopers (Score:2, Funny)
I realized that every conflict has its casualties.
I'd rip an arm off of a stormtrooper, then use red and pink modelling paint to make the injury look authentic.
My mother sat me down one day for a talk, because she found a bloody GI Joe head and a Stormtrooper arm in the bathtub.
Toy mods (Score:2, Funny)
So whose head do you want on there? Deep 6 or Clutch?
Super Barbie Talking Pager (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:WARNING: don't search for mothman prophesies (Score:2, Funny)
Ok. Sounds just about like every computer I've ever owned for more than a year. Sometimes there are strange smells, too.
Re:I wanted one of those.. (Score:3, Interesting)
I still have it (the bigtrak, the ][e died), and believe it or not, it's not in a closet or the garage, it's on a
Link (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Finally an ask slashdot which didn't involve (Score:2)
Re:Sentient Toys (Score:2)
Short Circuit's plot description:
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
EXPERIMENTAL ROBOTS, NOT TOYS.
Toy Story, on the other hand, involves this "Sid" that mods his (sentient) toys (and a couple he found, who are the main characters), and they decide to show themselves, and attack him.