New Ball Prototype
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New Ball Prototype
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#2Cool... but here's how my evil military trained mind works.
1. "Ball" has core of C4, surrounded by wire, etc. (i.e. it's a grenade with a bigger bang)
2. Add increased range.
3. Add ability to "bounce" (for stairs, etc)
4. Add firing mechanism.
You now have a movable, controllable grenade. Ideal use: Room clearance. Turn ball on, roll into target room, bounce to waist height, activate.
You could easily modify this with CS gas or such for lower lethality options.
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#3Cool... but here's how my evil military trained mind works. 1. "Ball" has core of C4, surrounded by wire, etc. (i.e. it's a grenade with a bigger bang) 2. Add increased range. 3. Add ability to "bounce" (for stairs, etc) 4. Add firing mechanism. You now have a movable, controllable grenade. Ideal use: Room clearance. Turn ball on, roll into target room, bounce to waist height, activate. You could easily modify this w…
Add acoustic sensors to triangulate enemy positions, coordinate with aerial surveillance, add ability for aerial drop to be deployed across battlefield, add control moment gyros to allow it traverse difficult terrain.
You could have them roll back to a base point for self-charging. To make them airborne you could embed the standard model in a quad-rotor "collar" and use the rolling mechanism for avionics and control. Really, you could base a whole micro-UAV/UGV system around some version of this concept.
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#4Great cat toy (with or without suggested c4).
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#5Saw these guys at BDNT a couple days ago. Love the smart toys concept.
My dream is a personal UAV I can fly over the cell network. I want to drop my android phone into the cradle on the plane then sit back on my laptop and fly it around town, take pictures, stream video, fly it over the pentagon, etc.
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#6Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1475336
(run4yourlives see my comment there ;) )
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#7How can this be better than playing with the ball with, say, your hands? your feet? Maybe I'm getting old
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#8I really really like it.
I also have scary thoughts thinking about how an innocent robotics company can end up like iRobot... not that that's such a bad thing of itself :) Roombas and military killing machines, woo.
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#10Seriously one of the coolest gadgets I've seen, I can't wait to buy these for people.