BubbleBoy is not Characterful

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, September 12th, 2008

FUDGE!
BubbleBoy did not win, nor PLACE in crabfu’s ‘Most Characterful’ competition.
I don’t understand how it didn’t… My source and schematics are even open!!
This extremely sucks as I wanted to win so badly as I don’t have the money to buy a serial servo controller Fudge!! Will MANOI forever be in a box? Talk about unethical treatment to a robot… (You wouldn’t keep a cat in a box* for a month would you?! why would a robot be any different?!)
* Schrodinger’s cat is an exception

I guess I poured too much creativity and florescent pink and lime green paint into it Grr! Either that, or it doesn’t even count as a robot since it doesn’t show its wires.
Although it is only “one contest” it was only an EXTREMELY GIGANTICOR SUPER DUPER CONTEST that I really wanted to win so I can work on my other robot so I can win other contests so I can pay for parts to keep researching robotics!!!!
sigh…

Posted in: News, Robot News.
Tags: angry, BubbleBoy, FUDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, grrrr, sad

One Response to “BubbleBoy is not Characterful”

1. Ron Says:
   September 13th, 2008 at 12:42 PM

   Poor BubbleBoy. He gets no respect. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t zoom around and shoot flames. :-) He’s still a cute robot.

   Evelyn and I are working on a project that uses RFID tags. Perhaps you could do something like that with BB 2.0. One tag could be food, another water. You could embed the tag into a little piece of plastic fruit (or something) and hold it up to his “mouth” (behind which is hidden an RFID reader). It might be a cool way for people to interact with the robot without pressing buttons. The readers are a little expensive, but the tags are cheap ($1 each).

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