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5 Homemade Robots That Offer Hope for DIY Geeks (with video) [Digg]

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30 Sep 2008 at 16:29

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Ever wanted to build your own bot but didn't think you had the mechanical engineering wherewithal for a robot army in your backyard? Take heart in a middle-aged software engineer who slapped together some PVC pipe and geeky know-how to make everything from automated furniture to a walking webcam—and

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Ever wanted to build your own bot but didn't think you had the mechanical engineering wherewithal for a robot army in your backyard? Take heart in a middle-aged software engineer who slapped together some PVC pipe and geeky know-how to make everything from automated furniture to a walking webcam—and a kind of Wii-mote to control them all.

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