In comp.os.linux.advocacy, flatfish+++
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wrote
on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:42:36 -0500
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> On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:52:53 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Chumby CEO looks forward to hacker input
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Most CEOs would faint dead away if you said you'd taken a prototype of
>> | their new electronic device, ripped off the housing, reconfigured its
>> | innards, hacked your way through its code, and then sewn the whole thing
>> | into the stomach of a Teletubby doll.
>
> An understatement.
>
> http://www.realdoll.com/imagedll64/charlie/md01.jpg
>
> Friend of yours Roy Schestowitz?
http://www.phobe.com/furby/
is probably more relevant although the above is an autopsy,
not a brain transplant.
http://mindstorms.lego.com/Overview/NXTreme.aspx
might also be of interest. It even has Bluetooth capability.
Regrettably, there's no indications of a Linux port, though someone
might have hacked the VM by now.
No doubt "Charlie" might benefit by some creative surgery;
the result might look something like
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0610_050610_robot.html
except that the latter is modeled after an Asian woman and
is probably far more sophisticated than Mindstorm is likely
to support.
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