JunkBot
This is the real TV image in the picture.
The makeup of the junkbot is constantly changing.
Latest Configuration:
Disused Milk Crate
Black and White Television
Working disused laptop computer
Control Electronics
Battery (purchased new)
Two Honda headlight motors
Old wheels from a broken cart
Toyota car horn
Car alarm
windshield washer pump for squirter
Loudspeaker (made from hacked car alarm)
Other objects, sometimes a bell or a light.
There is a spraycan attachment which works, but needs programming.
Computer Specifications:
screenless Pentium III Laptop from trash...
256M Ram,
10gig HD,
Composite video out
Sound out
wireless 802.11b PCMCIA card
Serial link to control box.
Shaft encoders made of computer fan magnets
USB camera ($10 walgreen's keychain cam!)
Running Fedora Linux
Executes simple scripts for autonomous action
or can be used in remote-control / telepresence mode.