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Posted by Too_Many_Tools on June 25, 2006, 12:31 pm
Please log in for more thread options >From a collector's standpoint the Rumble Robots have little value...too
many out there and far too recent.
>From a hacker's standpoint they are excellent....a nice, cheap compact
package with sensors and motors that can have a microprocessor grafted
on to it (Basic Stamp seems to be a popular one) so one can build an
army of small bots that interact with each other.
One of the easiest platforms to use to test new algorithms on we have
found.
TMT
L'ectro wrote:
> SparkySU1 wrote:
> > I'm a robot collector.......collect from garage sales and such, but
> > I've decided to start clearing out some of my past to make room for the
> > present. Anyway, I have this group of robots that I picked up
> > somewhere because they looked fairly interesting. I've been told
> > these are Rumble bots which were popular around 2001. I'm curious,
> > does anyone use these any more? ...and are they worth anything?
>
> Hi Sparky,
>
> I do the same thing! *And* I've _also_ started to weed out my
> collection! They're not like baseball cards, where you can keep
> thousands in a suitcase... These guys take up room, with a capital
> 'R'...
>
> I've started donating some as door prizes at the monthly meetings of
> the DPRG.
> I have about a dozen Rumble Robots at the moment, waiting for good uses
> to be found for them... I figure eventually autonomous mini sumo
> bots.... Or maybe swarm behavior experiments.
>
> I feel your pain.. You can only have so many RADs, Cybie's, Robies,
> Omnis, MyPals, Rumbles, Armatrons, Busters, etc... And they're all so
> 'old-school' technology-wise.
>
> Don't know much about worth, though. I see them around in thrift stores
> from $2 to $10, depending on accessories.
>
> Regards,
> --Electro--
> aka The Other David
> www.dprg.org
> in search of an inexpensive Omnibot 2000...
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> I've decided to start clearing out some of my past to make room for the
> present. Anyway, I have this group of robots that I picked up
> somewhere because they looked fairly interesting. I've been told
> these are Rumble bots which were popular around 2001. I'm curious,
> does anyone use these any more? ...and are they worth anything?