My robot army grows
The Tyco N.S.E.C.T. Robotic Attack Creature comes - or came, since it’s now discontinued - in two colours, and two frequencies.
Oh. Yeah.
I am, I assure you, perfectly aware that I am now required to make them fight.
I will do so, and of course make video of the result available to you, as soon as I find another radio-control warrior worthy of me.
(The real problem is getting copyright clearance for the only possible soundtrack.)
I got a blue one for $25 on ebay. Ohhh yeah…now to take it to visit the family cats…
Comment by Thuli — February 20, 2008 @ 9:07 am
These are pretty friggin’ awesome: a ranged and melee weapon, suitable for small scale destruction. Why are they discontinued!?
Also someone pointed out to me that it’s creepy and they’d stamp on it on sight. :/
Also why do I have to register on your blog to post a comment? That’s technologically retarded. Learn2OpenID
Comment by Fredd — February 20, 2008 @ 11:46 am
It’s sad that as I clicked on “the only possible soundtrack” link, and thought to myself “What would I use?”, that I came up with the exact same answer…
Comment by zurkog — February 21, 2008 @ 3:13 am
I wonder how easy it would be to tweak the frequency of receiver & remote control? I really like the visual of hundreds of these things crawling around in the same place at once.
Comment by Thuli — February 21, 2008 @ 9:07 am
I wonder how easy it would be to tweak the frequency of receiver & remote control? I really like the visual of hundreds of these things crawling around in the same place at once.
Usually it doesn’t take much more than changing the crystal in the the transmitter and receiver… although I’m not sure there actually is any single place with hundreds of these any more… or even tens.
Comment by OCT — February 21, 2008 @ 10:24 am
I’m sure it could be arranged. I saw 3 on ebay when I went looking.
Comment by Thuli — February 22, 2008 @ 7:55 am
The NSECT was discontinued in favour of the more exciting-looking Tri-Clops, which I talk about some more in the last NSECT post.
The Tri-Clops is essentially a toy-ified high-speed Killough platform, so it’s definitely got its own appeal.
Comment by Daniel Rutter — February 26, 2008 @ 7:19 am
I would have considered Ride of the Valkyries to be the obvious soundtrack choice. The music itself is in the public domain, but I don’t happen to know if there’s a good public domain performance recording.
Comment by Jonadab — March 1, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
Failing that, Night on Bald Mountain. HTH.HAND.
Comment by Jonadab — March 1, 2008 @ 7:00 pm