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Member Since: March 10, 2007

Last Visit: May 16, 2008

Birthday: November 29th

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I'm 47 and have two boys, 13 and 6. Robots outnumber carbon-based life forms in our household by more than 3:1 now! My graduate training is in molecular virology, and I've been involved in amateur electronics and robotics since the early '90s.

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BrokoSapien V2

Thread started by milw on April 20, 2007 9:22 AM

This may have been a bad idea, but I bought a broken V2 on eBay this week. He just arrived yesterday, so of course we had to break out the screwdrivers and determine the extent...

Categories: General WowWee Discussion | Thread's Raw Score: over 877 thousand | 110 Comments | 2883 Views

Last Post: April 27, 2008 10:05 AM by gadgetguy

Cheezburger attack!

Thread started by milw on March 8, 2008 6:32 PM

Categories: News, Rumors and Gossip Roboquad | Thread's Raw Score: over 523 thousand | 36 Comments | 311 Views

Last Post: April 9, 2008 8:13 PM by Billboard

Rovio video from Engadget

Thread started by milw on January 6, 2008 3:14 PM

Davin Sufer, CTO of WowWee, explains the Rovio at CES 2008. Available "summer 2008", $299.

Categories: Rovio | Thread's Raw Score: over 383 thousand | 61 Comments | 538 Views

Last Post: April 20, 2008 6:19 AM by FREEEK

Not for the sqeamish...

By milw on May 8, 2008 9:19 PM

Poor Pleo wandered into the ComBot arena at the recent Maker Faire , and had an unfortunate encounter with Vicious Verdict who appears to be armed with a lawn mower blade. Many attendees with children...

Categories: RoboCommunity Lounge General Robotics | Blog Entry's Raw Score: over 356 thousand | 10 Comments

Last Post: May 14, 2008 9:42 PM by GWJax

Dragonfly range improvement

Thread started by milw on May 21, 2007 11:07 AM

One improvement for the Dragonfly that is high on my wish list is to increase the range beyond the stated 50 feet. It turns out that the legs of the Dragonfly are the antenna- the...

Categories: Dragonfly | Thread's Raw Score: over 322 thousand | 18 Comments | 1397 Views

Last Post: November 13, 2007 11:49 AM by Pete