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Well that was cool. But the page doesn't exactly have much in the way of words. Despite the spammy nature of the newslamp.com domain --and despite the spammy na

Well that was cool. But the page doesn't exactly have much in the way of words. Despite the spammy nature of the newslamp.com domain --and despite the spammy nature of the youtube video being in response to Katy Perry's Part of Me music video-- any idea what microcontroller is being used? EDIT: And now this video is rocketing to the top of reddit, number two at the moment. Video is on liveleak.com. Way to give the actual producer credit, internet.

eksith 13y ago
To be fair, there have been far more interesting posts on HN that were ignored because it was only a YouTube video. Would you be commenting if it wasn't linked to a different site (however spammy looking the domain)?
- aspensmonster 13y ago
  Of course! I wanted to know the micro-controller used :) Looks like gilgoomesh has a direct link to the creator's actual youtube account as well, not the embedded rip-off from youtube user chrill22, which looks like a typical view farmer. It looks like chrill22 took hinamitetu's "Quadruple Backflip(NO.16)" video, trimmed out the part where hinamitetu was setting the robot up, and then re-upped it. Absolutely infuriating. And judging by bradleyjoyce, it looks like there's more technical info to be found, albeit in a language I don't understand.
  - eksith 13y ago
    That, I'm not too sure of, but it's more than likely a PIC-16 or 18 series. There's a nice write-up from last year on using a PIC16F628A and four servos to build a walking robot. http://www.academia.edu/1767517/Walking_Robot_with_Four_Servomotors http://www.academia.edu/1767517/Walking_Robot_with_Four_Serv... If you're the tinkering type, it's quite an interesting read. Of course, that's a long way away from a robot that does backflips ;)
    - zokier 13y ago
      One video shows it having PIC16F873: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijyM-2S2f4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijyM-2S2f4 Another video has some sort of details in the description, although they are bit mysterious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEua6kL00M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEua6kL00M "AD conversion is not performed." meaning that the main feedback is analogue? That'd be interesting indeed.
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eksith 13y ago

To be fair, there have been far more interesting posts on HN that were ignored because it was only a YouTube video. Would you be commenting if it wasn't linked to a different site (however spammy looking the domain)?

aspensmonster 13y ago
Of course! I wanted to know the micro-controller used :) Looks like gilgoomesh has a direct link to the creator's actual youtube account as well, not the embedded rip-off from youtube user chrill22, which looks like a typical view farmer. It looks like chrill22 took hinamitetu's "Quadruple Backflip(NO.16)" video, trimmed out the part where hinamitetu was setting the robot up, and then re-upped it. Absolutely infuriating. And judging by bradleyjoyce, it looks like there's more technical info to be found, albeit in a language I don't understand.
- eksith 13y ago
  That, I'm not too sure of, but it's more than likely a PIC-16 or 18 series. There's a nice write-up from last year on using a PIC16F628A and four servos to build a walking robot. http://www.academia.edu/1767517/Walking_Robot_with_Four_Servomotors http://www.academia.edu/1767517/Walking_Robot_with_Four_Serv... If you're the tinkering type, it's quite an interesting read. Of course, that's a long way away from a robot that does backflips ;)
  - zokier 13y ago
    One video shows it having PIC16F873: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijyM-2S2f4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijyM-2S2f4 Another video has some sort of details in the description, although they are bit mysterious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEua6kL00M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyEua6kL00M "AD conversion is not performed." meaning that the main feedback is analogue? That'd be interesting indeed.

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