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Daniel — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:08:24 -0000

I couldn't understand some parts of this article Lineriders, Hotwheels Revisited, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

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Rick Doble — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:59:13 -0000

DOPBz9 I put together a show of about forty photographs at a frame shop. I invent a unique way of mounting the pictures, flush on aluminum with a spacing device to move the picture out from the wall. This way of framing has never been done before, at least in our area. (Now I see it all the time on styrafoam board.) The show is a wild success with about a hundred people at the opening including the former director of the Playhouse 90 series on TV (a teacher in my department) who loves my work and brings the Chairman of the Art Department with him.

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sam — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:35:02 -0000

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KRIS — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:22:02 -0000

Aquadoodle and thomas the train have paired up. The train follows "tracks" drawn on the mat. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/det...

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Alan — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:24:50 -0000

The picture above is a mockup. The original article refers to pictures of cars projected into a whiteboard by a computer. The computer has a camera and makes the cards follow line, with annontaion to speed up, slow down and such. The computer also projects skid marks when the cards spin out. Pretty cool, but not a physical toy.

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Starxxon — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:46:36 -0000

I remember reading an Epson (?) Scientific equipment catalog when I was like 10 in 1984 where they a few cool little robots in some fluo transparent plastic cases. One was doing just that, following lines drawn on the ground. It was probably very slow (too), but it got me interested in building a similar thing myself.

I never even tried to do it since I figured out that it would be more complicated than using a light and two photoelectric cells (or maybe my dad told me so).

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Neighbour — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:41:30 -0000

It's not a new technology but the application is funny. I have seen a real 'walking' bug use this line sensing technology. Very interesting although it walk very slowly.

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Jon — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:17:04 -0000

yea they're real, i've seen them at a demo at a mall. so i think they're publicly for sale too

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kaÃ¶t-impetryk-stone — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:32:28 -0000

cool !

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John — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:25:54 -0000

It's been done before, and like previous attempts is doomed to failure because very few parents will be happy with a toy that encourages kids to draw on the floor.

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Dale — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:03:27 -0000

I got a Smarttracker for Christmas. It never worked. The optical sensing technology has to be WAY improved before this concept will be ready for prime-time. But I would love for Mattel to put their formidable R&D chops into this and get it to fly. . .

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Mikey — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:32:09 -0000

Or, you can go to:
http://www.wonderfullywacky.com/smarttrackerz.htm
and get 'em for $15. I gotta get me some of that! Or rather, "for my kids"... :)

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officeboy — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:02:31 -0000

Not really new at all, http://www.robothon.org/robothon/line.php
But interesting to get it small enough to fit in a hotwheels.
Thatâ€™s smaller then the smallest Iâ€™ve seen yet, http://elm-chan.org/works/ltc/report.html

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Mattias AhlstrÃ¶m — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:16:38 -0000

Or you could skip over to "as seen on tv" and buy yourself some Smart Trackerz and modify them.
http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/smrttracse...