Comments on: Geek holiday gift ideas: Robot roll call!

By: alex

alex — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:51:06 +0000

I love these robots and the website that helps you create them. I don’t like how expensive they are, just too much.

By: Scott Romanowski

Scott Romanowski — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:40:34 +0000

Cool! Custom RoboRally pieces!!!

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:00:14 +0000

I like robots some of my favorte are : Robby the undisputed champion and the most famous since the 50s the robot form Lost in Space I love his lines “danger Will Robortson danger” and the ever populor “that dose not compute” The transformers are acutally more then just robots they are life forms , R2d2 good mecanic and copiolt c3po good for a laugh , trade fedration battle droids so stupid there funny , Data Starfleets best , Norman and the androids of mudds planet all right villans but they were neet with the blinking bages . now the worst that should be put in the junkpile Dr Roger Kobey his whole idea of turning the galaxy into androids was stupid ,Brian (space 1999) no comniet, Hector (saturn 3) Delos robots (westworld,futuerworld) movies were good but you knew something bad was going to happen when they say “nothing can go worng”

By: Jonathan Latimer

Jonathan Latimer — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:15:59 +0000

Chris is right!

The Star Trek Prototype Replicator… making Prototype Daleks!

Eek!

By: Kristen Merino

Kristen Merino — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:28:04 +0000

Ordering one right now.

By: MRUTTY

MRUTTY — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:50:15 +0000

The juxtaposition of BowTie and Buzzsaw shoulders leaves me bewildered.

By: American Voyager

American Voyager — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:50:56 +0000

He reminds me of that robot in the Bugs Bunny cartoon which Elmer Fudd ordered to evict bugs from his carrot patch. LOL!! What about Robbie or the Lost in Space robot???

By: Blakut

Blakut — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:15:04 +0000

You have a 15-year-old daughter? I always thought you were younger Phil.

Anyway, it’s a very cool idea, now all i have to do is wait for people’s birthdays, since on a student budget i’d never afford to give presents to all my friends at the same time (hence, no christmas presents for anyone!).

By: Richard Woods

Richard Woods — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:43:11 +0000

Re: browser support –

http://www.myrobotnation.com/faq

“What browsers are supported?

Chrome and the latest Firefox with WebGL enabled.

Seriously – no Internet Explorer support?

When Internet Explorer levels-up to support the new hotness that is browser-based 3D with WebGL, we’ll be thrilled to support them. “

By: Wayne on the Plains

Wayne on the Plains — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:35:22 +0000

Firefox on home desktop doesn’t work, but it’s an old version. Chrome does work, though.

By: Steven H

Steven H — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:34:45 +0000

I just ordered one. Can’t wait until “Tik-Tok” arrives!

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:32:53 +0000

What about Shapeways? They don’t limit you to robots.

By: Chris A.

Chris A. — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:32:40 +0000

@ThatGuy (#2):

“What no Fez?”

Whattya mean? His whole HEAD is a fez!

By: Wayne on the Plains

Wayne on the Plains — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:08:56 +0000

It’s cool that you can search the previous creations. To see the entry for “chip”, you can search for “thebadastronomer”.

I don’t know that much about WebGL, but I’m guessing (since I have the latest Firefox) that it’s a video card issue on my tablet. Will try the desktop at home and report back here. I really want to like this, but if I can’t actually make it work it will be hard to like or recommend.

I’m guessing that most of their potential clients will have browsers other than IE (it IS for geeks, after all), but there needs to be more info about possible hardware limitations.

By: Tara Li

Tara Li — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:02:24 +0000

The available shapes were all extremely cartoonish for my tastes. I’ll skip them.

By: Darokthar

Darokthar — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:56:32 +0000

Talking about the colors is a little bit unfair. Because there could be a big difference between the colors represented on the screen and the “real” colors of a picture. In fact GraphicDesigners use specially configured printers and screens to be sure the colors match.

There are special color calorimeters to measure the color of the screen and then configure the screen accordingly.

By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:33:38 +0000

I jumped right on in FF

By: ERic

ERic — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:04:50 +0000

OK. So, I wonder what their website *does* support. Because I just tried FF and Chrome and got the same message.

By: Kendall

Kendall — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:54:57 +0000

Their website does not support internet explorer. What!!!??? They will miss out on a lot of business because of that.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:37:57 +0000

Too bad you can’t make your own Dalek, although they are probably copyrighted. So cute.

So when the internet becomes sentient, will it take over the company and start building evil robots to destroy us?

By: That Guy

That Guy — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:36:38 +0000

What no Fez?

By: mechbill2112

mechbill2112 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:08:56 +0000

STEREOLITHOGRAPHY. Its the geek way of saying “3D printer”.