This RC car started life as a normal remote controlled car that couldn’t be driven beyond the line of sight. But now it’s an advanced Wi-Fi robot car that can be operated via the internet or a computer over a distance of half a kilometer. It sports a network camera for the eye, that provides live information and shows you where it’s at. It didn’t cost him very much to put this together as the base car was a mere $5. He added the network camera, router, heavier batteries, extra circuits, and a whole bunch of wires.

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What the duck? The Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck is one weird art project. It’s the project of Taeyoon Choi from South Korea. I’m guessing she has a very strange imagination. But hey, you say pictures come from a duck’s butt, I’m there.

It works like this. The duck is placed in various New York City tourist areas. The duck will then make like a duck and move around by itself and when it senses the flash from a tourist’s camera, he takes his own picture. The photo is then printed from the duck’s ass where you can…pluck it.(See what I did there? Pluck it…) or it can be uploaded to the web via WiFi.

The Robotic Duck was made by hacking a digital camera, printer, a Roomba, and an mp3 player, all connected by a single microcontroller.

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