Technabob » gateway http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:30:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Computer Parts Robot Has Intel and AMD in Its Bloodstream http://technabob.com/blog/2011/03/28/computer-parts-robot/ http://technabob.com/blog/2011/03/28/computer-parts-robot/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:17:07 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/?p=52410 I always wonder what to do with all the bits and pieces of obsolete technology I have lying around. Sure, I donate what I can to schools, but I’ve even been turned down there when the tech is too old or unwieldy. Maybe I should do what Mike over at Total Geekdom did, and turn my old electronics into a robot.

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Mike had a bunch of parts he was going to put in the trash, and decided to give them new life as a robotic sculpture. He gathered up discarded circuit boards and parts from friends and family too, and managed to build a robot with quite a personality.

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He’s got body parts from Dell, AMD, IBM, Maxtor, Toshiba, Sharp, Gateway among others. Nice touch there with the CPUs and flash drives for his brains.

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I especially like the eyes – which came from some old Canon and HP digital cameras. You know that thing they say about the eyes being the window to one’s soul, right?

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All in all, it’s a loving tribute to technology that at one point was an integral part of someone’s livelihood, education or entertainment. I think we need to build an entire shrine to old technology filled with these guys.

[via Total Geekdom]

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Gateway’s DX420 series starts at as little as $599.99, including a 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor. The systems also include Windows XP Media Center Edition and run on Intel’s well respected P965 chipset, which supports up to 4GB of Dual Channel DDR 667MHz memory. The $599.99 DX420B model includes a 16x Double-Layer Multi-Format DVD Writer (DVD

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