Quote:
Originally Posted by MrForbes
heh....the black case who's inside is shown in the movie, is a movie prop. It is not actually installed on a functional robot. The original 2004 Stinky used an IFI control system from a FIRST robot, with the robot controller in the black case, and the Operator Interface box on the shore control panel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnaV1Wg67Bo
The movie versions of Stinky have another enclosure inside the black case, and the black case is flooded. They use small speed controllers and a vEx signal splitter.
In case you didn't know it already, movies contain a lot of fakery. Most folks don't notice most of it. Most folks have no clue what all the parts in the black case in the movie actually do....every thing electronic is just a typical jumble of stuff to them, so when you're making a movie prop, you can just throw a jumble of stuff in there, and 99.99% of folks watching the movie will be satisfied that it really is the functional electronics to make a robot work!
Art is fun 
edit: As an example of this, look at WALL-E, study him for a while, and tell me where the actuators are, that make him move. |
You can't deny that movies/books/etc. don't inspire engineers to make some of the stuff seen in them, and driving development of new technologies. It's a two-way street. There are tons of examples of this happening. Robots being one of them. Also, hoverboards and a lot of field sensing stuff. Some of it is that a technical person will have a very basic idea of a technology, and artists use artistic license and do something with it, then that further inspires engineers to actually figure out how to do some of it. While a lot of technologies are fiction, people want them to be real, so it gets people thinking how it could actually be done.