[coreyjon]

The immediate plan is to determine interest. Which means I have to sit on my butt for a few days and see how many would seriously consider doing this. This would primarily be for design, and is unlikely that it will be built, although the everyone bring a small peice idea would keep the cost's down, and prove that designing a robot on the web could work. You're right about video conferencing, and keeping it in the same time zone would simplify things, but I would rather not exclude anyone from this experience.