HexBug Contest: $6000 Reward

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

What if a person not involved with FRC/FVC/FLL buys the product?

They could start a team, sell it to a team, or just play with it.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by Ricksta121

They could start a team, sell it to a team, or just play with it.

I will be in mad search of this little toy to get my hopefully rookie team a boost of confidence and $6000!

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

I will be in mad search of this little toy to get my hopefully rookie team a boost of confidence and $6000!

The gold one?

Wonder if there is a gold one in Texas.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

The gold one?

Wonder if there is a gold one in Texas.

If you do find it, im sure a sweet rookie team in ny would love it.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

If you do find it, im sure a sweet rookie team in ny would love it.

ok, but I'd have to get a pass from 418 on that..maybe halvsies...how do you spell halvsies? halvzees?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

ok, but I'd have to get a pass from 418 on that..maybe halvsies...how do you spell halvsies? halvzees?

hahaha. Brilliant!

[Barry Bonzack]

Dare I be the one to ask without researching it myself.... So what does a hexbug do exactly?

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

Dare I be the one to ask without researching it myself.... So what does a hexbug do exactly?

I turned mine on, and it seemed to walk around until the antenna hit something, or I clapped or made a loud noise. At this point it backs up to one side, and after a few seconds starts walking forward again....

Maybe we can make some kind of controller to program it further?

Jacob

[Ken Leung]

Maybe also hidden inside the Gold box is a golden foil... With fine text printed on of instructions and directions to a once in a life time visit to the "Robot Factory". And we get to choose any one of the robot in it we like at the end of the tour.

Oops, sorry, let the childlish side got the better of me for a minute there...

I hope the box is heading toward California right now!

[Kims Robot]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

Dare I be the one to ask without researching it myself.... So what does a hexbug do exactly?

We need to post our video, but its even more hillarious to watch the bugs interact... I won one at the webhug, and we gave one to one of our students as the 148 sheet suggests... so we decided to see what they do together. They would run into eachother and back up and run away, bump into eachother and get stuck on the feet, it was too funny. Even better was when we put both of them sitting up across from eacother and the wiggled their way towards eachother and started dancing.

Basically the bugs just walk around and avoid things... similar to that cockroach video we saw, they just keep on going

[Vashts6583]

Hmm... Sounds interesting. I might get one for my dorm for next year. And if it happens to be the gold one, well, we probably would throw it into the BAA to distribute among all of its members. Any word on price?

[ChuckDickerson]

I stopped by my local Radio Shack on the way home from work today and they had the HexBugs on the counter right next to the cash register. They are $9.99 and the cashier said they got them in last Thursday. They only got one of each. I bought the yellow one and someone else had already bought the red one. And no, they didn't have he gold one.

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

I stopped by my local Radio Shack on the way home from work today and they had the HexBugs on the counter right next to the cash register. They are $9.99 and the cashier said they got them in last Thursday. They only got one of each. I bought the yellow one and someone else had already bought the red one. And no, they didn't have he gold one.

Well i just got back from the local RS. I went there thinking i had a 98% chance of them not carryng anything. And i was correct, first the guy tried to look for it online, after me telling him it can't be done. I had him go to chief delphi.com and get the product number. Once that was establised, he did a mass search of stores for me. Around 1000 stores near my area and came up with 0.

So where did you get yours and what's the story behind this toy?

[Vince lau]

maybe its time to take a 2 week vacation and go Radioshack hoping across the US

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

So where did you get yours and what's the story behind this toy?

I found them in a small white cardboard display box (~12" x 12") on the counter right next to the cash register at the local Radio Shack in the mall in Vicksburg. Vicksburg is a pretty small town and we only have the one Radio Shack so I find it odd that we got them here before larger cities. I asked the cashier what they do and she said they just sort of walk around and if they bump into something or you make a loud noise like clap your hands they stop, turn, and continue on their way. The red one was already sold but the green, blue, yellow, and orange one were still there. She and I opened up the green one and played with it on the counter for a couple of minutes. I bought the yellow one for $9.99 and away I went. They are cute and fun to play with. We are having a summer camp this summer for junior high school students and are going to spend one day on robotics. I think we are going to get a bunch of these HexBugs to give to the kids to keep.