Comments on: Lineriders, Hotwheels Revisited

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:08:24 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Lineriders, Hotwheels Revisited, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

By: Rick Doble

Rick Doble — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:59:13 +0000

DOPBz9 I put together a show of about forty photographs at a frame shop. I invent a unique way of mounting the pictures, flush on aluminum with a spacing device to move the picture out from the wall. This way of framing has never been done before, at least in our area. (Now I see it all the time on styrafoam board.) The show is a wild success with about a hundred people at the opening including the former director of the Playhouse 90 series on TV (a teacher in my department) who loves my work and brings the Chairman of the Art Department with him.

By: sam

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By: OhGizmo! » OhGizmo’s Year In Review: Our Greatest Hits

OhGizmo! » OhGizmo’s Year In Review: Our Greatest Hits — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:34:42 +0000

[...] Then, on June 28th, Gizmodo again picked up on an article: The Lineriders. This was a project to reinvent Hotwheels cars by outfitting them with technology allowing the little wheeled buggers to follow lines drawn on the ground. The idea being that you’d be able to draw your own racetracks, right on the floor, and annotate them with special symbols telling the cars to either slow down, speed up, etc. As the story unfolded, we found out that the project had already gone beyond the conceptual stage, with actual working prototypes, but was not in production yet. This article netted a respectable 12,000 visitors. [Lineriders, Hotwheels Revisited] [...]

By: KRIS

KRIS — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:22:02 +0000

Aquadoodle and thomas the train have paired up. The train follows “tracks” drawn on the mat. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/toys/B0007WWZYK/qid%3D1132690341/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-8611015-0424866

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:24:50 +0000

The picture above is a mockup. The original article refers to pictures of cars projected into a whiteboard by a computer. The computer has a camera and makes the cards follow line, with annontaion to speed up, slow down and such. The computer also projects skid marks when the cards spin out. Pretty cool, but not a physical toy.

By: Starxxon

Starxxon — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:46:36 +0000

I remember reading an Epson (?) Scientific equipment catalog when I was like 10 in 1984 where they a few cool little robots in some fluo transparent plastic cases. One was doing just that, following lines drawn on the ground. It was probably very slow (too), but it got me interested in building a similar thing myself.

I never even tried to do it since I figured out that it would be more complicated than using a light and two photoelectric cells (or maybe my dad told me so).

By: Neighbour

Neighbour — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:41:30 +0000

It’s not a new technology but the application is funny. I have seen a real ‘walking’ bug use this line sensing technology. Very interesting although it walk very slowly.

By: MotorPasion

MotorPasion — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:57:05 +0000

Pinta tu propio circuito

Estas miniaturas son todavÃa un proyecto que no ha visto la luz del mercado. La idea es equipar los Hotwheels con tecnologÃa que les permita seguir caminos dibujados sobre el suelo mediante rotuladores. Para acelerarlos, pararlos o hacerlos saltar s…

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:17:04 +0000

yea they’re real, i’ve seen them at a demo at a mall. so i think they’re publicly for sale too