lol same

This made me lol

That culture shouldn't make your day 😂

@@CallDaAmbaLamps Not even on a video about 80s robots can you resist being racist. How fucking sad does your life have to be? Angry little man.

Yeah, that was pretty damn funny.

Guess your family never watched Rocky 3 😂

@@surelychordophonic happy birthday paulie

@@surelychordophonic Rocky IV.

Face it, your mom kinda sucked.

I was hoping someone else caught that too. So crazy how casually he just name dropped Ernest Cline

Yeah, I spit out my drink when I heard that the Ready Player One guy is where this robot came from. I wonder if he still has that Delorian thst he would pose in promotional photos with.

@@sonic-templeos liked the book much better. Not as much the second one. Quite repetitive.

😮 I was like that name sounds familiar.

Just the casual "Yeah he liked the 80s and collects some of these" was pretty funny in context of how much the guy jacks off the 80s. I think dude is a hack and the book and movie sucks ass but it's cool he helped LGR out here and has stuff like these.

If this is Author Ernest Cline who sent this, I cannot help but cackle XD

@@TerminallyNerdy It's the very same. The book he sent Clint had a short story from him in.

Good on Ernest for sharing generously for us to enjoy.

Better than what boogie spends money on.

Yeah, I mean... It took me a while to realise that... When Clint said "my viewer Ernest Cleine" I was like "THAT sounds familiar". Then he showed the book and was "Wait.. What? THAT ERNEST CLINE?" LOL

LOL right?! I damn near spat out my drink when Clint said "Mr. Cline"

Yeah, that was an exceptionally casual name drop. 😆

I'm kind of wondering if he doesn't even know he's the author of Ready Player One and worked with Steven Spielberg.

@@kain0067 I highly doubt that Clint doesn´t know that, especially since it´s mentioned that Ernest is the Author of Ready Player One in the Book that Clint is showing in the video.

That sounds amazing 😂

Just when you thought a novela couldn't get any more absurd

I already loved Chile for 31 minutos, now I love them for Felipito too

@@biadrum Well, here's Felipito in action. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/o6lonJCNf6WGymw.html

Those darn pigeons from "Bolt"!

yeah, the economy kept growing, but workers just got left behind.

There was just as much then. If you had a power transformer in your backyard your R/C controlled stuff would be as good as a doormat.

LGR ASMR: violent creaky 80s bot noises carrying bot sized deputy revolver

@@MrWolfSnack It was bad, but it is still worse today. But not really because todays wireless devices, they operate at a much higher frequency now. It is because todays tech isn't really shielded anymore. Remember the insane metal shielding or almost tin can like covers inside of old computers and video game consoles? Now we put computers in plastic or even glass cases...

LGR is the perfect channel to watch when you're sick and just want a nice voice in the background as you throw up

its because of spread spectrum and quadrature modulation, everything is transmitted with higher levels of noise because the modulation allows for overlapping signals and things using the same frequency channels and still works, modern radio is amazing

Go figure Americans would use a robot for something serious but the Japanese would use it something fun as serving ice cream

​@@gmcnewlookI wish robot Butlers are made real one day

@@Maraudermarine0 One day, I'm sure they will be. The hard part is getting them to do anything useful in the home. With 3d printers and Raspberry Pi you could build your own today, but what would you have it do? We already have dishwashers, robot vacuums, washing machines, so it doesn't need to do that. Getting a drink from the fridge and bringing it to you hardly seems worth the time and money it would cost to build a robot.

Androbots lost a big Japanese investment due to a poor choice of filler music. They programmed a TOPO 1 to give a factory tour to the group from Japan. The crew observed through monochrome CCTV, without audio. The tour seemed to be going well when suddenly the investors stopped, turned around and left the building. The audio part of the tour had been recorded on tape and to fill the gaps between talking they had added music. What made the Japanese investors leave was one song was the Col. Bogey March from "Bridge on the River Kwai.". ukposts.info/have/v-deo/bJtlgnt4gKFksYk.html

I remember drooling over this in the Service Merchandise catalog.

Find me the creators of this robot so I can bring them ahead & we can finally have coherent, functional smart vehicles. I still remember the KISS philosophy from junior high - Keep It Simple, Stupid!

than

That is probably true!

​​@@MrDjBigZ? Bought several items on kickstarter. Never got scammed. Indiegogo on the other hand.

I would have written the exact same words. I drove my parents nuts wanting to go to Radio Shack and this robot was teasing me every time. Canadian too.

I had one in Canada. I think I got it a few years late on a discount

That seems to be the case with basically all advertised toys. I can't remember a single toy that I enjoyed as much as the idea. The obvious exceptions being my bike and my computer, which I enjoyed much more than I ever thought I would.

@@98Zai Transformers G1 and GI Joe almost never disappointed.

I had to settle for a $9 robot with a wired remote that could pick up small items. It was worth $9.

I had a similar tomi bot that would randomly pick up the police and ambulance radio. So I would just leave it on and listen to people talk about shootings and car crashes. I loved that thing

@@nonfelem3376that’s awesome 😀

It was channeling Satan trying to sell your soul😅

I have videos on my channel of when I was playing with Radio Shack R/C cars in my basement when they randomly crossed frequencies with my 1970's stereo and made all these weird bleeps and bloops and scary crazy stuff interfering with the radio itself. Like I could jam the radio signal and turn it on and off with the R/C car's remote.

B.L.O.B.

@@TehPwnographerLMAO

It's his Bartending half-brother

You're funny 🌈 ​@@TehPwnographer

It’s his alcoholic brother who fell off the wagon.

that is the most 80’s description of a basement i’ve ever heard

Thank you for all the work on the site, it’s such a valuable resource! That Synpet truly is dream hardware, I wonder how many are still around.

“Pardon me, coming through!”

Same, Bender's retro cousin rolling on by.

The robotic equivalent to the Luigi's Death Stare

Can you imagine if you had it stroll up to the door with the gun and cigar with an intruder present?

Well, it was bigger compared to child you than adult Clint..! I remember my first puppy as not growing much, but it's probably because I grew much at the same time..!

I went to a friend's birthday, as an 11 or 12yo around 1990-1991, and his parents had hired one of these things, from the people they rented disco lights and a smoke machine from. None of us had any special interest in robots, or any real knowledge of electronics, and the robot was already pretty dated and scuffed; We were all bratty kids, more interested in skateboard videos, than this weird, old robot toy. I don't remember actually seeing the thing move under its own power; I just remember being told "Check it out, Dan's mum rented one of those old robots", and seeing it sitting in the corner. I think I'd appreciate it more now, as an adult with an interest in electronics, and mechanical engineering. But kids are brutal- If your toy/device/whatever doesn't deliver on its expectations, quickly and easily, they'll lose interest, and walk away in a heartbeat. In hindsight, I kinda wish I'd inspected it closer, maybe played with it a bit, since they're such a weird, rare oddity... But back then, like every other kid at that party, I barely gave the thing a second glance.

Member Ecto-1? Member DeLorean? Member Ernest Cline? Member Ready Player One? Member?

it wasn't until i read you comment that i realised it was *that* ernest cline

​@@KevinJDildonikmember the 80s

@@KevinJDildonik manchildren love to read sentences like "and then the back to the future car jumped over the jurassic park dinosaur"

@@SykoFox while true, the world is already a cold place. there's not much reason to add more cynicism and ruin the innocence of infantilized men who are the victims of one the greatest and most subversive cultural robberies in history. They aren't doing much harm outside of not being great men and maybe gently fueling the decline.

The amount of jealousy felt at that moment was high.

I have an art deco room in my house and the fact that Clint has one made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Seeing that room brought back memories because my grandmother had a house that had the same color carpet.

​@@lawfulacts1955bro same

Good god! We had green shag and and I’m sure the same TV model! Pretty much exactly my 1985 Christmas Day (when I got one!)

Built in 1974, one of the reasons I bought this place 👍

@@LGR Well, happy 50th birthday to _that_ foundation! XD

If you ever seen that TV sitcom "Small Wonder" with the robot girl - they have a stone fireplace pretty much just like that one. They also had a real robot in the show too at a few points.

I’m jealous of the Apple ][

You read my mind word for word with that comment! 😉👍

surprised no kickstarter is on it by now i'd buy that for a CREDIT

Ah, back in the days when a teacher was paid enough to buy a $500 robot for fun.

Also the future: "...but not from scratch. I need to use other images of robots to create a digital collage."

​@@marksvader5398I see Twitter has picked up a new buzzword.

I think we all experienced that. the kid who has everything but isn't as happy as you'd expect someone with so much to be.

Outstanding

That's awesome! :D

Solid lore dump

Dude ! Your description made me wanna watch everything now xD

Home of the body bag

Did the smaller model use an ultrasonic remote control? My brother had an OmniBot however I distinctly remember the robot could hear where the remote was and would turn it's head and walk towards you. Am I going mad??

@@subliminalvibes Hmm, I don't remember my model doing that. My memory is that it didn't do much of anything. I remember wanting the version in this video, but the year I got this was around the same time I started realizing the whole Santa thing, and I knew this more expensive model was a much bigger stretch. The smaller model's arms didn't move by remote and that was the biggest disappointment. Also, I remember these robots being a big glass case in the middle of the electronics isle at my local Toys R Us.

That's about what I'd expect. Using it with the cassette tape would only be for fun as you could never get it to completely follow a task because it can't compensate for wheel slip or slower speed (battery charge). It was basically a goofy slow remote control car. If I got one I'd use it about as much as the tethered "turn in reverse" RC cars I got as a kid that had batteries in the remote only.

The revolver and cigar was hilarious!

I kept thinking it would do better with Big-Trak type microcontroller based electronics but of course Milton Bradley was a rival company.

​@@volvo09I was hoping that it would say "Bite my ivory white arse."

it's amazing, i've known about this and i've seen tape deck repairs and such talking about wow and flutter, and it has never once occurred to me that those would interfere with data reading.

@@volvo09 "Shut up baby I know it!"

My pleasure, I’m glad you’re enjoying!

That's hilarious, I had the exact same experience. XD Replaying over and over through the video.

@amanoj318 Right? After I finished the video, turns out that was never referenced... We might need CT scans or something.

technology connections is a master of this gag

Should have kept tabs on those robots. A lot of them ended up in the dumpster by the 90's once their educational life was absconded.

I feel like that was a grand oversight if true, wow.

Kind of like Clint to not make a big deal about it tho.@@fen4554

I had to look it up, name was so familiar :D en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cline

See the author on the page at 5:35 for reference, which confirms this to be the case

those crappy dollar store Maxell junk batteries. They last less than a month in my wall clocks, they are that bad. Spend the money and get high quality Duracells. Stuff like this is extremely power intensive and places a high operating load on the batteries. Cheap alkaline batteries do not have the stamina to deliver the power. duracell always gives the proper results.

I have indeed, as a kid I knew a dude who had one as a hand-me-down toy!

Big Trak used a real Texas Instruments microcontroller to record and control its movments.

@@MrDuncl Indeed. In fact imo I think the big trak has more use cases than the Omnibot does. While the Omnibot serves drinks, the big trak could potentially be used for projects like being used as a plotter.

I had one of those too, with the attachable trailer. It worked but I never had the patience to use it much. Programmed it once to go into my brothers room to annoy him 😂

Now imagine if their was a modified version of Crackbot dancing to Smooth Criminal. That would be lit.

Yep, wow and flutter.

​@@matthewhall6288that's in the tape deck itself, but on top of that, the motors that actually move the robot aren't moving consistently. Since it has no sensors, it assumes it moves the same way every time, when in fact it does not...

Found myself thinking the exact same thing. With a few modern technological advancements thrown in there under the hood and in the manufacturing process (i.e. ensure liquid can't easily leak inside of the machine and that accessible surfaces can be relatively easily cleaned in the event of spills or other messes), this could be a really awesome toy/tool. Plus it could be a great outlet for basic programming lessons for those interested if users were given the modernly easy ability to code in custom instructions via a computer to upload to the robot when complete. Now I want one. Damn. Somebody (who ISN'T a con artist...) with some proper know-how to get the job done needs to Kickstart one of these or something. If it seemed highly likely to be legit, I'd pitch in, that's for sure.

too bad all modern consumer-level robots are either glorified fusions of vacuum cleaners with those old toys that would 'automatically' detect when they ran into a wall or something, or they're just straight up scams on indigogo with completely faked videos

yep

But it would be cloud-connected, require a subscription, and record you without your consent...the future we got really could have turned out better.

@@KronoGarrett As much as I'd hate to agree with you, in this day and age, I unfortunately have to.

My pleasure! I was surprised myself to find so few videos going over this in very much depth. It's such a classic bot.