[edit]Evatech has decided to stop selling their DIY plans, they sell full "turnkeys" only now. as such I'm no longer going to give them any free link backs. [/edit]

Free similar DIY plans are now available here. Please give this guy your support since evatech apparently doesn't care to support the DIY community any longer...

Be great for chasing the Mother-in-law around!

Wonder how fast it'll go?

Thats a very expensive lawnmower. Wonder if you could program it? That would be cool.
Right about noon, nobody home, out comes a little fleet of these things...

Keep the neighbors dogs off your lawn too if they arent careful!

Any luck in your HARDY rose search SJ?

With your luck there'd be a glitch and the dad-gum things would mow your roses down! :angry:

Nope still searching. I think I am going to have to knuckle under and buy some of the explorer series.

Interesting roses. I think we're gonna be in the market for some within a year. Let me know which one(s) you get and maybe I'll sink some down here for a control experiment.

I KNOW they will grow down there. Zone 6 , right?
I need zone3 roses!

Basically roses with antifreeze for blood!

Yeah - I consider it more "6-ish".

We've actually lost stuff rated for 5 and IIRC one rated for 4.

No such thing as too hardy.

*Standing on front porch in bathrobe, shaking fist in the air*
You damn robots get offa my lawn!

Uh-oh! Who pushed ShamanDave's "old coot" button!!!

I knew it , I knew it........battlebots has gone domestic. Slap a wireless video camera on it and I can do my lawn work in the kitchen while I'm eating my breakfast.

Go ahead and laugh, but anyone who doesn't see the danger these things represent must see the movie Frankenhooker as soon as possible.

Conversation from last century:

Man: Hey Jimmy , cut my lawn for 5.00?
Kid: Sure I will do it Saturday
Man: Great. My wife will make you lemonade too!
Kid: Gosh Mister, that would be swell!

Conversation from a few years from now:

Man: Hey Jimmy cut my lawn for 20 dollars?
Kid: Is your lawn mapped out?
Man: Huh?
Kid: Do you have a grid of your lawn?
Man: A grid?
Kid: Yeah , so I can program the mower.
Man: Uhmm...no
Kid: Well thats gonna be extra. Mapping your grid is going to be at least 50 dollars.
Man: You cant mow the lawn without one?
Kid: No, then I would have to do it manually, thats too much work for me...
Man: But thats the point...
Kid: The point is money mister. I need money to buy chips and ram so I can hack my way to stardom!
Man: Oh...well is there anyone who can do it with a regular old fashioned push mower?
Kid: Yeah, my dad
Man: nevermind, I'll just plow it under and cover it with rocks...

SJ

I think I'm just gonna buy some goats. I'm getting depressed watching my lawn green up this spring. Takes too much time to mow. Gotta get my projector done!!!

I had no idea you knew my son.

Here's a cool one....
http://www.robotshop.ca/home/products/pers...wers/index.html

With a name like "Friendly Robotics," they absolutely must be plotting to take over the world.

"The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as 'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with.' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.'"

anybody see the latest populat science?
they have a small DIY RC lawnmower built from
an RC toy hummer and a battery powered
trimmer only cuts a 12" swath, but it's still pretty neat.

Evatech has decided to stop selling their DIY plans, they sell full "turnkeys" only now. as such I'm no longer going to give them any free link backs.

Free similar DIY plans are now available here. Please give this guy your support since evatech apparently doesn't care to support the DIY community any longer...

About a month ago I saw an article about one of those robotic mowers killing someone. The mower weighed about 500lb and was used on steep hills where regular men with mowers could not climb becasue of the slope. The commercial robotic mower lost its balance, rolled, and landed on its operator blade side down. Lets just say that the man is no longer living and not go into the details.

Oops... Had to edit this when I realized I made basically the same Frankenhooker joke twice in the same thread. To be fair, though. I made the last one over a year ago.

I'm surprised that no one has said anything about the movie "Honey I Shrunk the Kids". There's a better mower that is the equivalent to a roomba, but it's for your lawn. It works pretty good too!

wow that movie's old

*thinking of giant stuffed oatmeal cookies*