In MAKE Volume 16 , we ran a Maker profile of Marque Cornblatt and his autonomous telepresence robot, Sparky 2. In Marque’s own words, from the profile: In the early 90s, I began building a wireless, rolling, remote control robot with a two-way video chat setup positioned at eye level, which enabled real-time, face-to-face communication. I found most of the materials dumpster diving or at garage sales: a motorized wheelchair, a few old video cameras, a wireless baby monitor, some R/C toys
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