The Rotor here has been a little lax on the up-post, sorry. Currently — and that’s a pun, ha ha — his head is aspin with visions of orb swarms in the desert. They will look like this:

And they are robots, made from plasma-cut stainless steel. An internal motor/counterweight system allows them to roll and steer without wheels. They will flock and dance, make odd otherworldly sounds and at night glow in spectral colors. The Head Rotor thinks this is about the coolest thing on the dry lake bed, and he’s right now up to his roller bearings in H-bridge schematics and various motor control arcana to make them go. The people who run that foolishness in the desert seem to agree, and have even rewarded us with a little robot juice so we can build them. More news as it occurs!

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