• Final Remix@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Dude just train pigeons and crows to do your bidding. They’re clever and you can pay them in snacks.

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      6 days ago

      Until they want salary and rights. Just keep at it with children and low income people they don’t complain hard enough. /s

    • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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      7 days ago

      This very much could be real.

      Experiments have shown before that simple insects have very simple responses to detecting light in different directions. Shine a light in one eye, they go left. Shine a light in the other eye, they go right. Shine a light in both eyes, they go straight forward.

      It would be fairly simple to glue a couple tiny LEDs to the insect’s eyes and wire them up to a tiny microcontroller and radio receiver. And voila – remote control roach.

      Probably not super reliable in the controls and doesn’t always go exactly where you want it … but it should do a decent job of going in the general direction you tell it to.