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February 22, 2009 by Miss Cellania | 2 comments
Since the story of the BristleBots was published here on Friday, Lenore Edman at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories spoke to developer Pat Murphy at Klutz about the BristleBots. Murphy then posted a report at Scholastic’s website and at Klutz.
We spoke about our shared commitment to making science and technology accessible to children. We began a discussion of ways that Klutz could acknowledge the exceptional work that Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has done in Bristlebot research – starting with this message and continuing with acknowledgment in the next printing of the book and on the Klutz website.
He then reiterated the company’s original story about how they developed the BristleBots. It may be a case of too little, too late. As someone in the comments pointed out, with all the bad publicity surrounding the book and kit, there might not be a second printing.
[via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories]
- Where BristleBots Came From
- I Can Has Cookie?
- Using Google Talk to update your social networks
- Using GTalk and Twitter to update your Google Calendar
Scholastic and Klutz are just a bunch of stinkin’ thieving opportunistic liars.
Hmm you’re going a little hard on them John. They may have started working on a similar project without ever hearing about Evil Scientist’s Bristlebots, but one thing is for sure, they didn’t come up with the name themselves.