Jamie Hyneman's Racing robotic spiders

Not one to rest, Jamie put the MythBusters filming hiatus to good use. Here's a glimpse of his super secret spider build, and watch for the full series on Tested later this fall.

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Jamie takes the stage at our live show to introduce his Racing Spiders project, an experiment in implementing a new linkage system that has never been tested before. Instead of individual motors responsible for each of the mechanical spider's legs, Jamie's design is powered by just two motors. The movement is mesmerizing!

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When given the opportunity by Evernote to build anything he wants, Jamie chooses a complicated exercise in engineering that he's mulled for years: racing robotic spiders. But the project comes at a time when Jamie and Adam will be abroad, so it's Evernote and a solutions shop called Kernerworks to the rescue.

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For additional behind-the-scenes footage, Jamie's original build notes and project photos, check out: http://evernote.com/projects

It's an exercise in troubleshooting as Jamie and the Kernerworks crew try various last-minute tweaks to the not-quite-operational spiders in order to make them race-ready the next day.

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It's race day, and Adam joins Jamie on the motocross track to put the robotic spiders through their paces. But things don't QUITE go as planned.

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At the conclusion of the Robot Racing Spiders project, we check in with Jamie to talk about what went right and wrong with this experiment. Jamie walks us through the mechanics of the spider build, how his design was implemented, and what he didn't expect to happen.

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