Back in the day, I would look at web sites written by college kids with too much time on their hands detailing how, using only seven carefully selected RadioShack parts, they had constructed a pet robot, or something like that. Though I am still working towards the skill of those RadioShack patrons of yore, I made a first foray in to that world in the winter of my freshman year of college. What began as a reason to explore Penn State’s Learning Factory and come out with a party prop soon became known as the “Staff of Doom.” Click for the story and pictures!