[dhicks6345789]

> all I really want is a slug laser

Even better: a slug-hunting robot powered by fermented slugs:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/tmp/slugbot.html

The project is from circa-2000, I remember being impressed by the idea at the time, and I'd have thought slug-hunting robots would be more of a common thing by now - turns out robotics for agriculture are hard.

[woutgaze]

> a slug-hunting robot powered by fermented slugs

Isn’t that called a duck?

[bserge]

Ha.

But actually, if most people weren't so averse to biological organisms, perhaps we would've had computer controlled ducks, rats, hens and other small animals by now.

Why bother reinventing the whole thing when you could just replace (part of) their brains.

Experimentation would be pretty gruesome though.

[ratsforhorses]

I use cabbage plants strategically placed, left to go to seed, all the snails hit onme them so you either watch or pick em up and throw them on the compost (or in the pond for the fish?) I heard comfrey leaves can serve the same purpose...