Soda Constructor - Today's Time Waster

This won a Webby a few years ago, and I'm surprised it hasn't come up before, but Soda Constuctor is a favorite of mine. Designed as a teaching tool, Soda Constructor is a Java toy for designing little robots, made of strings and connections. These automotons can be animated, on their own, and try to walk around an environment you control (things like gravity are adjustable). Lots of fun tinkering around, but even more fun to really try and build something stable an interesting. Thanks to Mark for sending this in!

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