This is a continuation of this article from the other day.
The Crab Beam, which you might think never dies like a comic book character,
is actually a real hassle to revive.
↑This is the former Crab Beam, now called S Beam, after being dragged away by the thought police
and having its firmware forcibly rewritten under the guise of "interrogation" and thought reform.
(Assuming its previous behavior was normal)
It's saying something quite bizarre that I don't understand.
Fixing this back to normal is extremely tedious,
but I figure I'll need to do it again in the future, so I'll give it my best shot.
Normally, crabs have 4 pairs of legs besides their claws, making 8 legs total, but the Crab Beam has 3 pairs, or 6 legs.
The Crab Beam has 4 ports on each side of its body,
and leg-type attachments are plugged into these ports to serve as legs.
The reason why one port is left empty is unknown.
Also, the ports aren't evenly distributed across the body side—they're concentrated at the bottom—
which appears to be for upright walking.
Edit: I wrote "indirect" instead of "joint," but please ignore that.
Thank you for pointing it out in the comments.
First, I powered it down and replaced the optical ball legs—
4 on the right and 2 on the left—back to 3 on each side.
But just doing that isn't enough to turn it back into the Crab Beam;
I also need to rewrite the firmware.
The Crab Beam's firmware is a very unusual specification.
First, I pull out the denim overalls stored inside its body.
↑By rewriting the name tag on this farmwear (※farm wear)
its personality and such can be altered.
Right now it says "S's Accomplice,"
but I haven't the faintest idea what the "S" means.
※To Parents:
The spelling for firmware in the general sense is
"Firmware." Please make sure your children don't learn it incorrectly.
By rewriting this to "Crab Beam,"
it should return to normal...
Let me power it on.
Sorry for the wait!
Here's the actual measured weight of the rim from the other day!
I took apart the front wheel with pliers and measured just the rim!
↑Yes, keep going!
Also, about what happened when I wrote "Musashibou Benkei" on the firmware:
It began to smoothly pretend to read a blank scroll
as if it actually had something written on it (←not necessarily because it's the Ataka Barrier scene)
A rain of arrows came flying at me, apparently because the content was inappropriate.
I'm not speaking figuratively when I say I "stood in the line of fire."
I look forward to continuing to work with such a Crab Beam.
As a side note, in this mode,
the far end of the leg tubes from the body becomes a weak point.
It's particularly vulnerable to impacts from blunt objects,
and is apparently called "Nakidokoro" in technical jargon.
"To compensate for the weaknesses of such exoskeletons, the Crab Beam's legs have
specialized reinforced plastic plates embedded in them,
which were inspired by the transparent plastic plates
that craftsmen at food factories embed one by one
into the legs of crabs sold for general consumption,
as you discerning readers have no doubt already deduced.
(Source: From "Kani Kani Doko Kani" published by Minmei Publishing House)"
The Crab Beam, which you might think never dies like a comic book character,
is actually a real hassle to revive.
↑This is the former Crab Beam, now called S Beam, after being dragged away by the thought police
and having its firmware forcibly rewritten under the guise of "interrogation" and thought reform.
(Assuming its previous behavior was normal)
It's saying something quite bizarre that I don't understand.
Fixing this back to normal is extremely tedious,
but I figure I'll need to do it again in the future, so I'll give it my best shot.
Normally, crabs have 4 pairs of legs besides their claws, making 8 legs total, but the Crab Beam has 3 pairs, or 6 legs.
The Crab Beam has 4 ports on each side of its body,
and leg-type attachments are plugged into these ports to serve as legs.
The reason why one port is left empty is unknown.
Also, the ports aren't evenly distributed across the body side—they're concentrated at the bottom—
which appears to be for upright walking.
Edit: I wrote "indirect" instead of "joint," but please ignore that.
Thank you for pointing it out in the comments.
First, I powered it down and replaced the optical ball legs—
4 on the right and 2 on the left—back to 3 on each side.
But just doing that isn't enough to turn it back into the Crab Beam;
I also need to rewrite the firmware.
The Crab Beam's firmware is a very unusual specification.
First, I pull out the denim overalls stored inside its body.
↑By rewriting the name tag on this farmwear (※farm wear)
its personality and such can be altered.
Right now it says "S's Accomplice,"
but I haven't the faintest idea what the "S" means.
※To Parents:
The spelling for firmware in the general sense is
"Firmware." Please make sure your children don't learn it incorrectly.
By rewriting this to "Crab Beam,"
it should return to normal...
Let me power it on.
Sorry for the wait!
Here's the actual measured weight of the rim from the other day!
I took apart the front wheel with pliers and measured just the rim!
↑Yes, keep going!
Also, about what happened when I wrote "Musashibou Benkei" on the firmware:
It began to smoothly pretend to read a blank scroll
as if it actually had something written on it (←not necessarily because it's the Ataka Barrier scene)
A rain of arrows came flying at me, apparently because the content was inappropriate.
I'm not speaking figuratively when I say I "stood in the line of fire."
I look forward to continuing to work with such a Crab Beam.
As a side note, in this mode,
the far end of the leg tubes from the body becomes a weak point.
It's particularly vulnerable to impacts from blunt objects,
and is apparently called "Nakidokoro" in technical jargon.
"To compensate for the weaknesses of such exoskeletons, the Crab Beam's legs have
specialized reinforced plastic plates embedded in them,
which were inspired by the transparent plastic plates
that craftsmen at food factories embed one by one
into the legs of crabs sold for general consumption,
as you discerning readers have no doubt already deduced.
(Source: From "Kani Kani Doko Kani" published by Minmei Publishing House)"