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28メートル落ちても平気で走り回るゴキブリ型ロボット

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This smart wheelchair has laser vision

Helping robots see with lasers

In order to “see” and respond to its environment as it navigates around a city, says Spletzer, a robot must possess two things: sensors that detect and recognize familiar landmarks and a database with maps that show where those landmarks will be.

Spletzer and his students have taken a cue from Google Street View, which allows Internet users to take virtual tours of distant cities, block by block and building by building, by looking at thousands of stored images. These images are of little use to robots equipped with lasers, says Spletzer, because robots do not see what humans see. But the concept is applicable to the robotic wheelchair.

“To create Google Street View, people drive vehicles around cities, take thousands of images and make maps. We’re making similar maps that are useful for robots, not people. Our robots respond to different cues than humans respond to. Whereas people see the real world and all its details, robots using lasers recognize things like poles and building corners that reduce to a very exact point and are thus easy to track.”

via Phyorg

次世代自転車を考える会

via Make Japan

有很多實用的自製腳踏車

Catena clock tells time with a chain

via Make

Rock Band played with a flute

via Engadget

有點長 但是很有趣

PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable AA batteries (1.6V 2500ma)

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Amazon 有賣

Depoteco <- More Information & Test Result

Shoes made out of bread

via Boingboing

麵包機的新用途!

真正的"印刷"電路板

Xerox's process uses ink containing silver metal that can be used to wire up processing circuitry. It works on surfaces such as plastic that earlier have shown an inconvenient tendency to melt under the high temperature of liquid silver; Xerox's process works with an ink compound with a much lower temperature, the company said.

via cnet

Software Listens for Hints of Depression

It's a common complaint in any communication breakdown: "It's not what you said, it's how you said it." For professor Sandy Pentland and his group at MIT's Media Lab, the tone and pitch of a person's voice, the length and frequency of pauses and speed of speech can reveal much about his or her mood.

via MIT Technology Review

【電影預告】八田與一Pattenrai

via 妙子的故鄉

片名：【八田與一Pattenrai】
台灣上映檔期：11月13日。
片長：90分鐘
類型：勵志、動畫、歷史/傳記
監製：石黒　昇
主題曲演唱：一青 窈
製作公司：「八田來了!!」製作委員會、日本「北國新聞社」、手塚治虫設立的「虫製作公司」
台灣發行：華映娛樂股份有限公司

PS.八田有沒有愛台灣我不知道 但是在民視台灣演義的介紹下 我覺得他是一位很有抱負 有遠見 的專業工程師 對他而言他要負責的對象不是總督府內的長官 而是使用他的設計建造的農民 這就是專業

Robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone use Arduino

via Engadget

我喜歡懶惰的人 懶到連Game都要讓robot幫你玩 懶惰是人類文明進步的動力

Processor built with Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL)

via HackADay

其實我去學IC設計就是想作一顆MCU不過我從沒想過要用TTL作一顆 因為我真的繞過一些TTL的版子 說真的很累人 而且當時的儀器還真難Debug

有趣的早期日本3D照片

還有很多照片 via Pinktentacle.

海洋楽研究所、水中ロボットを愛知工科大学で実演

via Robot Watch

可以拿各式各樣東西的Robot Hand

 

via MIT Technology Review

Toshiba Dynario fuel-cell: the battery revolution begins October 29th

哇真的開賣了 Toshiba燃料電池 只是一顆要¥29,800

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FreeCAD

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挖出一個正方形的孔

一般的鑽頭只能鑽出圓形的洞 這支可以鑽出方形的洞 厲害

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這一生至少當一次傻瓜

這個阿伯花了10年發現一個我們都知道但是沒人要去做的真理 "有健康的土地就有健康的果樹就有開心的農夫" 再不了解情況之下捷徑(農藥作物改良)一般都是短期效果 長期都會造成傷害 

想想我們的教育是不是應該由 "有一個快樂上學的學生找到學習的動機自然有開心的老師" 來取代 "只要烤烤烤就有好成績上好學校上好大學...就有好工作才有好人生"

GMC-4 4bit Potable Computer

這才叫Portable Computing. Instant-On 100ms. Ready to Run. Ready to Program.Fun-To Play 從學生時代接觸了數位邏輯設計後就被各式各樣的Computer,Calculator,CPU,MCU給吸引 尤其是越簡單的系統越有趣 過去的小教授到現在的Arduino都是很棒的最簡系統 這台GMC-4更是極致阿

35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography

via Wire

上帝也是個不錯的印象畫家

有人發明 就有人會嘗試

Nikon's Small World gallery

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Big Boy & Big Girl

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這是為了慶祝兩德統一的遊行

4-Bit Microcomputer Kit

via Make

這是一定要的啦