I saw a soduko solver somewhere today, and this is the website that it was on. These are two pretty nifty robots, one that solves Rubik’s cubes and the other solves soduko. Looks like they’re both done with LEGO mindstorms, so given that small footprint these are pretty elegant solutions.
Tilted Twister
Here’s an interesting video found via Make. It shows work done on the vision system of an ASIMO robot to detect and avoid moving obstacles in it’s environment. It’s amazing to watch this robot navigate and calculate trajectories completely on the fly.
Make: Online : ASIMO avoids moving obstacles
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Their work looks like so much fun.
Video displaying the new BMW concept car covered in cloth. I personally think it’s great. Most likely it’s considerably more energy efficient to produce, and I think it’s definitely more attractive. Perhaps some day we’ll see this.
Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.
No I don’t mean that crappy plastic board. Some students made this Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 it’s a horse hair board that is a very complex but well done project. It’s worth the read to find out how they did the dart detection alone.
Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on [...]
Reddot was the design concept – winners 2006 for a moldable mouse made from clay and covered in Nylon. The buttons and scroll wheel are to be stickable components RFID enabled so they can transmit to the base. If this is so, it is hereby declared awesome.
Someone has built a human carrying electric plane. The original site was in French so here’s Translated version of http://www.apame.eu/Projet03.html. Now all they need is some solar panels on the wings.
It looks like O’Reilly has put iPhone Open Application Development up for early purchase as a rough cut. I’m really having a hard time not buying it right now. I’ve been so anxious to get a look at the API for the iPhone and can’t wait to get my hands on it. [...]