n-rd » Hardware http://blog.n-rd.com Everyone has an inner n-rd. Mon, 24 May 2010 14:34:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Tilted Twister http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/27/tilted-twister/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/27/tilted-twister/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:08:45 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/?p=138 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

]]> http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/27/tilted-twister/feed/ 0 ASIMO avoids moving obstacles http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/24/asimo-avoids-moving-obstacles/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2009/08/24/asimo-avoids-moving-obstacles/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:46:16 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/?p=136 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

At this rate the robot is going to get mad that humans keep moving it’s blue dot around. Poor little guy, he just wants to stand on his dot.

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Their work looks like so much fun.

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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.

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]]> http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/02/13/electronic-darts/feed/ 0 And where is my flying car. http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/02/06/and-where-is-my-flying-car/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/02/06/and-where-is-my-flying-car/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:27:11 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/2008/02/06/and-where-is-my-flying-car/ 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 digital storage.

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