n-rd » Programming http://blog.n-rd.com Everyone has an inner n-rd. Tue, 10 May 2011 15:59:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Factory Made With Lego Robots http://blog.n-rd.com/2011/04/21/factory-made-with-lego-robots/ http://blog.n-rd.com/2011/04/21/factory-made-with-lego-robots/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:07:21 +0000 Adam http://blog.n-rd.com/?p=319 This guys builds a quad delta robot arm system that can “pick and place” items from an assembly line.  He does this all from Lego.  Awesome work.

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Finally you can see a break down of where all your tax dollars are going.  Now if only I could edit this and put that money spent on defense to being spent on NASA.

What do you think about the disbursement of your tax dollars? Tell us in the comments.

(Via Consumerist.)

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Bubble sort dance

We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see them through the spirit of Hungarian folk dance. In a series of four videos (so far), folks at Sapientia University in Romania demonstrate how different sorting algorithms work with numbered people dancing around and arranging themselves from least to greatest.

See them in action in the video below. This one is for Bubble-sort. They move with such zest.

[Video Link via @shancarter & Boing Boing]

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(Via FlowingData.)

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Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface

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Their work looks like so much fun.

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