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02/07/2000 | LEGOs and robots |
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tell us a | |
tale | I HAVE COME FOR YOUR SOFT INNARDS LITTLE CHILD |
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up with | |
fun! | After this weekend, my badly designed robot is now |
| able to terrorize the house. It no longer breaks |
| when bumping into things, and it even has a |
| proximity detector so it runs into things even less. |
| Now, the problem is more mundane; one motor for each |
| of the back wheels leaves no control for steering, |
| which leads to navigational problems down the road. |
| If I have them go in opposite directions, any |
| attachments on the front just sort of scrape along. |
| I am a dork! Now for some links. |
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mind green | |
| I was joking about it earlier this week, but |
| somebody has created a robotic automated plant |
| watering system. Also, his other bots are powered |
| by a combination of sped-up clocks, watches, and |
| solar power. |
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the best of | |
the best | The NASA Space Telerobotics Program has a neat |
| listing of intruiging robots. |
| Don't miss the rats trained to control robot arms |
| with their minds. |
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combat | |
fatigue | Battlebots has some interesting Real clips of all- |
| out battles between weight-regulated metal robots. |
| Recommended: turn off sound so that you don't have |
| to listen to the announcer aping professional |
| wrestling commentary. |
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| Why you should always keep a low profile. |
| |
| Incredible metal-piercing scorpion design versus |
| silly spastic box. |
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| Mechadon: Chromed-out 400 pound insectoid! |
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| Good example of the general uselessness of Real for |
| fast-moving media. |
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getting | |
closer | Robo Gladiators is a LEGO-sponsored event which does |
| the same thing as Battle Bots, except requires that |
| the bots be composed entirely of LEGO bricks. Also, |
| the site details a very interesting voltage hack |
| using only LEGO bricks! |
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you're it | |
| Matt has Robotag, which is a slightly less violent |
| version of the robot fighting games; just bump your |
| opponent before they bump you! Real video included |
| here as well, but it didn't work for me. |
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deeper | |
reference | AI and Machine Learning with respect to Lego Robots |
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| MIT: Beyond Black Boxes |
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| Fred@MIT's Learning Brick site |
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| Spotlight on Programmable LEGO Bricks in the |
| Classroom |
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| Patent describing the ultra cool plug-any-which-way |
| connections. |
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| The Art of LEGO Design [pdf] |
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| "Where Am I? -- Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot |
| Positioning" [BIG pdf] |
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people and | |
their happy | Doug's Lego Craziness is even neater now than it was |
robots | way back when I linked it. |
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| Spider Robot [swell] |
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| Ben's LEGO Creations include a righteous line art |
| plotter. |
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| Dave Astalfo's cool Mindstorm robots |
| [Especially the 6-legged walker and Johnny 5] |
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| InfraDreadnaughts sounds really fun. [Neat robots, |
| scroll down for description of autonomous attackers] |
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link | |
listings | O'Reilly book linklist |
that I am | |
needlessly | Dennis Clark's linklist points to some of his nifty |
duplicating | projects that I might even be able to pull off. The |
| whisker one, at least. After that, the schematics |
| scare me. |
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| Mindstorms Internals linklist - Techish stuff |
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| LUGnet robotics section |
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other | |
methods of | Not Quite C is a more familiar interface to the |
control | RCX's command language. The lack of certain editing |
| functions (like copy and paste) are missing from the |
| admittedly easy-to-use default Mindstorm IDE. |
| |
| RCX Command Center is a Windows frontend to NQC, and |
| is very handy. Plus, it's got some fun toys; you |
| tell it how your motoring system works and it lets |
| you remotely control your bot. I hooked up the ol' |
| joystick and gave it a go; way too much fun! Now to |
| get it to react to joystick buttons... |
| |
| The RCXCC site also has very nice tips, including |
| some help with bumper assemblies. [Always having |
| trouble with mine.] |
| |
| Bot-Kit uses Dolphin Smalltalk to produce RCX code. |
| Ehh... yes. |
| |
| PerlRCX utilizes Perl to talk directly to the |
| control brick through the serial port IR. |
| |
| RCXTools includes a Perl disassembler that can pick |
| apart the opcodes. |
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electronic | |
garbage | RCX internals |
| |
| Michael Gasperi has a page on Sensor Input including |
| ripping that weird light sensor apart. Mr. Sensor: |
| Graph the values! [probably handy for testing light |
| sensor reflections] |
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blah | |
| Huge blast of nostalgia. |
| |
| Once upon a time, I owned all these Space sets: |
uhoh | |
| 442 452 885 886 889 1498 1499 1557 1558 1580 1968 |
| 6750 6803 6804 6805 6807 6809 6826 6841 6845 6846 |
| 6849 6872 6874 6880 6882 6883 6891 6926 6928 6930 |
| 6931 6951 6952 6972 6980 6985 6876 6894 6941 6954 |
| 6987 6851 6812 6878 6887 6933 6981 6988 6810 6828 |
| 6848 6850 6875 6884 6885 6925 6932 6953 6990 6811 |
| 6862 6923 6989 6781 6831 6886 6895 6955 6986 |
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| The walking Astro Grappler, man! |
| |
| The Solar Power Transporter split into modular |
| pieces and reattached into different awesome |
| configurations. |
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| The Multi Core Magnetizer had a magnet crane. |
| |
| Galaxy Commander and Cosmic Fleet Voyager versus |
| Battrax and Renegade! |
| |
| THE MONORAIL!!! Those were the days. Man, I'm a |
| dork. That was so much fun though. |
| |
| Since then, the sets have gotten incredibly trippy |
| and specialized. |
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lego aided | |
scifi | 3rd Millenium |
constructs | |
| Moonbase IO |
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| Last week is history. |
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eh? | This is the log of a faceless entity. Me. I wander |
| around the web, and point out what are most likely |
| completely useless things for you to visit. It's |
| where I have been, what I learned there, and what I |
| plan to figure out in the future. All in the palm |
| of your hand. |
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the daily | Technically speaking, this is a "weblog". There are |
surfing | many weblogs. You can probably find one that suits |
tools | your tastes pretty closely in the morass below, but |
| if not, use the pitas system to track yourself. |
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contact | Dan Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com / ICQ 363803 |
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old archives: dots are interstitial weekly posts
grid puzzles: waste time with boxes and their brethren
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chip music: listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE
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lewis carroll: charles dodgson wrote some happy tales
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opinionation: how do you do, capitalism? how do you?
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defunct rock: amf, grammatrain, jawbox, poor old lu, roadside
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ascii games: to quote salon, @ <- you are here
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voicemail: automated telephone systems
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bach and tone: the endlessly rising canon of links
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eigenspace: eigen wha?
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possible subjects: feel free to suggest or help out
falling pod: zoooooming through the earth's crust
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occam's razor: computational reflection
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bad art: clean up old gallery
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demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscope
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WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site
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cardboardic: disposable release
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collage: photographic and non, preferably non-digital
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stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak
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pita wrapper: perl posting app to hide/change interfaces
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a musical | |
diagramme | 2--. .--1 |
| Pajo |.'.| McMahon |
| 1-.' '.-2 |
| .' .'. '. |
| 2-.' .' . '. '.-1 |
| Patton |--: .:!:. :--| Grubbs |
| 1-'. '. .' .'-2 |
| '. | | .' |
| 2-'. .'-1 |
| Zorn |'.'| Fahey |
| 1--' '--2 |
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| David Grubbs - Potato Lettuce.mp3 [10.6mb] |
day 1 | vs. |
| John Fahey - Charles A. Lee.mp3 [4.3mb] |
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| John Fahey - Requiem for Molly (p3).mp3 [2.0mb] |
day 2 | vs. |
| John Zorn - Cartoon Music.mp3 [15.8mb] |
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| John Zorn - Saigon Pickup.mp3 [4.1mb] |
day 3 | vs. |
| Mr. Bungle - Ars Moriendi.mp3 [4.3mb] |
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| Mr. Bungle - The Holy Filament.mp3 [4.3mb] |
day 4a | vs. |
| Aerial M - Skrag Theme.mp3 [3.4mb] |
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| Papa M - I Am Not Lonely w/ Cricket.mp3 [7.9mb] |
day 4b | vs. |
| The For Carnation - Salo.mp3 [4.9mb] |
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| Squirrel Bait - Sun God.mp3 [2.8mb] |
day 5 | vs. |
| Bastro - I Come From a Long Line.mp3 [3.4mb] |
| (of Shipbuilders) |
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Big brother is watching. Poorly.
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