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Wednesday, 15 June 2005 |
I saw this link on hackaday (great
site, btw). In the article it describes how to hack your normal track
ball mouse and use those nifty encoders inside of it to do shaft
encoding. It's a pretty simple hack, really, only involving desoldering
a few components and then reattaching them to a perf board.
If you aren't familiar with quadrature encoding, National Instruments has a brief description of it.
The only problem is that you might have difficulty hooking the encoder
up to something to actually measure (usually a wheel). Let me know how
it works out.
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Wednesday, 22 June 2005 |
 Dragon Runner - military.com
The first story,
says that the enemy is wising up to their mechanical adversaries and
are starting to target them. Better a robot than a soldier. The story
focus' on the Dragon Runner military 'bot devloped by Carnegie
Mellon University. Officials are calling it a, "critical piece of
equipment" and the folks at CMU say they are going to double their
product capacity soon.
The Army is using this as part of it's larger plan for a $100 billion
"Future Combat System" which includes lots of robots and is supposed to
be in place by 2010. This will be a huge industry folks - better jump on the bandwagon now.
The second story shows how important mine nutralization robots
are to the Amry. Instead of actually having to visit a munition in the
field, a soldier can remotely drive the robot to the munition and
determine how to disarm it.
iRobot also has an extensive product line of military robots. Take a look.
Update: Here's another article about how robots are helping out soldiers. More detailed info on how the Dragon Runners are being used in Iraq.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2005 |
 Here's a pretty comprehensive article
on Toshiba's quest for a "life support robot." They will be demoing the
robots at the Prototype Robot Exhibition in Japan from June 9 to 19th.
The will be demoing two robots - Robot one is able to recognize a
specific voice in a crowd from any direction and then locate that
voice. Robot two can follow a specific person in a crowd. "As the
subject moves, an integrated ultrasonic sensor checks for
obstacles in the robot's way, and the robot negotiates these while
maintaining visual contact with the person."
The following robot size is as follows: diameter 380mm, heigt 430mm, weight 10kg.
The hearing robot is: diameter 450mm, heigt 900mm, weight 30kg.
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Sunday, 12 June 2005 |
 Check out the picture and tell me if it isn't a bit ...
weird. No, not the guy, the woman - She's fake! She's yet another
feature at the World Expo 2005 which we covered previously.
It/she breaths in a human like manner, has 31 points of articulation in
her torso, skin-like silicon covering, natural eye movements, and evil
glowing red eyes (well, at least in my nightmares).
National Geo has a blurb about her.
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Saturday, 11 June 2005 |
 Well folks, here's your opportunity to fulfill all your
childhood dreams of having a robotic helicopter. Check out the Cheap Robotic Helicopter Howto. The intro reads:
This document explains how to build a 300 g, 3D-capable helicopter with
embedded Linux and Bluetooth datalink for less than 500 EUR.
The processor for the design is the Linux SBC Gumstix.
Here are some links to various RC helicopters to get you started:
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Saturday, 11 June 2005 |
 Circle you calendars for June 28-30. AUVSI is putting on their annual robotics shindig! You can read the official press release or visit the website here.
Highlights are said to include "150,000 square feet of hardware and
static equipment displax," lots of cool talks, good networking, and
over 200 exhibitors.
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Saturday, 11 June 2005 |
For the next three weeks I'm going to be teaching the Duke TIP robotics summer camp along with my good friend, Ken Boone.
This whole week I've been swamped with setting up and training for
that. Apologies on no posts. So, here's the link dump from this week:
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