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Sci-Fi author Margaret Atwood won’t need to travel for book signings any longer it seems, she’ll have a video screen and a robot arm that translate he movements to sign books for her. I suppose the proper term will be “tele-signing”? [via] Link. Until we get a chance to see this in person, here’s how […]
Michael writes in about his Rooma projects – “I hacked my own firmware into the thing [Roomba] the very Saturday morning the announcement about the SCI came out on Slashdot, but, well, you know, them’s the breaks. I’ve since written a player driver for the thing I’m about to release, and I’ve got some nifty […]
Robot Magazine has some details about a pretty cool sounding combat robot event – “Battle Beach, LLC, in partnership with Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, is pleased to announce that their next robot combat event, Battle Beach 4, will be held in Summer 2006. This is the Robot Fighting League’s (RFL) Southeast Championships and an RFL […]
Matt writes “Is .mac worth it to me? Many of the reasons I do not find .mac useful are the same reasons I encourage others to use it. My needs are different than the average computer user. This is not an “I hate .mac” article but rather an explanation of the motivation and methods I […]
Here’s a how to on making an optical encoder that can be used for an autonomous robot – Piotr writes – “An optical encoder measures how far something has moved, optically. It does this by looking at a pattern of alternating black-and-white, and counting number of transitions…” Link.
Here are a couple fun TI-83 projects sent in from our MAKE readers over the weekend – “Telnet 83 v0.96 Beta for the TI-83. This program will allow you to connect to the Internet from your TI-83 and allow you to do IRC, e-mail, or browse the World Wide Web. You need a TI-Graph Link […]
