Dance Robot, Dance!

Robonova-1 

The degrees of freedom on these things just gets better and better as time goes on. I keep thinking that a clip of dancing robots will surface showing the guys building ‘robot’ pyramids or doing monkey chains. Looking forward to when they become waterproof and start doing synchronized swimming routines. The coolest innovation so far has got to be the way they can be programmed. You can still use the old spread sheet looking method of setting the joint position on a time line sort of interface if you want but the coolest way is the following:

The simplest way to program ROBONOVA-1 is with the “catch and play” function. Using RoboScript or RoboBasic, just move the robot into any position and click the mouse to “capture” that position. Move the robot into another position and repeat the process. The software then links these “captured” positions and once activated, smoothly transitions the robot’s movements through these programmed positions.

Hard to beat that!

Robonovanova-1

(Thanks to special agent Kevin who is on assignment at the digital frontier for this link)

DIY Macro Photography with Disposable Camera

I saw this over on Hack-a-day this morning while I was looking around the ‘net. The project is clever, I have a bunch of disposable cameras for playing around with myself. I find the lenses to be of a veru low quality but for doing simple macro work they are good enough.

DIY Macro Photography with Disposable Camera

Airline Meals.net

Food on EVA Air 

After just finishing up another long flight from Thailand to the states, I was reminded of a site that I had seen a long time ago.  Who would have thought that there would be a site dedicated to photos of food served on airlines? (Takes all sorts doesnt it?) This is just about what I has for breakfast on my last EVA Air flight, it was pretty darn good too! No hash browns though, just these mashed potato chip things. The food was great on all my flights, that happens when your not flying US domestic routes. If you have to fly from the US to anywhere in Asia make sure you use a company that is foreign! The food and service are so much better than a US airline would be.

Airline Meals.net – Airline catering * largest site about airline catering and nothing but that… 🙂