Archives for March 2007
Controlling Lego NXT Robots with Matlab
Published on 30 Mar 2007 at 1:16 am.
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Filed under Computation, Lego, NXT, Research, Robotics, Software, Solutions.
For research in Knuthlab, I am interested in controlling the Lego NXT Bricks with Mathworks MATLAB. MATLAB is a high-level mathematical language structured much like C. The main benefit is that many sophisticated mathematical algorithms are available for immediate use in MATLAB, and that these algorithms are fast and easily developed. Furthermore, much signal processing research is performed […]
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Burning Pieces of Space Junk Just Miss Airliner
Published on 28 Mar 2007 at 7:11 pm.
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Filed under Exploration, Physics, Space.
And now for the unforeseen…
A Russian satellite deorbited last night and narrowly missed a LanChile Airbus A340 travelling between Santiago, Chile and Aukland, New Zealand. The pilot radioed air traffic control at Auckland Oceanic Centre and reported flaming space junk re-entering both in front and behind his plane at a distance of five nautical miles. […]
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Texture and Wallpaper Gallery
Published on 26 Mar 2007 at 1:48 am.
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Filed under Photography, Solutions, Travel, Wildlife.
I often like to take photgraphs of various textures and wallpaper. This includes brick walls, tree bark, earth, water, and so on. Recently, I went through and collected together some of these images that I have captured, and I organized them into a photo gallery:
http://www.huginn.com/gallery/
I have been using the Simple Picture Gallery Manager
http://spgm.sourceforge.net/
and found it […]
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Biomimetic Underwater Robots
Published on 24 Mar 2007 at 1:02 am.
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Filed under Fun, Research, Robotics.
Today we had a visit from Dr. Joseph Ayers of Northeastern University and the Marine Science Center. He spoke to us about his research in biomimetic underwater robots. Dr. Ayers is a marine biologist, a neuroscientist, and at this point an engineer, a roboticist, and a nonlinear dynamicist. He has been working on two types of robots: a lobster […]
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Virgin Galactic teams with NASA
Published on 22 Mar 2007 at 12:30 am.
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Filed under Exploration, Inventions.
Virgin Galactic is teaming with NASA Ames Research Center to develop hypersonic aircraft for space tourism. To be hypersonic, an aircraft needs to sustain speeds faster tha 5 times the speed of sound. This is around 3000 miles per hour!
Virgin Galatic is well-poised for such a feat as they have exclusive rights to develop the […]
