Archives for April 2007
Lego Machine used to test Blackberry
Published on 29 Apr 2007 at 12:02 am.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Robotics.
As reported on PCSTATS, Research in Motion (RIM) engineer Matthias Wendel designed a Lego Machine to test their Blackberry Pagers. The machine rotates the pager about two axes in a pre-programmed manner allowing the engineer to systematically test the reception of the 900 MHz wireless device in the environment.
This is an excellent example of how […]
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EarthPortal.org
Published on 25 Apr 2007 at 9:06 pm.
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Filed under Climate, Energy, Internet.
I just received a notice that EarthPortal.org will be launching on Friday April 27, 2007. Apparently, it will be a news portal where hundreds of scientists will contribute on anything EARTH.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Google Sky?
Published on 24 Apr 2007 at 1:01 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Internet, Research, Software, Space.
I recently learned that there is work being performed to develop GoogleSky. GoogleSky will be the equivalent of Google Earth but for all things astronomical. It will allow us to easily peruse and search the massive datasets that have been collected from the various space missions. Such a venture would be a great asset to […]
Lego Central Drive Animation
Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 11:00 pm.
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Filed under Acoustics, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Research, Robotics, Software.
I am slowly constructing my first intelligent instrument. It will be an instrument that learns the acoustic radiation pattern emitted by a speaker. It is not a perfect acoustic experiment—nor is it meant to be. Uncertainties and errors abound, especially since I am using the Lego NXT Mindstorms system to construct the instrument.
The design is […]
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NASA Vision Workbench
Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 10:37 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Intelligent Systems, Note to Self, Research, Robotics, Software.
The NASA Vision Workbench (VW) is a general purpose image processing and computer vision library developed by Matt Hancher and colleagues from the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) Area in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center. The VW website has all the necessary installation information as well as the documentation titled […]
