Archives for August 2007
Google Sky is Launched!
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 2:28 am.
No Comments.
Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Fun, Internet, Software, Space.
The new version of Google Earth comes with Google Sky! GoogleSky allows you to explore the sky just as you have been exploring the earth.
I am currently installing it and will write more about its functionality in the very near future.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Read ‘Google Sky is Launched!’
Rotating Mars Animation
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 5:58 pm.
No Comments.
Filed under Astronomy, Fun, Mars, Space.
I had been playing with Celestia, and I used it to generate a set of images of Mars as it rotates on its axis. I then was able to paste these together in Adobe ImageReady to create a rotating Mars gif animation.
Feel free to copy it and enjoy!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Read ‘Rotating Mars Animation’
12 Output LEGO Motor Multiplexer
Published on 23 Aug 2007 at 1:34 am.
No Comments.
Filed under Inventions, Lego, Robotics.
Some of the limitations of the LEGO NXT system are related to the fact that, without electronic multiplexers, one can only control three motors with the NXT brick. This individual introduces a mechanical NXT multiplexer that uses two motors but provides 12 outputs!
I have thought about linear designs of this sort, but a rotary design is [...]
Read ‘12 Output LEGO Motor Multiplexer’
Human Computation
Published on 22 Aug 2007 at 11:44 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Computation, Internet, Programming, Research, Software, Technology.
My friend Carlos recently emailed me an interesting talk on leveraging human computation to solve difficult computational problems. The talk was by Luis von Ahn from the Computer Science Department from Carnegie Mellon University, and was presented as a Google Tech Talk last year on July 26, 2006.
As a physicist, I have always marvelled at [...]
Problems Viewing Documents?
Published on 20 Aug 2007 at 9:05 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Internet, Solutions, Technology.
My friend Carlos pointed me to DocuFarm, which is a website that takes documents in a wide range of formats, such as ppt, pdf, ps, xls, rtf, doc, etc, and converts them so that you can view them easily with your browser. No more do you need to install that specialized viewer!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
