Archives for 3 April 2008

Arthur C. Clarke’s Last Interview

Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 11:24 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Visionaries.

IEEE Spectrum radio has on audio podcast the last interview with Arthur C. Clarke.
Futurist and science fiction author, Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) created 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as envisioning using geosynchronous satellites for global communication. He is also a huge proponent of the Space Elevator, and says that we will start [...]

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Making Things Talk

Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 2:20 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Coding, Entrepreneurship, Evolution, Exploration, Fun, Gadgets, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Technology.

Looking back, I am surprised at how electronics has quietly advanced to the point where we can buy small programmable computers on chips for a dollar or two.  These are microcontrollers of course, and in my lab we are working on programming them to handle the tedious tasks in our robotics projects.
At makezine.com, I stumbled on this gem of [...]

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