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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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My First Google Gadget

Published on 8 Mar 2008 at 8:40 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Biology, Birds, Coding, Gadgets, Inventions, Software.

I have just submitted my first Google Gadget.
It is called Bird of the Day, and it simply presents a photo of a new bird species each day. The photo is a public domain image from Wikipedia, and I link back to it so that you can get more information.
Here it is:
You can put it on […]

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