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Making Things Talk
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 2:20 am.
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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 […]
Five Questions for Dean Kamen
Published on 29 Mar 2008 at 12:15 pm.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Technology.
The current issue of the IEEE Spectrum Insider has a video interview with Dean Kamen founder of DEKA Research (and inventor of the segway, iBOT, and founder of the FIRST robotics competitions). He answers five questions on the future of robotics, the hype surrounding the segway, and education.
Watch Dean Kamen’s interview here.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Vapor Compression Distiller
Published on 21 Mar 2008 at 10:13 pm.
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Dean Kamen, an engineer was on The Colbert Report last night discussion his latest invention: the Vapor Compression Distiller. This device takes dirty or salinated water and produces clean fresh water. The distiller is produced by Dean Kamen’s engineering compand Deka Research, and they are aiming to distribute it world-wide to help solve ongoing and […]
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My First Google Gadget
Published on 8 Mar 2008 at 8:40 pm.
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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:
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Sarcos Exoskeletons to be used by Army
Published on 10 Jan 2008 at 4:11 am.
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Sarcos is a company that specializes in robotic systems. They have been working to develop exoskeletons that will give ordinary people super-human strength. The age of the super-hero and super-villian is upon us!
The video below shows their exoskeleton in action:
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