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A History of Robotics: Da Vinci's Mechanical Knight
1495Sketches from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebook were rediscovered in 1957 by Carlo Pedretti. These sketches showed detailed plans for a mechanical knight that the renaissance man had planned. The knight...
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ET3
"Space Travel on Earth"ET3 or Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies is a transport system being pioneered by Daryl Oster, Michael Jordet, and Nick Garzilli who estimate that a system can be up and...
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Use an IDE cable for Mounting Arduinos
Everybody has plenty of extra IDE cables just laying around, if not have five of mine. Now its time to put them to good use for mounting some of those smaller Arduino boards that have pins on the...
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A History of Robotics: Myth and Legend
The ideas behind creating robots are hardly modern in origin. The idea of creating artificial people is rooted deep inside ancient mythology and folklore.Within the pages of the Iliad are stories of...
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A History of Robotics: Yan Shi the Artificer
1023 BCThe Lie Zi text is an ancient philosophical volume of stories which is believed by Chinese and Western scholars to have been composed sometime in the 4th century BC. The text contains numerous...
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A History of Robotics: Tea Serving Karakuri
1800 to 1900The Karakuri ningyo are automata made in Japan between the 17th and the 19th century. The word karakuri translates from Japanese to "mechanisms" or "trick" and ningyo meaning person and...
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Bought Pi with Bitcoin
I have made my first purchase with Bitcoin. I am now the proud owner of Raspberry Pi which I bought from Adafruit. I didn't know about this until I went to Adafriut's checkout page where I saw the...
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Robotic Hands with Hot Glue
This was a great project posted by Mohamed Hazem on how to create a robotic hand out of hot glue. I his video he refers to hot glue as wax but its basically the same thing. The hands he shows how to...
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A History of Robotics: Hero of Alexandria
60 ADHero of Alexandria was an innovator in the field of automata but that's not all. It is highly likely that Hero was the inventor of the first programmable robot. The robot had three wheels and...
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Simple yet powerful audio amplifier
Introducing Simple Amp!This simple yet powerful audio amplifier is an ideal DIY electronics project. Using a minimum of four parts you can build an amplifier that will put commercial sound systems to...
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A History of Robotics: Analytical Engine
1820The explosion of automation during the 1820's led to the rapid growth of the weaving industry. From this wave of innovation also came inspiration for the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage...
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A History of Robotics: Iron Eagle
1533Johannes Muller von Konigsberg was a German mathematician, astronomer, author, and inventor who also went frequently by a Latin pseudonym when he published his works, calling himself Regiomontanus....
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Extraordinary Humanoid Robots
These are a few of my favorite robots (ones other than Salvius).ECCERobot - Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered RobotFollow Gunther Cox's board ECCERobot on Pinterest.The robot's creators...
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Advances in Computer Vision
University of Bonn, Deep LearningUniversity of Bonn in Germany has published a fantastic amount of research into what they are calling "deep learning". Deep learning deals with computer vision and...
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Security with Humanoid Robots
The issue of security has become a hot topic when looking at the future of robotics. The present concern is that robots who could learn to interact with humans would inevitably need to store data about...
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Salvius's Brain
Salvius's brain is a network of microprocessors which receive and carry out various functions based on input from the robot's API. In other words, what follows will be some insight into the logic...
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USB Pinouts
Additional note: As of Battery Charging Specification 1.2 which was released in December of 2010, USB ports can provide current to charging devices drawing 1.5 A with a maximum current of 5 A.
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JPG vs BMP vs PNG vs GIF
This was a quick experiment I did to check the efficiency of a few image formats. For this experiment I base64 encoded a 1 pixel image file of each of the following image file formats: .jpg, .bmp,...
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Arc reactor installation complete
The photo above shows the robot's arc reactor which, as of April 1st, 2014 has been fully installed. This upgrade will provide enough electrical output to fuel the robot's tremendous power...
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Redesigned rotary movement for shoulder
I've moved the motor that rotates the robot's arm inside of the chest cavity to save space. The previous arm configuration was based off of one of my first tests for mounting the robot's arms which...
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