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Giggling Auto Factory Robots

Posted on March 13, 2007 by max

This is a great video of giggling auto factory robots!

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Self modeling robot

Posted on March 13, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkGaQqkyWII

Here’s a tight ass robot!

While simple yet robust behaviors can be achieved without a model at all, here we show how low-level sensation and actuation synergies can give rise to an internal predictive self-model, which in turn can be used to develop new behaviors. We demonstrate, both computationally and experimentally, how a legged robot automatically synthesizes a predictive model of its own topology (where and how its body parts are connected) th

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How to make your own 3D Stereogram!

Posted on March 12, 2007 by max

I am very bad with 3D Stereograms, but here’s a site I used to make the one shown above. I know what it says, but just can’t see it. Can you guess what it is?

Ok I’ll admit it this website has little technical value but in the course of another project it stumbled its way into my lap and is worth passing along. According to the numbers 85 – 90% of all people cannot view a sterogram which is what this website creates. I used to be in the group of people who could not seem to view it. Not wan

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John Chow dot com and making money blogging

Posted on March 12, 2007 by max

Okay, it seems like there’s a lot of people making money just blogging including this guy, John Chow.

Check out John Chow who made $7000 already in February. Actually some of his articles are very helpful such as the ReviewMe ad you see we put up today on the sidebar.

I like how he uses terms like affiliate whores and

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DIY HACK – Homemade Balancing Skateboard!

Posted on March 12, 2007 by max

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGbbag9dklU

Wow, check out this awesome homemade balancing skateboard. As a skateboarder myself, this is way too cool…

It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input other than the movement of your body mass. Leaning forwards and backwards controls the velocity and moving your weight from heal to toe controls the turn radius. It’s easy and very intuitive to ride.

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Test your website to see it’s sensored by great firewall of China!

Posted on March 11, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool site that can test your website to see if it’s available to people in China. Looks like zedomax is okay with China’s great firewall. Yipee!

I hear now people can get put into jail for using the internet too much, that sucks…

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DIY HACK – How to make a USB Charging Flashlight

Posted on March 11, 2007 by max

Here’s how to make a USB charging flashlight. But you can probably make this work for many other devices that run 5V including MP3 players, cellphones, whatever it is. Just don’t complain if you try to power something less than 5V and blow it up… 🙂

After reviewing the Forever Flashlight for The Gadget Panel I couldn’t help but take it

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Octopart is a search engine for electronic parts

Posted on March 11, 2007 by max

Check out this octopart search engine for electronic parts. It seems to searching mouser, digikey, and other major electronic part companies for stuff. The creator dropped out of school to make this so everyone please take a look! P.S. I couldn’t find any Make controllers, Cublocs, or any controllers that are not being sold through the major suppliers… (maybe they can add them…)

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