Monthly Archives: February 2012
Vive Les Robots
Found this great little Danish company today – Vive Les Robots From their site: VIVE LES ROBOTS! is the only company in the World, who wants to make more people interested in robots, robotics and robot-related stuff from ancient times to modern times, based on a culture-historical approach. Visit their site here: Link: http://www.vivelesrobots-education.dk/english
Micro Robotic Bees, Assembled Like Origami
This article comes via Wired.com, and reports on the Monolithic Bee project at Harvard University, where they have found an ingenious way to construct small scales bio-mimetic robots. It doesn’t actually show them flying or swarming, but it’s damn fine work nonetheless. From Wired: Harvard University engineers have come up with a production technique inspired [...]
Quadrocopter Ball Juggling, ETH Zurich
Simply amazing. Quadrocopter Ball Juggling, ETH Zurich from vkontakte.ru/vegasart on Vimeo.
Mind Controlled Applications – NeuroSky Mindwave Headset
Just purchased a NeuroSky Mindwave Headset for the Prototype Committee cause. From the Myndplay website: Control Music, Movies, Videos and Games with your mind… The NeuroSky MindWave takes decades of expensive medical EEG technology and puts it into a bundled software package for under £100. It safely measures brainwave signals and monitors the attention and [...]
Raspberry Pi – $25 Linux Box
The Raspberry Pi isn’t quite in full production yet – first models have been auctioned off – but should be out soon. The idea? Make a DIY Linux box you can buy for peanuts and build on yourself. Aside from applications for hackers, artists and makers it could also provide computing access to the poorest [...]
ArduPilot Mega – Arduino Auto-Pilot Drone Board
This is pretty damn impressive. Al and I have been taking a look at this, and it’s definitely on the shopping list. I’m really impressed with the constant growth and modification of the Arduino platform. It really has opened up electronics to a whole new audience, and can only enable innovation and creativity in the [...]
Science decodes ‘internal voices’
Here is an article on the BBC News site about the advances in reading the brain. Whilst still a long way off from fully reverse engineering the human mind, massive leaps and bounds have been made in recent years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16811042 It also reminded me of the Open EEG project and the potential for Art projects [...]