Archive for the ‘robots’ Category

Mythbusters Being Awesome Again

Friday, August 29th, 2008

I just ran across this:

Pure awesome.

They aren’t lying about GPU impressiveness either. One example I saw recently: apparently NVIDIA GPUs are kicking butt at Folding@Home.

I wish my graphics card was fancy enough for me to play with this GPU programming stuff. I’d really like to see how well I could pull off a voxel renderer. One day I’ll upgrade past AGPx4.

I want one

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Sea-killbot

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Looks like someone already did most of the design work for me.

Slap some big nasty jaws on that and we’re done!

Harbor Freight Mini Mill

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I got a new thing! Hooray for things!

Behold:

Mini Mill

And it looks good in my hat! Glee!

Now I just have to wait a few weeks until the tooling shows up.

The killbots aren’t far off…

Walking Robots - A weekly update

Monday, April 14th, 2008

So, I’ve been thinking about walking robots lately. I like ‘em. I like ‘em a lot. But before I continue with that, I’d like to direct any sysadmins that may be reading to this:The Case of the 500-mile Email
Definitely good for a chuckle.

Anyhoo(even MicroHoo?), on with the robots!
Here are a few videos of a few robots that I’m especially fond of.

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Weekly Update

Monday, April 7th, 2008

So I’ve been mucking about with Haskell all week. I still can’t get freeglut to work properly. I’ve got a post in the works about it, but I’d like a happy ending so I’m holding onto it until I get a working example.

Here’s another robot I found.

I approve.