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Monthly Archives: November 2016

What I'm Reading

Amazon AI services

November 30, 2016 rhubarb

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/amazon-launches-amazon-ai-to-bring-its-machine-learning-smarts-to-developers/

Image recognition, text-to-speech, and speech recognition.

AI
What I'm Reading

Four Types of AI

November 30, 2016 rhubarb

http://robohub.org/understanding-the-four-types-of-ai-from-reactive-robots-to-self-aware-beings/

AI as it pertains to human-like abilities and thoughts.

AI
References / Links

HTML ismap of image

November 24, 2016 rhubarb

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/using_html_ismap.htm

Clickable image that sends coordinates to server (cgi-bin to process)

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What I'm Reading

Ballu the balloon

November 17, 2016 rhubarb

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/ballu-uclas-humanoid-blimp-robot

Calling it a blimp seems a bit rude… it’s not that fat. Also, don’t ask it to pick up anything.

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Electrical

Soldering Order

November 17, 2016 rhubarb

When soldering, the convention is to fit the resistors/diodes first followed by capacitors, transistors and ICs in that order.

electricalelectrical assemblysoldering
What I'm Reading

Self healing electronics

November 3, 2016 rhubarb

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/printable-electronics-that-self-heal-before-your-eyes

Too bad that shirt isn’t self healing…

electricalself healing materialswearable electronics
What I'm Reading

Warming up the robots

November 3, 2016 rhubarb

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robots-with-warm-skin-know-what-theyre-touching

Next thing you know, we’ll be giving these tin men hearts to distribute the heat from warm areas to the skin/sensors.

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Posts About My Projects, Space Robotics Challenge

Paperwork

November 2, 2016 rhubarb

The official paperwork has been handed out to the teams. We get to start coding once that paperwork has been submitted and approved. Translation: Ya gotta eat your veggies before you have any dessert. Time to get moving!

What I'm Reading

Atomic pen is bigger than it sounds

November 2, 2016 rhubarb

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/a-radioactive-pen-in-your-pocket-sure

Bonus Kubrick trivia

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