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by beambot 16y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but I'm genuinely interested... Is ~20+ sales per day considered good / high for a just-released iPad application?
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by beambot 16y ago
Indeed. And preserving text formatting has been effectively handled by TeX / LaTeX for decades...
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PR2 Robot Plays Pool. Robot App Store Looming?(willowgarage.com)
3 points by beambot 16y ago|0 comments
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by beambot 16y ago
Uhm, I'm pretty sure the command-line interface does not require Gnome or Nautilus...
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by beambot 16y ago
Exactly! My labmates and I (all PhD students in robotics) read through that _entire_ article up until that statement. We work like mad as paid engineering grad students, covered by grants and industrial partnerships. Because we serve a us
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by beambot 17y ago
Today Willow Garage announced that eleven (rather than the original ten anticipated) PR2 Beta robots, with a total value of over $4.4M, will be loaned out to academic and research institutions worldwide to develop a slew of impressive capab
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Willow Garage Selects Eleven Recipients of PR2 Beta Robots(hizook.com)
1 points by beambot 17y ago|1 comments
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by beambot 17y ago
Our really cool manipulating robot, named Cody, uses an RMP-50 Omni... http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/03/15/cody-new-humanoid-mobi...
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by beambot 17y ago
In one sentence it is an algorithm: "The development of the algorithm was performed at IBM Research - Zurich and was presented on Thursday at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference in Seattle. " In the next, it is "so
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by beambot 17y ago
Any idea about the relative efficiencies between this chemical reaction versus a thermodynamic process (say, Sterling Engine)?
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Willow Garage to Give Away 10 PR2 Robots(hizook.com)
2 points by beambot 17y ago|0 comments
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by beambot 17y ago
True, it is a "common" mistake. It is also amateurish. I run a few sites on MT. We pay the ~$20/mo hosting fees with the expectation of well-configured apache servers, fair customer support, and the ability to handle an occasional Slashdo
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by beambot 17y ago
Since you're already using Python, I'd highly recommend looking at Matplotlib (pylab). We've used it to great utility in the past.
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by beambot 17y ago
I understand that _consumer_ wireless power has not yet achieved its full potential. But those systems do not represent the entirety of wireless power... For example, RFID access cards (like those found in student IDs) use wireless power t
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by beambot 17y ago
If you're in the robotics space, you should seriously consider the Robot Operating System: http://www.ROS.org You'll find their publish-subscribe message passing is quite simplistic, and the support is great.
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by beambot 17y ago
It uses piezo actuators as the "legs", operating them at different phases to move in different directions. This was explained on the YC submission a few days ago: http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/29/i-swarm-micro-robots-r... http://ne
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by beambot 17y ago
Spend the extra year doing detailed searches for (and interviewing with) potential faculty advisors at top undergraduate institutions. Odds are, you'll land a great undergrad research opportunity that will pull you away from the monotony of
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Bezos Expeditions Part of $7M Round for Heartland Robotics(hizook.com)
1 points by beambot 17y ago|0 comments
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by beambot 17y ago
I'm glad to see any type of open hardware; however, there is nothing intrinsically new about this hardware device. Essentially it is a commercial CCD or CMOS imager hooked up to an embedded Linux machine (such as a Beagle Board). Something
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Micro-Robots developed in EU are the size of grain of rice.(hizook.com)
2 points by beambot 17y ago|0 comments
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Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense(hizook.com)
359 points by beambot 17y ago|159 comments