Robots at play
I just found this video on an IEEE email. It’s almost like 3D pong with two bots.
152 RGB LED array
Last night I finished my board!
Augmented Reality Building
This is a great idea, I can’t wait to see more art exhibits like this. PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE from 1024 on Vimeo.
ROS Open Source Robot
My grad school, George Washington University, just sent out a email saying they bought a Willow Garage PR2 for our school. These things look like they have a lot of potential and it looks like their is already a lot of international collaboration around this platform.
Quantitative Easing
I watched this video with my parents last night. Their voices sound like the Microsoft text to speech software program and are delivered in such a flat monotone, it makes the content even funnier.
Lawndale Trailhead Mushroom
There is a really cool mushroom growing out of a stump in the Lawndale Parking lot at Annadel State Park.
Mushrooms By Downed Tree on Lawndale
I was biking in Annadel yesterday and went down Lawndale from Ledson Marsh. Near the Lawndale trailhead there is a downed tree. Next to the downed tree is a living tree and he had these mushrooms on the base.
Ball Droppings
I saw this on reddit. I like the music aspect of it. http://balldroppings.com/js/?1
Ballons in Space!
My buddy Dave just posted this to Buzz. What an awesome weekend project. Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.
MySQL Distinct field with a count
If you play with databases, I’m sure you’ve run across this problem before. Let’s say you have a bunch of addresses and you want a list of all the cities in your database. Then let’s say you want a count of all the addresses in each city. This is trivial SQL but I always seem … [Read more…]