Not as creepy as it sounds ROACH is simply an acronym for RObotic Automation Control Hierarchy. “Here you can see the white camera, and conical lense hood of the IR pyroelectric sensor on the pan/tilt head. The pan (stepper)/tilt (servo) mechanism is partially obscured. You can see the main power batteries arranged in a triangular configuration. The SRAM backup power is supplied by 4×1.2VDC NiCd batteries located in the center
This interesting mirror by Daniel Rozin is quite neat. It would be fun to build one of these on a smaller scale using some cheap servos. I can’t imagine the cost of this large unit with over 700 motors! “Rozin’s Weave Mirror assembles 768 motorized and laminated C-shaped prints along the surface of a picture plane that texturally mimics a homespun basket. A seemingly organic smoky portrait comes in
Chris Anderson was lucky enough to visit the Google campus and took some arial pictures with a digital camera mounted to an RC plane. To enhance the picture taking capability of the rig he decided to make a gyro stabilized system to mount the camera onto. Video after the jump. “The secret ingredient is an off-the-shelf “heading hold” gyro made for a R/C helicopter. These can be found for as
This Waseda-Docomo Face Robot is made by Takanishi who will be featured at Wired Nextfest for this Biped Robot. Video after the jump. “During human communication, a human distinguishes the partnerÂfs individuals by the facial features such as the silhouette, the position and shape of each part, and gauges the mental state based on the facial expressions. Many researchers have developed the robots that can express their emotions using the
Next time you walk over to your coffee maker to turn it on jut imagine the time you could have saved if you had a Internet Enabled Coffee Machine. 🙂 “The goal of our implementation was to make the machine useable in both standalone and Internet connected modes. This means breaking into the push buttons and interfacing with the status LED. However the PCB within the machine floats at MAINS
I have seen a few POV globes before, but this one is the best yet! Looks like GNG Display had some time on their hands and decided to have some fun. “See the world in 3D and write your message on the world.It’s a POV display. It has 256 white smd led for drawing the world and 32 blue smd led for the message section.”
A cheap camera and a plastic bag of die is all that is needed to make this DIY Multi-touch display. “Erling Ellingsen made his own homebrew multi-touch interface from a plastic bag, blue dye, and an iSight camera. It’s called the dyeSight.” Via: Boing Boing
