Sorry, not that kind.
Trashpicts is mesmerizing (as read Rich’s dashlog day continues…).
Jun 192005
Fresh from Rich’s dashlog, the “Star Wars Character or Hip Hop Artist” quiz. [Rich apparently has blogging standards, causing him to direct small tidbits for which he has no meaningful commentary away from his blog. This post is evidence that, despite the help of del.icio.us, I apparently have no such standards. 🙂 ]
I’m sure it will come as little surprise to anyone reading this that I scored pretty poorly on the quiz — 9 out of 20 (it was suggested that a wookie could do better).
Jun 132005
woah: a lifelike android
The UltraSwarm project, from the University of Essex, sounds really neat:
British researchers are turning to Linux and embedded processors to build a fleet of tiny, robotic helicopters capable of swarming like angry bees and evaluating their surroundings with a single hive mind.
But wait, there’s more:
If all goes according to plan, the helicopters will communicate with one another over Bluetooth, allowing them to move as one entity, and even to carry out sophisticated computation-heavy tasks using distributed computing techniques.
“We’ll have a flock of helicopters; they will be autonomous individually and as a swarm, and they will be gathering and processing visual data in distributed way,” says Owen Holland, project director and deputy head of the university’s computer science department.
If anyone is looking for birthday ideas, an intelligent swarm of robotic helicoptors is always a nice gift…
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