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  • 10.27.09
    Mind-(control) over matter Uncategorized | (0)
    Do you look forward to humanity's bright future, where all people are equal, and world hunger and poverty has been eradicated? Yeah me to. One day my robot army will encircle the planet, bringing peace and prosperity to all peoples who follow my exact teachings as Supreme Elite Commander. Of course, the problem with robot armies is always control. And what better way to control an army of obedient super soldiers than with your VERY MIND! A person named Zibri has posted a description of how he connected Milton's Force Trainer direct brain-to-toy interface to his computer via a MAX3233 chip. The ...
  • 10.26.09
    Daily Digest is now off Uncategorized | (0)
    Hi guys, I am no longer posting the daily digest on this site. Funnily enough it's because I think it looks too robotic. :) Instead I will go the standard human route and post full posts again. My robot masters would he so ashamed of me, hehe.
  • 10.04.09
    Published Posts Uncategorized | (0)
    Hey guys :) I just published a couple of good posts that were stuck in purgatory somehow, sorry about the delay. I'll keep an eye out for any others and update the permissions so things should go straight to the front page from now on.
  • 10.04.09
    Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition Uncategorized | (0)
    http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9016 How many people in Sydney would be interested in taking part in an event such as this around the same time?
  • 10.04.09
    robot vision land Uncategorized | (0)
    After a few months of working for real money, I'm back (probably) to cooling my heels and puttering around with my metal friends. A recent job involved generating "face recognition" s/w. I.e. not just a matter of locating a human face inside an image (not a difficult task these days with stuff like opencv around), but trying to tell which of the 1000+ people it *could* be pick the one it most likely is. It turned out that task was not too difficult, either. There is a lot of information in the placment and size (all as detected by my simple s/w) ...
  • 10.03.09
    Do not mess with this man Uncategorized | (0)
    ...or he will rip you limb from limb. [youtube=BYFDcQhHeSY] I can't wait until I am old and can get my arms replaced with these babies. :)
  • 09.24.09
    Upgrade Complete. Uncategorized | (2)
    Upgrades complete! I thought I would celebrate the successful navigation of the hidden software reef of possible destructing with some long long long overdue robot news. First off. I am thinking of rewriting Ausrobotics from the ground up. Like the 6 Million Dollar Man, the new site will be stronger, faster and capable of leaping entire buildings in a single, er, leap. I am in the thinking stage at the moment, I have a lot of other stuff on running my new mobile development business (check us out!: http://boostedhuman.com). Secondly, here are some fresh links: New Solar and Fuel Cell powered UAVs stay in ...
  • 09.23.09
    Upgrades ahoy! Uncategorized | (0)
    Hi all, ausrobotics will be unavailable (and/or possibly broken) for a hopefully short amount of time while we upgrade some of the systems. Thank you for your patience! [Update] Everything went perfectly except the forum upgrade which seems to be stuck in some sort of loop! Obviously that is a bit of a major issue. :( I have lodged a support ticket with the Simple:Press Forum support and will update you once its been resolved.
  • 04.03.09
    Aibo who? Uncategorized | (0)
    Now we are talking! My RSS feed daemons have just notified me that Murray's Quadruped project has just taken its first steps! And good steps too all things considered. I'm sure the early AIBOs were exactly the same. I am totally impressed with this project as it uses a lot of custom parts and software. From the wireless controller board to the CAD designed chassis to the electronics its all custom built. Just goes to show that even though us Australians live in the geographical equivalent of Tatooine, we can still show em! (Or rather Murray can, my little droid still ...
  • 04.01.09
    Now with FAST!(tm) Uncategorized | (0)
    Hey guys! I am really happy to let you know that I have moved Ausrobotics off Dreamhost and on to Webfaction. Webfaction are awesome and if I could marry them I would (Or that robot model I saw the other day but don't let my fiance know. She already thinks I am weird after the whole vacuum cleaner debacle... haha I kid, I kid! :) ) Anyway, you should be noticing a definite speed up in the site starting from 5 mins ago. Before I did the transfer it was taking up to 30 seconds to load the site which is ...