Was at a Cafe and thought, screw it. I will code generic cup in OpenSCAD as a skill building exercice.
difference()
{
cylinder(20,7,10,0,$fn=200) ;
translate([0,0,2]) cylinder(20,7,10,0,$fn=200);
}
My first model in OpenSCAD
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3D-Printed Embedded Electronics Make this Drone Ready to Fly Straight out of the Printer
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have created a 3D-printed drone that is almost completely flight-ready straight out of the 3D printer by using printed embedded electronics.
IR thermometer hacked into a low-cost thermal camera
Leaked Video Reveals New Boston Dynamics Robot That Can Perform Amazing Stunts on Two Wheels
If this new leaked footage is any indication, it seems like the robot creators at Boston Dynamics finally found a way to improve on humanity’s primitive two-legged design: By adding a pair of wheels to their new self-balancing robot, giving the bot some impressive new capabilities.
Jump to 3:45 for the wheeled bot.
Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber – Deep learning neural network researcher
How do I not know this guy ?!
Since age 15 or so, the main goal of professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been to build a self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) smarter than himself, then retire.
[via idsia.ch ]
EU is looking into the need to give robots/AI person hood in the eye of the law…
MEPs have called for the adoption of comprehensive rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots.
The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a “new industrial” robot revolution.
It looks at whether to give robots legal status as “electronic persons”.
Designers should make sure any robots have a kill switch, which would allow functions to be shut down if necessary, the report recommends.
Meanwhile users should be able to use robots “without risk or fear of physical or psychological harm”, it states.
Lorna Brazell, a partner at law firm Osborne Clarke, was surprised by how far-reaching the rules were.
But questioned the need to give future robots legal status.
[via BBC]
The Three-Body Problem (Unabridged)
I finished listening to The Three-Body Problem (Unabridged) by Cixin Liu, narrated by Luke Daniels on my Audible app.
Try Audible and get it free: https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00P0277C2&source_code=AFAORWS04241590G4
90 hacker friendly boards
Our New Year’s guide to hacker-friendly single board computers turned up 90 boards, ranging from powerful media playing rigs to power-sipping IoT platforms.
Community backed, open spec single board computers running Linux and Android sit at the intersection between the commercial embedded market and the open source maker community. Hacker boards also play a key role in developing the Internet of Things devices that will increasingly dominate our technology economy in the coming years, from home automation devices to industrial equipment to drones.
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