Year: 2009

FIRST Robotics competition announced

FIRST Robotics competition announced

FIRST Robotics competition announced… via /. “FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) has officially announced the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition. This competition, started by inventor Dean Kamen, encourages high-school students to design and build robots to compete with and against other FRC teams. The competition overview video is available from NASA. This […]

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Wikipedia over DNS

David Leadbeater created a service that distributes Wikipedia entries over DNS using TXT records. Simply looking up a TXT record for any subdomain of his service will pull a summary of the Wikipedia entry for the title of the same name. I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted […]

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BaR2D2 – mobile droid bartender

After a long day on Tatooine fighting off Sandpeople and haggling over the price of power converters, Obi-Wan and Luke Skywalker walk into a droid… BaR2D2 is a radio-controlled, mobile bar that features a motorized beer elevator, motorized ice/mixer drawer, six-bottle shot dispenser, and sound activated neon lighting. The robot is driveable so you can […]

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Saras Sock Vati

Every year, Jek‘s talented husband Jeff makes her a new sock monkey. In past years he’s done a Sock Monkey de Willendorf, a Buddha Monkey, and a Sock Monkey de Milo. This year he’s done the Saras Sock Vati, representing the Hindu goddess of the arts, Sarasvati.

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