For those of you who didn’t catch our previous post about seam carving, it’s a smart image resizing algorithm, invented by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan. Where you would normally have to choose between cropping or squeezing/stretching an image to change its aspect ratio, the seam carving method will attempt to find horizontal […]
You probably remember Boston Dynamics’ BigDog, the four-legged robotic packmule, the video of which went viral last year. Here’s the latest BD creation, LittleDog. It’s astonishing, when a robot becomes this adept, ambulatory, how organic it seems, life-like. The robot: it plans. And there’s something uniquely unsettling about that. LittleDog Robot – [via] Link
Ethernet + Arduino = Ethduino – An ethernet enabled Arduino (ATMega168*) using Microchip’s ENC28J60 IC. It based on Procyon AVRLib. However, on the contrary of the library one of the main goals of the code is to free the µC as much as possible from processing by using built-in features from the PHY. Although this […]
Octopart has a multi-vendoe shopping cart for your parts now, check it out – While you’re searching for parts, add the ones you’d like to buy to your partlist. When you’re done, click the buy button to start choosing distributors you want to purchase the parts from. After you’ve made all your choices, you can […]
This all in one camera remote is now an Arduino project, nice! – One of my other hobbies is photography, and, about a year ago, I purchased a new digicam – a Panasonic FZ30. I joined the Panasonic forum on the dpreview site. One of the posters, a programmer and electronic hobbyist, designed a nifty […]
Billing it as the world’s smallest humanoid robot, toymaker Tomy has released a video of the i-Sobot, showing off what it can do. Pretty impressive for something that will retail for US$299. Amazon already has it available for preorder. It will allegedly ship next month. i-SOBOT Rocks, Rolls, And Somersaults – Link i-SOBOT [Robots Rule!] […]
John sent in this Russin BBQ flip with the Macintosh Finder cut out, looks like a DIY’ed waterjet project …. Link.
