artificial intelligence

This Week in Making: Studying Artificial Intelligence, Self-Driving Cars, and More

This Week in Making: Studying Artificial Intelligence, Self-Driving Cars, and More

By Jordan Ramée

Jordan Ramée

Jordan has spent much of his life writing about his many geeky pastimes. He's particularly passionate about indie game design and Japanese art, but loves interacting with creators from all walks of life.

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This week, makers saw a couple of companies make strides in the world of self-driving cars and Make: went into recovery post-Maker Faire.

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Nvidia’s New TX2 Board Does Dual 4K-Camera Object-Detection in Real Time

Nvidia’s New TX2 Board Does Dual 4K-Camera Object-Detection in Real Time

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is the Executive Editor of Make: magazine. He is also a TV host, starring in various engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, doing amateur woodworking, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza.

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Useful for makers and professionals alike, the new board lets you track objects like never before.

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Robotic pets: The bots_alive robot is attracted to the blue target, and blocked by the red obstacles.

Bots_alive Upgrades Your Average Robot into an Electronic Pet

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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Take a store bought hexbug and give it new intelligence.

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NVIDIA Jetson TX1

With New Board, Nvidia Makes It Easier to Build ‘Thinking Machines’

By Patrick Houston

Patrick Houston

Patrick Houston is a veteran technology editor and online publishing executive. He is a former editor-in-chief of CNET, and he led the team that launched Yahoo Tech. He is also a media entrepreneur who believes the Maker Movement is at the cutting edge of a new economic epoch that will thrive on inventors, startups, and the 'micro-enterprise.'

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The Jetson TX1 Developer Kit makes it more practical to develop super-smart bots and other ‘autonomous’ devices

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