My xport has arrived. Tom Igoe was kind enough to give me a small board to work with my xport, I have ordered the parts from digikey and I am hoping to build and working this through spring break! Here is a source page called Lantronix Devices Archives from Tom Igoe’s site. Lots of code! […]

This is the class that I was going to take but dropped because of my health problems back in the time. I ordered my xport yesterday, I am excited :) Also I was on the floor today, playing with my arduino board and basically trying to make it work. In the end it wasn’t working […]

Following Josh’s great idea of collaborating for the end semester show at Tonic, I am keeping the sources that I have found which could be beneficial in terms of think-tank. I was reading Joseph Paradiso’s paper Electronic Music Interfaces, and he is pointing out good ideas approaching how to build a electronic musical interface.
I think […]

Max Mathews and Bill Verplank is teaching a nice class over Stanford for the last couple of years and I am aware of it now. The class is about building/experimenting new musical controllers, videos seem interesting, syllabus might be checked out periodically.
Joseph Paradiso (he is the director of the Responsive Environments Group)has paper dated 1998 […]

Idea
To explore how neural adaptation can create and change representations through interaction with the world.
So I started basically with building a bot which follows light to see and to experience its behaviours according to basic directions. Then I try to see this simulation on the computer which gave me the possibilities of multiplying […]

ok, my sweet bot is working now, I have made the corrections according to the feedback I got from James N. Sears(countless thanks to you James) and here is the feedback :
A few things to look at:
According to http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/2N/2N3904.pdf the pinout from closest to farthest in the picture on the web page is emitter - […]

The floor was opened from 12 to 6 today. I worked all day about the final and it was fruitful, I built the device and also I happened to get smooth results from photocells, tomorrow I am hoping to add motors to the circuit and get it working at least.
There are some problems […]

Whole neural nets theory is mostly applied to recognition systems. I have found some journals that could be helpful in the future. Plus the content is interesting and fresh. Here they are:
- Image and Vision Computing
- Pattern Recognition
And some random article fishing :)
-Object segmentation using maximum neural networks for the gesture recognition system
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I got the parts from Images SI url, I have two gear motors, 2 rubber wheels and one omnidirectional wheel as the front wheel.. I got the plate last week from canal street witht he u bracket and the rods so do I need anymore parts on a second thought… I guess I am […]

BEAM Robotics
BEAM is alternatively said to stand for: Building Evolution Anarchy Modularity Biotechnology Ethnology Analogy Morphology.
Most BEAM robots are unusually simple in design compared to traditional mobile robots, and trade off flexibility in purpose for robustness of performance.
BEAM style robots are coming from behavior-based robotics approach.
The school of behavior-based robots owes much to […]