Robotica Osloensis Semester start party, fall 2011

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Top 40 Arduino projects on the web

Very cool projects :
http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/

Robotics and a big market to feed ...

After reading this article(Let the robots do the house work for you) on a Norwegian newspaper I was thinking to write a comment about it. As computers got into every single home in last 30 years, the robots do have the "same potential" and even more. The computers made their ways to our homes because they were good in some tasks(at least in early years), while robots have the potential to enter every single aspect of our life and simply automate the process. That's why it is important that robot designers are smart enough to discover the needs out there in the market and design the simplest machinery that can do the job :-)

Music composing by artificial intelligence, why not ???

Do we need to be able to put our creativity(art) in mathematical model to make a robot that can write symphonies ??? I DON'T THINK SO !!! Let's review what we do when writing a symphony ? We go to art school and Listen to thousands of music symphonies and try and fail many times and at the end we come up with our own symphony. A robot is not necessarily an Iron man walking around and pressing buttons. A robot specified to write symphony can be a code(intelligent system), crawling over all possible music tones & symphonies(available in its database). The code can later use this huge cached database and make combinations of them which are ear-catching and run surveys on test subjects(human subjects or other codes that can detect if a song is tolerable by our ears or not) and find out which of them are best and which to dump(some kind of genetic algorithm type) ...

It sounds crazy but what I am talking about here is not sci-fiction. This is today ...

Food Printing, future cooks would not wear hats ...

I had always mentioned Food Printing in my discussions with my fellow robotic calssmates at university. I even mentioned this in our team essay in a course I took at university of Oslo(INF5780 - Open source, open collaboration and innovation), where we wrote an essay about Open Source 3D Printing technologies and RepRap was the focus. Today while surfing on Internet for different open source 3D printing technologies available, I suddenly came across another open source 3D printing platform called Fab@Home which some French students are trying to develop a materials platform for printing food on the Fab@Home. Read more about it here.

Vacum cleaning robot, a start for robots at our homes :-)

RepRap

I am currently writing a report about RepRap at a course I take at university of Oslo(IFI), called INF5078(Open source, open collaboration and innovation). I will post my report here later.

What is RepRap ?
Knock yourself out : http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page & maybe even join :-)

Smart idea :-) MakerLegoBot ...

I love the idea ... it is Lego, you can break the problem into small Lego parts which are easily detectable and measurable :-) It's just perfect to make a 3D maker out of the idea, which is of course done here :-)

Beer Robot, just something we miss :-D

http://standardmadness.com/gear/wife-rendered-obsolete-awesome-robot-now-fetches-beer-for-you

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a possible future robot ...

Today I heard from a friend how cheap it is to buy a Non-Contact IR Infrared Digital Thermometer Laser Point from ebay(Hong Kong of course). Suddenly something came to my mind that I can de-assemble one of these products and use it as one of the abilities of a robot that could be going around in hospitals & doing stuffs instead of people. One of these abilities could be measuring the body temperature of the patients without even touching them(waking them up). I have checked & the accuracy of these thermometer is around ± 2% which makes it acceptable(???), but of course now I am talking about a prototype. A final model should be using one of the most accurate thermometers in the market as long as it has responsibilities for people's life.
yet another useful link, but same accuracy : http://www.metrisinst.com/products/details?id=315