want Arduino to wait for a special input ?

x=0
while (x==0) {
x=digitalRead(some pin)
}

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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How to import 3D design from Solidworks to Blender

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Render/Import/SolidWorks

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

Robotic arm kit

Latley I was looking for a robot kit to buy. Something that can give me some ideas about actual functional systems and solutions and at the same time something that can be the foundation of a later project. Most of the ktis were either too easy or not much fun, but now I have found something COOOOOOOOL :-D
I am going to buy the "OWI-007PC Robotic Arm Kit + IBM PC Interface" from OWIROBOTS.com. It is a cool robotic arm which can be assembled and later controlled by remote control. This arm can also connect to the computer and re-programmed as they calim :

It's usefulness as an education tool can be extended to explore other robotic technologies like speech recognition, speech control, automation and animatronics using our OWI-007 Robotic Arm Trainer accessories.

There is also another version called OWI-535 that looks even better ;-)



P.S. : Well we bought the robot arms and we had a party for junior robotic students at university of Oslo, institute for informatics :-) Here are the pictures : http://robotica.ifi.uio.no/wp/?p=207