http://soup.juxi.net/ http://soup.juxi.net/ http://6.asset.soup.io/asset/0005/0374_3b93.jpeg 128 128 some random stuff I find interesting today .... {"tags":["IDSIA","Robotics"],"type":"video","source":"http://twitter.com/Juxi/statuses/157482045382197248","body":"Latest Video Hightlights from 2011, \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=%23IDSIA\" title=\"#IDSIA\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E#IDSIA\u003C/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Robotics\" title=\"#Robotics\" class=\"tweet-url hashtag\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003E#Robotics\u003C/a\u003E: \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn2uYaLL_3s\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\"\u003Ewww.youtube.com/...\u003C/a\u003E via @\u003Ca href=\"http://twitter.com/youtube\" class=\"tweet-url username\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003Eyoutube\u003C/a\u003E","embedcode_or_url":"http://twitter.com/Juxi/statuses/157482045382197248"} Latest Video Hightlights from 2011, <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23IDSIA" class="tweet-url hashtag" title="#IDSIA">#IDSIA</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Robotics" class="tweet-url hashtag" title="#Robotics">#Robotics</a>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn2uYaLL_3s&amp;feature=youtu.be">www.youtube.com/...</a> via @<a href="http://twitter.com/youtube" class="tweet-url username">youtube</a>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:20:20 GMThttp://soup.juxi.net/post/217966097/Latest-Video-Hightlights-from-2011-IDSIA-Roboticsurn:www-soup-io:1:217966097videoidsiarobotics {"tags":["Robotics"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html\"\u003EClever arm for iRobot Create\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/DCa8NeG3ypc\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;fs=1\u0026amp;rel=0\u0026amp;showinfo=0\u0026amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"364\" width=\"600\" /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMy friend \u003Ca href=\"http://robotics.cs.brown.edu/\"\u003EChad Jenkins\u003C/a\u003E turned me on to this very nifty and very functional robot arm for the iRobot Create. It's elegant in its simplicity, and would be a great weekend robotics project.\u003C/p\u003E\n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html\"\u003ERead more\u003C/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html\"\u003EPermalink\u003C/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html#comments\"\u003EComments\u003C/a\u003E | \n \n \n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/robotics/\"\u003ERead more articles in Robotics\u003C/a\u003E | \n \n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F01%2Fclever_arm_for_irobot_create.html\u0026amp;title=Clever%20arm%20for%20iRobot%20Create\u0026amp;bodytext=%20My%20friend%20Chad%20Jenkins%20turned%20me%20on%20to%20this%20very%20nifty%20and%20very%20functional%20robot%20arm%20for%20the%20iRobot%20Create.%20It%26apos%3Bs%20elegant%20in%20its%20simplicity%2C%20and%20would%20be%20a%20great%20weekend%20robotics%20project....\u0026amp;topic=tech_news\"\u003EDigg this!\u003C/a\u003E"} <p></p> <p>My friend <a href="http://robotics.cs.brown.edu/">Chad Jenkins</a> turned me on to this very nifty and very functional robot arm for the iRobot Create. It's elegant in its simplicity, and would be a great weekend robotics project.</p> <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html">Read more</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/clever_arm_for_irobot_create.html#comments">Comments</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/robotics/">Read more articles in Robotics</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F01%2Fclever_arm_for_irobot_create.html&amp;title=Clever%20arm%20for%20iRobot%20Create&amp;bodytext=%20My%20friend%20Chad%20Jenkins%20turned%20me%20on%20to%20this%20very%20nifty%20and%20very%20functional%20robot%20arm%20for%20the%20iRobot%20Create.%20It%26apos%3Bs%20elegant%20in%20its%20simplicity%2C%20and%20would%20be%20a%20great%20weekend%20robotics%20project....&amp;topic=tech_news">Digg this!</a>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMThttp://soup.juxi.net/post/43475490/Clever-arm-for-iRobot-Createurn:www-soup-io:1:43475490regularrobotics {"tags":["Robotics"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html\"\u003EOpen source swarmbots\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots/MicroRobot_Swarm.jpg\" height=\"432\" alt=\"MicroRobot_Swarm.jpg\" width=\"600\" /\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of my fave websites at the moment is Hizook, Travis Deyle's robot news portal. Here's a snippet from a piece he posted about the University of Stuttgart and University of Karlsruhe's open source swarm robot project:\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003EI'm a huge fan of so-called micro robots -- those with cm length scales, thus \u03bc m3. I've posted about numerous micro robots before, including the amazing Alice micro robot swarms from EPFL, and I am a long-time micro and nano autonomous sumo robot advocate (see RoboGames). Perhaps that is why I'm so excited about the SwarmRobot.org open hardware micro-robot swarm, developed by the University of Stuttgart and the University of Karlsruhe. All of the hardware and software is open (in the GPL sense), including parts lists, circuit board and chassis designs, and software. With a stated goal to produce sub-\u20ac100 robots, I'd really like to see this take off. Combined with a wireless power surface, a micro-robot in perpetual motion would make a great desk ornament! \u003C/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/11/08/open-hardware-micro-robot-swarm-project\"\u003EOpen Hardware Micro-Robot Swarm Project\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html\"\u003ERead more\u003C/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html\"\u003EPermalink\u003C/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html#comments\"\u003EComments\u003C/a\u003E | \n \n \n \n \n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/robotics/\"\u003ERead more articles in Robotics\u003C/a\u003E | \n \n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F11%2Fopen_source_swarmbots.html\u0026amp;title=Open%20source%20swarmbots\u0026amp;bodytext=%20One%20of%20my%20fave%20websites%20at%20the%20moment%20is%20Hizook%2C%20Travis%20Deyle%26apos%3Bs%20robot%20news%20portal.%20Here%26apos%3Bs%20a%20snippet%20from%20a%20piece%20he%20posted%20about%20the%20University%20of%20Stuttgart%20and%20University%20of%20Karlsruhe%26apos%3Bs%20open%20source%20swarm%20robot%20project%3A%20I%26apos%3Bm%20a...\u0026amp;topic=tech_news\"\u003EDigg this!\u003C/a\u003E"} <div><img src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots/MicroRobot_Swarm.jpg" height="432" alt="MicroRobot_Swarm.jpg" width="600" /></div> <p>One of my fave websites at the moment is Hizook, Travis Deyle's robot news portal. Here's a snippet from a piece he posted about the University of Stuttgart and University of Karlsruhe's open source swarm robot project:</p> <blockquote>I'm a huge fan of so-called micro robots -- those with cm length scales, thus μ m3. I've posted about numerous micro robots before, including the amazing Alice micro robot swarms from EPFL, and I am a long-time micro and nano autonomous sumo robot advocate (see RoboGames). Perhaps that is why I'm so excited about the SwarmRobot.org open hardware micro-robot swarm, developed by the University of Stuttgart and the University of Karlsruhe. All of the hardware and software is open (in the GPL sense), including parts lists, circuit board and chassis designs, and software. With a stated goal to produce sub-€100 robots, I'd really like to see this take off. Combined with a wireless power surface, a micro-robot in perpetual motion would make a great desk ornament! </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/11/08/open-hardware-micro-robot-swarm-project">Open Hardware Micro-Robot Swarm Project</a></p> <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html">Read more</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/open_source_swarmbots.html#comments">Comments</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/robotics/">Read more articles in Robotics</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F11%2Fopen_source_swarmbots.html&amp;title=Open%20source%20swarmbots&amp;bodytext=%20One%20of%20my%20fave%20websites%20at%20the%20moment%20is%20Hizook%2C%20Travis%20Deyle%26apos%3Bs%20robot%20news%20portal.%20Here%26apos%3Bs%20a%20snippet%20from%20a%20piece%20he%20posted%20about%20the%20University%20of%20Stuttgart%20and%20University%20of%20Karlsruhe%26apos%3Bs%20open%20source%20swarm%20robot%20project%3A%20I%26apos%3Bm%20a...&amp;topic=tech_news">Digg this!</a>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:30:00 GMThttp://soup.juxi.net/post/36311847/Open-source-swarmbotsurn:www-soup-io:1:36311847regularrobotics