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Draco18s
post Jun 14 2011, 03:06 PM
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Video does a better job of explaining than I do

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27d_1308001656

Very neat stuff.
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post Jun 14 2011, 03:21 PM
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Great, now even robots are going to beat me at basketball.
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post Jun 14 2011, 03:53 PM
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QUOTE (James McMurray @ Jun 14 2011, 10:21 AM) *
Great, now even robots are going to beat me at basketball.


And baseball, juggling, and tennis.
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post Jun 14 2011, 04:14 PM
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This is just about the coolest robot news I've seen in years.
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post Jun 14 2011, 07:50 PM
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I get a feeling i have seen that video some years ago.
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post Jun 14 2011, 07:54 PM
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QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Jun 14 2011, 02:50 PM) *
I get a feeling i have seen that video some years ago.


Digging around YouTube, yeah, it's about 2 years old.
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post Jun 14 2011, 09:28 PM
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QUOTE (Draco18s @ Jun 14 2011, 02:54 PM) *
Digging around YouTube, yeah, it's about 2 years old.


So wait, then this means that robots have been beating me at basketball for at least two years already? I knew it!!!
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post Jun 15 2011, 02:24 PM
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QUOTE (James McMurray @ Jun 14 2011, 10:28 PM) *
So wait, then this means that robots have been beating me at basketball for at least two years already? I knew it!!!


Basketball, no. Pingpong, maybe. Foosball, almost certainly.
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post Jun 15 2011, 03:42 PM
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*Sigh* I miss playing with robots...
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post Jun 15 2011, 04:02 PM
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QUOTE (CanRay @ Jun 15 2011, 10:42 AM) *
*Sigh* I miss playing with robots...


I miss having missed playing with robots. Meaning, I wish I had had the opportunity to.
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post Jun 15 2011, 06:18 PM
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QUOTE (CanRay @ Jun 15 2011, 08:42 AM) *
*Sigh* I miss playing with robots...


Your fantasies have no place here Canray... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jun 15 2011, 06:21 PM
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QUOTE (Tymeaus Jalynsfein @ Jun 15 2011, 01:18 PM) *
Your fantasies have no place here Canray... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

... Actually.

No, not going there.

In truth, I worked with a few industrial robots and their programming while I was in Junior High, and took quite a few courses that used the Lego Technic kits with a variety of different programmable "Read-Sometimes Memory" CPUs that were horrendously expensive while in High School.

Was good training for my later job as a Computer Bench and Field Tech when my boss was amazed that I grounded myself as frequently as I did. After a component got fried by someone else... Well, you get the picture.

Made one "Truck" that was the size of a lunchbox and was able to pull... Well, we stopped at twenty-five pounds.
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post Jun 15 2011, 06:23 PM
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Ah, nothing like the smell of ozone to get everybody in a lab freaked out. Especially if you're dealing with components that cost more than you make in a year. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jun 15 2011, 06:25 PM
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QUOTE (James McMurray @ Jun 15 2011, 01:23 PM) *
Ah, nothing like the smell of ozone to get everybody in a lab freaked out. Especially if you're dealing with components that cost more than you make in a year. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Luckily, it was a NIC. NBD, but I did get to say, "I told you so.". The boss was thinking of those bracelets that you hook into a electrical plug's ground, but we moved around too much for those to be practical.
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post Jun 15 2011, 06:29 PM
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My degree was CS, not CSEE, so I never went near the hardware. But we did have a guy fry one of the boards in an F-16 display's CPU. Needless to say, management wasn't happy.
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post Jun 15 2011, 06:36 PM
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QUOTE (James McMurray @ Jun 15 2011, 11:29 AM) *
My degree was CS, not CSEE, so I never went near the hardware. But we did have a guy fry one of the boards in an F-16 display's CPU. Needless to say, management wasn't happy.


Ouch... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jun 15 2011, 06:54 PM
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Aww, I feel left out. I never got to play with expensive hardware.
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post Jun 15 2011, 07:54 PM
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Now we know what a cyberarm customized for Agility and Reaction looks like. Very cool.
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