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Roomba + Wii remote + Perl = Awesome
Anonymous Wii Lov'n Coward writes "Check out the WiiRoomba, a mashup using a Wii remote, a perl script, and the Darwiin Remote software. While a little sluggish to respond, the Roomba is entirely controlled by the Wii remote accelerometers." All of the source code to do it yourself is available at the site linked, along with a youtube video of how it works.
Can Python do that?! Huh? Can it?
Good Will Hunting Part Deux
Ok, I'll finally bite.
I have watched Slashdot drop from a forum which somehow attracted the interest of science and engineering minded people to one of 'wii mashup WTF diggIT! 2.0' garbage. I'm sorry to see the current Slashdot trend of somehow trying to attract the lowest common denominator of online-people whom consider themselves 'nerds'. Sadly, the last few years of impressive growth of online users now dilutes actual technical people among more digg-type users.
Please note the featured artice is a prime example of the issue which I am complaining about. Technical people (engineers, scientists, electronics experts and tinkerers, robotics experts and tinkerers, computer people, etc.) used to find each other in the forums of Slashdot, but now I seem to find more than my fill of Wii, games (I have never even seen a wii or PS3 or similar if that tells you something about the environment I maintain for myself (btw. I am a scientist and an engineer and run IT for the research company I partly own as a hobby)) and other crap that is fairly mundane. Yes, I am calling a simple remote control electronics project mundane. Many Slashdotters have designed and built remote controls when they were kids and are not impressed with the article. So when you say the featured project is something others would have never think of doing, you largely speak for the 'WTF 2.0' generation of Slashdotters, not those that made it popular in the first place.
Personally I view the article as a project suitable for a senior-level high school electronics class. I would also argue the Slashdot crowd is becoming far too 'WTF 2.0' and the editors are following the trend. Sorry for the rant, after seeing the last few weeks of headlines I have finally decided that Slashdot has any edge it used to maintain.
I Hate Niggers
Niggers piss me off. They think that they can squeeze their foot in
the door of America's power scheme by taking over the entertainment
industry. They are succeeding and it's pissing me off. Did I mention
that I hate niggers? First they stole sports, now niggers are all over
music and movies.
Some nigger was sitting around one day and he thought, "We already own
basketball, but how can we dominate the music industry? We don't have
any musical talent, so let's just talk into a microphone and call it a
new genre."
Stupid niggers and their dumb rap music. It's not even music, it's
just a electronic drumbeat with a nigger talking on it. It seems
everyone listens to rap nowadays, even cowboys like that shit.
Slavery is the right idea. It is a step up in human evolution. With
free labor, whites could use their money and resources on
technological development, medical coverage for whites, and proper
education. Niggers made perfect slaves because they were animals who
had just enough intelligence to understand their job, yet were stupid
enough to not be quite considered human.
All of a sudden, bitchy black women sitting in the wrong part of the
bus and assholes like Martin Luther King caused blacks to slowly find
sympathy from Americans. Once the revolt was publicized, whites had no
choice but to hop on the bandwagon and begin feeling sorry for
niggers. It was a sad day when they were freed, and I'm glad I didn't
have to live through that kind of tragedy or I might have had to shoot
20 niggers in the face and stab a jew or two.
Niggers are easy to distinguish physically and characteristically.
1. Dark skin.
2. Primate-shaped skull.
3. Obsessed with jewelry.
4. Often murdering, stealing, and selling crack
If you see a Nigger, hesitate to kill him because he might be funny or
entertaining. Ask him to rap or tell jokes, and then when you get
bored, you can blow his brains out.
charlie thedrifter
Or is that a penance impossed upon you?
IANAL but write like a drunk one.