I believe that by 'disc cam in cage', they mean some sort of gyro device. By spinning a mass (within a cage for safety), you can rotate the robot the other direction.
It's not a gyro which can (AFAIR) only be used to control rotation about an axis but not movement.
Here is another article (also in german, but maybe it translates better). They're saying that movement is done by impulse by a constantly rotating camshaft that's mounted inside a cage. Whenever the robot hits a wall the cage moves w.r.t. to the camshaft (and the camshaft hits the cage I suspect).
What I could imagine is that the camshaft pushes the cage and thereby pushes the robot away from the wall it just hit.
In other words, when you buy a computer from Dell they will present your order to the FBI complete with your name and address (of course) asking what additional components they would like installed on your computer, probably using a web page similar to the one that lets you configure your computer.
Well then let's all order boxen with obscure hardware that don't yet have drivers for Linux and let the FBI do the driver development.;-)
As a sidenote, I've also noticed that floating point (on Linux and QNX, at least) seems to operate in big-endian, while other math ops are done little-endian.
Wouldn't that be due to the (industry standard) IEEE-mumble way of encoding floats and doubles? So it's not a big-endian vs. little-endian thing but a completely different encoding?
But for moving massy, yet light things around
quickly they might well prove to be big winners
Well apparently the people at
CargoLifter think differently. As was said in the original text they're planning on moving objects (bulky or not) of up to 160 tonnes weight, not exactly 'light'. They finished the hangar south of Berlin (quite a sight, 360m long, and over 100m high) recently and will soon start production...
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Today, if OpenGL doesn't quite rule the world yet, it's clearly the crown prince, and Direct3D has become the decrepit pus-ridden old emperor. John Carmack deserves a lot of credit for that, but he's far from the only one.
There was a short talk at the siggraph OpenGL/Linux BOF where someone said (don't remember his name) that OpenGL might actually loose the war for "preferred game API" within the next few month. The problem, as he stated is that changes for new extensions take way to long to pass the ARB.
Ok, Im german and there usually isnt much stuff on my desk. A bunch of papers and books that I'm currently using or what not but hey, that's me. Other people in my office have their desks loaded!
And yes, we do use e-mail. Maybe not when I need to talk to someone on the next desk. BTW the e-mail where I work isnt monitored - is your's? Maybe *that* should worry you.
Where I'm working we exclusively have open plan offices and I quite like them. Especially when it's got a lot of room on the desks. But since there are a lot of different people with different jobs (architects, graphics, software, etc) the noise level is usually quite high. I sort of got used to it and like being able to communicate easily but apparently it's driving other people insane. We'll probably move to a different offices soon with open, glass walled 2- to 4- people offices where there's more privacy (while still being communicative I hope). It'll be interesting although I'm going to miss the view...
Aaprt from that I just need a good coffee maker, a fast Internet line, and decent equipment (IRIX and linux do just fine for me).
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I believe that by 'disc cam in cage', they mean some sort of gyro device. By spinning a mass (within a cage for safety), you can rotate the robot the other direction.
It's not a gyro which can (AFAIR) only be used to control rotation about an axis but not movement.
Here is another article (also in german, but maybe it translates better). They're saying that movement is done by impulse by a constantly rotating camshaft that's mounted inside a cage. Whenever the robot hits a wall the cage moves w.r.t. to the camshaft (and the camshaft hits the cage I suspect).
What I could imagine is that the camshaft pushes the cage and thereby pushes the robot away from the wall it just hit.
In other words, when you buy a computer from Dell they will present your order to the FBI complete with your name and address (of course) asking what additional components they would like installed on your computer, probably using a web page similar to the one that lets you configure your computer.
;-)
Well then let's all order boxen with obscure hardware that don't yet have drivers for Linux and let the FBI do the driver development.
As a sidenote, I've also noticed that floating point (on Linux and QNX, at least) seems to operate in big-endian, while other math ops are done little-endian.
Wouldn't that be due to the (industry standard) IEEE-mumble way of encoding floats and doubles? So it's not a big-endian vs. little-endian thing but a completely different encoding?
But for moving massy, yet light things around quickly they might well prove to be big winners
Well apparently the people at CargoLifter think differently. As was said in the original text they're planning on moving objects (bulky or not) of up to 160 tonnes weight, not exactly 'light'. They finished the hangar south of Berlin (quite a sight, 360m long, and over 100m high) recently and will soon start production...
There was a short talk at the siggraph OpenGL/Linux BOF where someone said (don't remember his name) that OpenGL might actually loose the war for "preferred game API" within the next few month. The problem, as he stated is that changes for new extensions take way to long to pass the ARB.
Oh please stop being so stereo-typic!
Ok, Im german and there usually isnt much stuff on my desk. A bunch of papers and books that I'm currently using or what not but hey, that's me. Other people in my office have their desks loaded!
And yes, we do use e-mail. Maybe not when I need to talk to someone on the next desk. BTW the e-mail where I work isnt monitored - is your's? Maybe *that* should worry you.
Where I'm working we exclusively have open plan offices and I quite like them. Especially when it's got a lot of room on the desks. But since there are a lot of different people with different jobs (architects, graphics, software, etc) the noise level is usually quite high. I sort of got used to it and like being able to communicate easily but apparently it's driving other people insane. We'll probably move to a different offices soon with open, glass walled 2- to 4- people offices where there's more privacy (while still being communicative I hope). It'll be interesting although I'm going to miss the view...
Aaprt from that I just need a good coffee maker, a fast Internet line, and decent equipment (IRIX and linux do just fine for me).
-Uli