Come on! This was a 4-minute video demonstrating a brand new technology and showing how it works. I'm pretty confident that it is capable of going faster than what you saw in the video. If not, then the next revision will be. If all you saw in the video was a blur, it would be meaningless.
As stated in TFA, the whole point is that this is a relatively inexpensive robot that can be programmed by people without advanced degrees, and safe enough to use by small shops in diverse environments. This allows US labor to compete with the ultra-low-cost foreign assembly lines.
Of course, Dr. Brooks doesn't know how many different ways it can be used. But if you look at it from the other side, imaging having a shop where you have a repetitive task that's too low for the lowest payed employee. Finally, there is a solution other than doesn't involve outsourcing.
I still remember some of the hacks. - Drill a hole in the cassette player above the head, so that you can insert a screwdriver and adjust for differences in tapes - Make a template, and use a paper punch on floppies to use both sides. "flippy drive" - Hard solder the modem connections, because the ribbon connector was always corroded - Add a dial switch to the back of the printer, so that you didn't have to guess at font size with a POT. - Using the cassette's on/off switch to generate telephone pulses for an "auto dial" - A capacitor and a latch relay to detect ring pulse and auto-answer the phone - Adding a speaker to the cassette's on/off switch for audio output. - Running the disassembler on the 4k ROM and the DOS, and then hand commenting every line of code. - Hacking the DOS keyboard handler, so that the shift key shortcuts typing of BASIC commands Those are good memories.
You must live in a warm and dry climate. 1: My roof has a foot of snow on it, and there is more coming down as we type. Hence the need to remove the snow. Ever heard of ice dams? I suppose the next post is going to suggest that the trap door opens inwards. 2: My aluminum roof rake is 30 ft and barely gets to the peak. The long pole barely supports its own weight. A pole twice that size would be impossible to maneuver and would break under its own weight, let alone with a broom or mop on the end. That is, if you could even see what you were doing.
The GP asked rhetorically about dangers with solar. I pointed out that mine are real, and I doubt I'm the only person in this kind of situation. I'm still a fan of solar energy. But anyone who thinks that there are no dangers related to panel maintenance or upkeep are sadly misinformed.
Perhaps you've heard of a long pole with a brush/mop on it...
In my case, that is not an option. My panels have to be as far north and as high as possible, in order to look over top of the south neighbor's trees. That means the rack of panels has to hang over top of my roof on the north side. That was my only choice and it is indeed a safety issue.
If you have a mop that can reach over my house, onto a rack of panels hanging 20 ft high, then I like to see it. Of course, If you live in a land without mature trees you will have an easier time.
Here http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/south-pole-on-bike.html is the opinion of a gal who is very familiar with cold weather endurance riding.
Snow riding has become very popular sport in Minnesota. Surly, Salsa, 9:zero:7, FatBack, Moots, and others all make bikes specifically for snow. None of them look like the one that Ms Skelton will be riding.
(my first post as a long-time lurker) Seeing the -1 score on the above post seems to prove his point. That's one of the reasons I turn off score thresholds.
No doubt I'll also be down modded into oblivion for pointing this out.
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Come on! This was a 4-minute video demonstrating a brand new technology and showing how it works. I'm pretty confident that it is capable of going faster than what you saw in the video. If not, then the next revision will be. If all you saw in the video was a blur, it would be meaningless.
As stated in TFA, the whole point is that this is a relatively inexpensive robot that can be programmed by people without advanced degrees, and safe enough to use by small shops in diverse environments. This allows US labor to compete with the ultra-low-cost foreign assembly lines.
Of course, Dr. Brooks doesn't know how many different ways it can be used. But if you look at it from the other side, imaging having a shop where you have a repetitive task that's too low for the lowest payed employee. Finally, there is a solution other than doesn't involve outsourcing.
I still remember some of the hacks.
- Drill a hole in the cassette player above the head, so that you can insert a screwdriver and adjust for differences in tapes
- Make a template, and use a paper punch on floppies to use both sides. "flippy drive"
- Hard solder the modem connections, because the ribbon connector was always corroded
- Add a dial switch to the back of the printer, so that you didn't have to guess at font size with a POT.
- Using the cassette's on/off switch to generate telephone pulses for an "auto dial"
- A capacitor and a latch relay to detect ring pulse and auto-answer the phone
- Adding a speaker to the cassette's on/off switch for audio output.
- Running the disassembler on the 4k ROM and the DOS, and then hand commenting every line of code.
- Hacking the DOS keyboard handler, so that the shift key shortcuts typing of BASIC commands
Those are good memories.
Even with an armed audience, the shooter might have survived this one.
"Holmes was wearing a bullet-proof vest and riot helmet and carrying a gas mask, rifle, and handgun, when he was apprehended, according to police. "
source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shooting-colorado-movie-theater-14-people-dead/story?id=16817842#.UAlanjtwZvx
Only if off-grid with a local battery bank. Inverters are required to shut down when grid power fails.
You must live in a warm and dry climate.
1: My roof has a foot of snow on it, and there is more coming down as we type. Hence the need to remove the snow. Ever heard of ice dams? I suppose the next post is going to suggest that the trap door opens inwards.
2: My aluminum roof rake is 30 ft and barely gets to the peak. The long pole barely supports its own weight. A pole twice that size would be impossible to maneuver and would break under its own weight, let alone with a broom or mop on the end. That is, if you could even see what you were doing.
The GP asked rhetorically about dangers with solar. I pointed out that mine are real, and I doubt I'm the only person in this kind of situation. I'm still a fan of solar energy. But anyone who thinks that there are no dangers related to panel maintenance or upkeep are sadly misinformed.
Perhaps you've heard of a long pole with a brush/mop on it...
In my case, that is not an option. My panels have to be as far north and as high as possible, in order to look over top of the south neighbor's trees. That means the rack of panels has to hang over top of my roof on the north side. That was my only choice and it is indeed a safety issue. If you have a mop that can reach over my house, onto a rack of panels hanging 20 ft high, then I like to see it. Of course, If you live in a land without mature trees you will have an easier time.
Tell me again what the safety issues are in the 'operation' of solar panels?
For me, it has been climbing onto a slippery steel roof to brush snow off in the winter, and washing the dust and bird plops in the summer.
Here http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/south-pole-on-bike.html is the opinion of a gal who is very familiar with cold weather endurance riding. Snow riding has become very popular sport in Minnesota. Surly, Salsa, 9:zero:7, FatBack, Moots, and others all make bikes specifically for snow. None of them look like the one that Ms Skelton will be riding.
(my first post as a long-time lurker) Seeing the -1 score on the above post seems to prove his point. That's one of the reasons I turn off score thresholds. No doubt I'll also be down modded into oblivion for pointing this out.