Without RvB, I wouldn't be able to tell Shisno jokes!
a) Knock Knock!
b) Who's there?
a) You are!
b) You are who?
a) You are a dirty dirty shisno!
all) HAHAHAHAHAHA
The Vex robotics kit (from IFI, the folks behind First Robotics) is geared towards what you're talking about.
It can even be programmed visually, in "Easy-C". This lets people drag and drop into a visual editor, essentially making a flow chart. It displays the generated C code.
When you tire of that, you can program it in C using the MPLAB compiler (and possibly others).
I, too, would recommend First Robotics (www.usfirst.org) as well as the Best robotics competition, which has a lower cost of entry, but no programming to my knowledge. http://www.bestinc.org/
If you want to run the games on your own xbox, you need the "Creators Club" subscription...which costs $100/year.
So it's not quite free. And you can't distribute the games to others....unless you distribute the source and they are also members of the creator's club.
The price per gallon of gasoline in the US is mostly tax. So if this technology did become useful,
then we'd all start having to pay road taxes on our electricity bills...yay.
In other words, a direct cost comparison of untaxed electricty versus heavily taxed gasoline makes
the electricity look much better than it actually is.
Others have said the same thing, but I'll rehash and add a bit more detail.
1) If you're in high school (US), try to see if your school has a First or Best team. If they don't, find one close by and talk to them. You might be able to start one 1b) If you're not in high school, find a local school that has a First or Best team, and offer to mentor. You can learn a lot
2) Join a local hobby robot club. I'm co-vice president of the atlanta hobby robot club (www.botlanta.org).
3) Build something! Get a kit...Vex, Boebot, Mindstorm, etc.
4) Combat robotics is an almost entirely different field from the rest of hobby robotics, but it can still be fun. (I'm talking here of the radio controlled combat robots, not autonomous sumos)
Okay, so go build yourself a sumo bot! And remember, a robotic arm is NOT simple....:) Start with something easier, like an RC car, then add some sensors and make it able to drive itself around. Maybe work your way UP to a robotic arm...
> If this were to extend to the general population of the student body not receiving a free education in exchange then that's when I will think > they've gone too far.
But that implies that athletes get an education.....
X-Cad is pretty decent CAD software, and you can get a free version at www.x-cad.net
I've heard GNU Octave is good as a matlab replacement as well.
--buddy
Real Genius is the movie you're looking for, starring Val Kilmer.
I love the promotional poster of Val Kilmer wearing an Einstein shirt, and Einstein wearing a Val Kilmer shirt....
(God) Kent, have you been touching yourself?
Kent: yes....I mean NO!
From Dr Biritz, physics professor at Georgia Tech, as to why he doesn't offer "partial credit": "I have a car, that was built by engineers, who passed on partial credit"
This guy seems to be whining "but engineering is HARD. We should make it easy so more people will like it". No thank you. If we made engineering as easy as he'd like it, who'd get my fries at McDs?
Book publishers are getting more and more shadey. They don't want you to be able to buy and sell used books.
I've even heard that lately their putting CDs in the back of the books, and if you buy the book, then drop the class, the bookstores will not accept your return because the CD case has been opened.
They're also selling books with keys that can be used for X months of access to a course website, such that the book is useless for someone taking the class the next semester.
Personally I think both things should be illegal. My personal advice to you students: buy your books online, and get the ones intended for distribution in asia. They're cheaper, paperback (ie, light weight), and the exact same thing you'd get if you bought the more expensive american hardcover version.
What do you get when you cross a cat and a dog?
cat dog sin theta
Why do mountain climbers never get sick? Because you can't cross a scalar[sic] with a vector
I'd recommend a few things for learning embedded....
1) www.embedded.com - look around:)
2) www.gansslegroup.com - This guy rocks
3) www.circuitcellar.com - subscribe, read, apply for contests:)
4) buy a book.... you might want to look around for info on the 8 bitters that are popular these days, either the Microchip PIC or the Atmel AVR seem to be popular for hobbyists.
You can get development kits for either one for less than $50 or so.
Might be worth your while to take a college course on embedded if you're in school and can find one.
(I recommend John Peatman's class and book at georgia tech.... his book can be found at www.picbook.com)
--buddy
I enter circuit cellar contests whenever I can. The development kits alone are worth the cost of a one year subscription (Linky!
*looks at the 60Mhz ARM board and tries to come up with a project idea*
--buddy
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
be careful! If you translate this you may end up dead.....
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Without RvB, I wouldn't be able to tell Shisno jokes! a) Knock Knock! b) Who's there? a) You are! b) You are who? a) You are a dirty dirty shisno! all) HAHAHAHAHAHA
The Vex robotics kit (from IFI, the folks behind First Robotics) is geared towards what you're talking about.
It can even be programmed visually, in "Easy-C". This lets people drag and drop into a visual editor, essentially making a flow chart. It displays the generated C code.
When you tire of that, you can program it in C using the MPLAB compiler (and possibly others).
I, too, would recommend First Robotics (www.usfirst.org) as well as the Best robotics competition, which has a lower cost of entry, but no programming to my knowledge. http://www.bestinc.org/
ttyl,
--buddy
If you want to run the games on your own xbox, you need the "Creators Club" subscription...which costs $100/year.
So it's not quite free. And you can't distribute the games to others....unless you distribute the source and they are also members of the creator's club.
"And in this supposedly English-language college, the professors often used bad grammar and spoke in thick accents."
Hm...how is this any different from colleges in the US?
> The outlandish nature of your comments makes me suspect you work for the energy companies.
:)
Haha. That's funny. My wife does work for a power plant, but that's neither here nor there.
My main point was just that comparing electricity ("500 miles on $9 worth of electricity") to gas prices
directly isn't a valid comparison.
Some people just don't understand that good storytelling involves exaggeration.....
The price per gallon of gasoline in the US is mostly tax. So if this technology did become useful, then we'd all start having to pay road taxes on our electricity bills...yay. In other words, a direct cost comparison of untaxed electricty versus heavily taxed gasoline makes the electricity look much better than it actually is.
Others have said the same thing, but I'll rehash and add a bit more detail.
:) Start with something easier, like an RC car, then add some sensors and make it able to drive itself around. Maybe work your way UP to a robotic arm...
1) If you're in high school (US), try to see if your school has a First or Best team. If they don't, find one close by and talk to them. You might be able to start one
1b) If you're not in high school, find a local school that has a First or Best team, and offer to mentor. You can learn a lot
2) Join a local hobby robot club. I'm co-vice president of the atlanta hobby robot club (www.botlanta.org).
3) Build something! Get a kit...Vex, Boebot, Mindstorm, etc.
4) Combat robotics is an almost entirely different field from the rest of hobby robotics, but it can still be fun. (I'm talking here of the radio controlled combat robots, not autonomous sumos)
Okay, so go build yourself a sumo bot! And remember, a robotic arm is NOT simple....
ttyl,
--buddy
Why does NASA insist that the shuttle is the most complex machine humans have built?
The shuttles are decades old...surely someone somewhere has built some much more complex machines....
So, what's more complex than the shuttle?
> If this were to extend to the general population of the student body not receiving a free education in exchange then that's when I will think
> they've gone too far.
But that implies that athletes get an education.....
Do you complain about how complex C is because editing object files (.o) is hard?
sendmail.cf is a compiled file. If you configure sendmail with m4, the way it's supposed to be done, it's not that hard.
ttyl,
--buddy
From TFA:
> Nanotechnology, the emerging science of harnessing sub-microscopic organisms for everyday uses,
Um, last I checked nanotech had nothing to do with small "organisms".
You don't even need a chip. Soft modding the xbox is very easy, especially if you don't care about Xbox Live.
ttyl,
--buddy
X-Cad is pretty decent CAD software, and you can get a free version at www.x-cad.net I've heard GNU Octave is good as a matlab replacement as well. --buddy
Real Genius is the movie you're looking for, starring Val Kilmer. I love the promotional poster of Val Kilmer wearing an Einstein shirt, and Einstein wearing a Val Kilmer shirt.... (God) Kent, have you been touching yourself? Kent: yes....I mean NO!
Boxers or briefs?
From Dr Biritz, physics professor at Georgia Tech, as to why he doesn't offer "partial credit": "I have a car, that was built by engineers, who passed on partial credit"
This guy seems to be whining "but engineering is HARD. We should make it easy so more people will like it". No thank you. If we made engineering as easy as he'd like it, who'd get my fries at McDs?
Book publishers are getting more and more shadey. They don't want you to be able to buy and sell used books. I've even heard that lately their putting CDs in the back of the books, and if you buy the book, then drop the class, the bookstores will not accept your return because the CD case has been opened. They're also selling books with keys that can be used for X months of access to a course website, such that the book is useless for someone taking the class the next semester. Personally I think both things should be illegal. My personal advice to you students: buy your books online, and get the ones intended for distribution in asia. They're cheaper, paperback (ie, light weight), and the exact same thing you'd get if you bought the more expensive american hardcover version.
They completely forgot the popcorn popping (and tree/billboard destroying) laser from Real Genius! :)
Kent, have you been touching yourself?
Yes, I mean NO!
What do you get when you cross a cat and a dog? cat dog sin theta Why do mountain climbers never get sick? Because you can't cross a scalar[sic] with a vector
I'd recommend a few things for learning embedded.... 1) www.embedded.com - look around :)
2) www.gansslegroup.com - This guy rocks
3) www.circuitcellar.com - subscribe, read, apply for contests :)
4) buy a book.... you might want to look around for info on the 8 bitters that are popular these days, either the Microchip PIC or the Atmel AVR seem to be popular for hobbyists.
You can get development kits for either one for less than $50 or so.
Might be worth your while to take a college course on embedded if you're in school and can find one.
(I recommend John Peatman's class and book at georgia tech.... his book can be found at www.picbook.com)
--buddy
Actually they were giving away boards for the ARM contest. I got one myself. It's a Keil MCB2130 board. --buddy
I enter circuit cellar contests whenever I can. The development kits alone are worth the cost of a one year subscription (Linky! *looks at the 60Mhz ARM board and tries to come up with a project idea* --buddy
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput. be careful! If you translate this you may end up dead.....
I see your schwartz is as big as mine!
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