So, I'm curious... is it possible to install it on an external firewire drive that is only connected on occasion? I'd like to have the option of booting into Yellowdog but just don't have enough room on my Powerbook's internal drive.
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So is there a list somewhere that tells you what micros are used in which cars? Like which cars use 68332's, HC11's or MPC555's?
I completely agree. I've got no problem shelling out $50 or more for the new suite, as long as there is support for third party DVD burners. I've already purchased an external Lacie drive to do data backups on my Powerbook and the other computers around the lab. A Superdrive is not in the picture for me any time soon.
Have a look at their Engineering page. You'll see images of both Rugged RHex (featured on Slashdot earlier) as well as Sony's bipedal Qrio robot. Marc Raibert has assembled an impressive team of people to work on these very cool projects.
I second that recommendation. I used to be a firm believer in a combination of off-the-shelf PC for high-level functions and a low-level microcontroller for motor control, etc. PC104 combines the two, allowing you to pop on quadrature decoder, ADC/DACs, PCMCIA (for wireless cards or whatever), via either the ISA or PCI busses. The bonus is that there are also some great power modules that make it dead simple to power from batteries.
The mini-ITX are sweet, though, and there are some good battery power solutions for those, too. You will pay a small premium for the PC104 form factor, so mini-ITX might be a decent solution if you don't need as compact or reliable a system.
Or how about "Why Linux for real time control?" Can Linux, with whatever "real time" extensions, provide honest-to-goodness real-time control? In other words, can it guarantee that my program will have all the priority it needs to achieve 1ms loop time? This is critical for all sorts of real robotics work.
>>The tuition is about half (or less) of what it >>is in the states > >Err.... if you live in Canada long enough to establish >residency, sure...
Bull. Foreign students don't normally pay more than $8k-$10k per year in tuition (at McGill, at least, according to some friends that are paying that much). Although that's about three times as much as residents pay, it's not nearly as much as what you pay at some American schools.
You may be 2000% positive, but the assertion that no galloping robots had ever been made (until now, by MIT or anyone else) is backed up by Schmiedeler and Waldron's IJRR paper entitled "The Mechanics of Quadrupedal Galloping and the Future of Legged Vehicles". In it they state "To the best of the authors' knowledge, however, no artificial legged system has ever been operated in a true gallop. Raibert's (1986) quadruped used its legs in pairs, employing trot, pace and bound gaits." The MIT work that you are referring to is that done by Marc Raibert.
I just got the idea in my head that it would be very interesting to obtain data from a gamepad via an OS X terminal. Does anyone know where I could get started trying to figure out how to do this?
The flag that shows up is really annoying. I want to be able to switch between a regular US-type QWERTY keyboard and a French Canadian keyboard. Unforunately, as a Canadian, this means that I get a silly American flag on my desktop most of the time if I want a "normal" QWERTY keyboard. Is there any way to change the graphic so that I don't have to have a stars-and-stripes on my desktop?'
does anyone know if the 12" and 17" powerbooks have the same keyboard-touches-screen-when-closed problem that my 15" 800 Mhz (bought October 2002) has? This was a problem since at least the release of the first TiBooks, as far as I know.
My wife is looking at the 12" PowerBook or an iBook and I'd like to recommend one that she can close without worrying about putting a cloth over the keyboard.
Hmmm... not so sure about this. Yesterday, I discovered that Quicktime Pro exports to all sorts of different file formats, but MPEG1 doesn't seem to be included. It's a real bummer since my coworkers are demanding MPEG1 video instead of MPEG4-type Quicktime videos.
The Scorpion project is also being worked on by McGill University's Ambulatory Robotics lab (simulation videos of the six- and eight-legged versions are available there). I should know, since I've been working on improved leg designs to double Scorpion's forward velocity: see my webpage.
Ah, I finally reinstalled Linux on my home machine because my dial-up connection under Win2K started acting funny. How funny? Well, just about any webpage related to Sympatico (my ISP) no longer loads. That's right. Slashdot will load fine once I'm connected, but www.sympatico.ca (my ISP's homepage) does not. Reading Sympatico POP mail? Impossible.
Tech support's answer? Reinstall Netscape. Fine. That didn't work. Next answer? Remove and reinstall the TCP/IP module. Tried that. Twice.
My answer: install Libranet Debian Linux. It's a little prettier than stock Debian. Reading email and connecting to the ISP homepage via the same dialup number and modem is NO LONGER A PROBLEM.
So what was the problem? I have no idea. Windows 2000 choked on itself. Now we only reboot to Win2k for my fiancee to use Word, Excel and to book tickets on the Air Canada website.
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So, I'm curious... is it possible to install it on an external firewire drive that is only connected on occasion? I'd like to have the option of booting into Yellowdog but just don't have enough room on my Powerbook's internal drive.
So is there a list somewhere that tells you what micros are used in which cars? Like which cars use 68332's, HC11's or MPC555's?
I completely agree. I've got no problem shelling out $50 or more for the new suite, as long as there is support for third party DVD burners. I've already purchased an external Lacie drive to do data backups on my Powerbook and the other computers around the lab. A Superdrive is not in the picture for me any time soon.
Have a look at their Engineering page. You'll see images of both Rugged RHex (featured on Slashdot earlier) as well as Sony's bipedal Qrio robot. Marc Raibert has assembled an impressive team of people to work on these very cool projects.
I second that recommendation. I used to be a firm believer in a combination of off-the-shelf PC for high-level functions and a low-level microcontroller for motor control, etc. PC104 combines the two, allowing you to pop on quadrature decoder, ADC/DACs, PCMCIA (for wireless cards or whatever), via either the ISA or PCI busses. The bonus is that there are also some great power modules that make it dead simple to power from batteries.
The mini-ITX are sweet, though, and there are some good battery power solutions for those, too. You will pay a small premium for the PC104 form factor, so mini-ITX might be a decent solution if you don't need as compact or reliable a system.
Or how about "Why Linux for real time control?" Can Linux, with whatever "real time" extensions, provide honest-to-goodness real-time control? In other words, can it guarantee that my program will have all the priority it needs to achieve 1ms loop time? This is critical for all sorts of real robotics work.
Yup. Gotta admit that it's cute. My favourite spoof so far has got to be the Meatrix, though.
So what are some good alternatives to the SICKs?
With so many robotics stories lately (Japan's Proposed 30-Year Robot Program, Robots for Air Force Protection, Swimming Cockroach Robot Developed, etc.), it's time that Slashdot made up a new category as opposed to filing them under "Upgrades".
>>The tuition is about half (or less) of what it
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>Err.... if you live in Canada long enough to establish >residency, sure...
Bull. Foreign students don't normally pay more than $8k-$10k per year in tuition (at McGill, at least, according to some friends that are paying that much). Although that's about three times as much as residents pay, it's not nearly as much as what you pay at some American schools.
There was an earlier story on Slashdot about RHex, as part of the Aqua project. Videos are available on the ARL website at McGill.
You may be 2000% positive, but the assertion that no galloping robots had ever been made (until now, by MIT or anyone else) is backed up by Schmiedeler and Waldron's IJRR paper entitled "The Mechanics of Quadrupedal Galloping and the Future of Legged Vehicles". In it they state "To the best of the authors' knowledge, however, no artificial legged system has ever been operated in a true gallop. Raibert's (1986) quadruped used its legs in pairs, employing trot, pace and bound gaits." The MIT work that you are referring to is that done by Marc Raibert.
I've posted the smaller movie [14MB] on the .Mac servers: the cockroach robot movie.
Check out this video footage to see the gecko in action. (The video is about biomimetic robots, so it's got more than just the gecko research)
This work actually originates in Bob Full's Polypedal Lab at Berkeley. Check out this SF Chronicle article published in 2000 to find out a little more.
Hi,
I just got the idea in my head that it would be very interesting to obtain data from a gamepad via an OS X terminal. Does anyone know where I could get started trying to figure out how to do this?
The flag that shows up is really annoying. I want to be able to switch between a regular US-type QWERTY keyboard and a French Canadian keyboard. Unforunately, as a Canadian, this means that I get a silly American flag on my desktop most of the time if I want a "normal" QWERTY keyboard. Is there any way to change the graphic so that I don't have to have a stars-and-stripes on my desktop?'
Billy Bragg's "It's all about the price of oil" MP3... enough said.
Hey,
does anyone know if the 12" and 17" powerbooks have the same keyboard-touches-screen-when-closed problem that my 15" 800 Mhz (bought October 2002) has? This was a problem since at least the release of the first TiBooks, as far as I know.
My wife is looking at the 12" PowerBook or an iBook and I'd like to recommend one that she can close without worrying about putting a cloth over the keyboard.
Is there a solution to go the other way around? The MP3 player is a linux box but my libraries are on my Powerbook ...
Hmmm... not so sure about this. Yesterday, I discovered that Quicktime Pro exports to all sorts of different file formats, but MPEG1 doesn't seem to be included. It's a real bummer since my coworkers are demanding MPEG1 video instead of MPEG4-type Quicktime videos.
Nope, I've noticed the same thing. The mail app doesn't seem to find my other (IMAP) folders, either.
The Scorpion project is also being worked on by McGill University's Ambulatory Robotics lab (simulation videos of the six- and eight-legged versions are available there). I should know, since I've been working on improved leg designs to double Scorpion's forward velocity: see my webpage.
So, the project is also Canadian.
Does anyone know if the ODE solvers (ode23, etc) work with this version of Matlab?
Thanks!
Onnimikki
Ah, I finally reinstalled Linux on my home machine because my dial-up connection under Win2K started acting funny. How funny? Well, just about any webpage related to Sympatico (my ISP) no longer loads. That's right. Slashdot will load fine once I'm connected, but www.sympatico.ca (my ISP's homepage) does not. Reading Sympatico POP mail? Impossible.
Tech support's answer? Reinstall Netscape. Fine. That didn't work. Next answer? Remove and reinstall the TCP/IP module. Tried that. Twice.
My answer: install Libranet Debian Linux. It's a little prettier than stock Debian. Reading email and connecting to the ISP homepage via the same dialup number and modem is NO LONGER A PROBLEM.
So what was the problem? I have no idea. Windows 2000 choked on itself. Now we only reboot to Win2k for my fiancee to use Word, Excel and to book tickets on the Air Canada website.