Dr. Jason W. Ellis' Blog on Science Fiction, Research, Pedagogy, Computers, and LEGO
I am posting this as an example of multimodal Recovered Writing. When I was an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, I went to two presentations made by Honda and its semi-autonomous robot Asimo in 2004. If you’ve been reading my blog, you know that I am interested in robots. I own a Robie Sr. and I …
Continue reading “Honda Asimo Robot Presentation That I Recorded on Sept 25, 2004 at Georgia Tech”
As you can see in the picture above, I finally received my assortment of gears and rods from ebay seller specialty_bricks. Through no fault of his own, it looked like I wasn’t going to receive my gears at all. The seller shipped the gears in a nice polybag envelope with First Class Parcel and Delivery …
Continue reading “Differential Gears for Lego Robot Fred Arrived!”
I have been interested in Lego’s Mindstorms robotics systems: RCX, NXT, and NXT 2.0, but I have been wary of investing the $200-300 in the base system without knowing if I could build a robot that would be interesting to me. Brick sorters, Rubix cube solvers, printers, etc. are interesting, but I would like to …
Continue reading “Lego Power Functions and Building a Remote Controlled Robot”
Perhaps you could use two new droids? We’re doing some spring cleaning, so we’re listing stuff on eBay including WALL-E and EVE from the Disney/Pixar film.WALL-E U-Command is a fully interactive and controllable robot that sings, dances, and follows your combo stringed commands. Interaction EVE is an interactive robot that you move around, but she …
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