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Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings
R3d M3rcury writes “The Lunar X-Prize is a contest offering million to the first private organization to land and maneuver a robotic rover on the moon. There is also a million bonus to anyone who can get a picture of a man-made object on the moon. But one archeologist believes that ‘The sites of early lunar landings are of unparalleled significance in the history of humanity, and extraordinary caution should be taken to protect them.’ He’s concerned that we may end up with rover tracks destroying historic artifacts, such as Neil Armstrong’s first bootprint, or that a mistake could send a rocket slamming into a landing site. He calls on the organizers to ban any contestant from landing within 100KM of a prior moon landing site. Now he seems to think this just means Apollo. What about the Luna and Surveyor landers? What about the Lunokhod rovers? Are they fair game?”
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From the Palm Pilot to the Palm Pre – The History of Palm
From the first Palm Pilot onward, Palm, Inc. has been up, down, and sideways. Bouncing around between U.S. Robotics, 3Com, Handspring, and other offshoots before finally coalescing into Palm, Inc. as it stands today.
Photos: DIY bringing robotics to the masses
At this weekend’s Maker Faire, do-it-yourself robots will be one of the biggest attractions. The hobby has grown into the mainstream.
Google’s "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software
superglaze writes “Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system. Anyone will be able to create a ‘wave,’ which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space. Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client.” Jamie points out this more informative link.
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Google’s "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software
superglaze writes “Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system. Anyone will be able to create a ‘wave,’ which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space. Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client.” Jamie points out this more informative link.
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Google’s "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software
superglaze writes “Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system. Anyone will be able to create a ‘wave,’ which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space. Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client.” Jamie points out this more informative link.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google’s "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software
superglaze writes “Google has unveiled a distributed, P2P-based collaboration and conversation platform called Wave. Developers are being invited to join an open source project that has been formed to create a Google Wave Federation Protocol, which will underlie the system. Anyone will be able to create a ‘wave,’ which is a type of hosted conversation, Google has said. Waves will essentially incorporate real-time dialogue, photos, videos, maps, documents and other information forms within a single, shared communications space. Developers can also work on embedding waves into websites, or creating multimedia robots and gadgets that can be incorporated within the Google Wave client.” Jamie points out this more informative link.
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Photos: Robots on campus
A look at some of the coolest and weirdest robotics projects to come out of universities’ R&D programs over the years.
13 Robots That Are Man’s Best Friend
Forget about the Terminator Salvation type of robots everyone is talking about right now, what about the kind of robots you can hang out with, the kind that might even…get you a beer?
Netbook-Run Dice Robot Can Rack Up 1.3 Million Rolls a Day
stevel writes “The owner of games site GamesByEmail.com created Dice-O-Matic, ‘a machine that can belch a continuous river of dice down a spiraling ramp, then elevate, photograph, process and upload almost a million and a half rolls to the server a day. … The Dice-O-Matic is 7 feet tall, 18 inches wide and 18 inches deep. It has an aluminum frame covered with Plexiglas panels. A 6×4 inch square Plexiglas tube runs vertically up the middle almost the entire height. Inside this tube a bucket elevator carries dice from a hopper at the bottom, past a camera, and tosses them onto a ramp at the top. The ramp spirals down between the tube and the outer walls. The camera and synchronizing disk are near the top, the computer, relay board, elevator motor and power supplies are at the bottom.’ While not called out in the article, the pictures clearly show a Dell Mini 9 running the show (and performing the optical recognition of the dice values.) No, it’s not running Linux.”
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