David just connected a wii-remote to one of the darwins and is using the gyro info from the remote to adjust the hip pitch and roll to keep the robot from falling on the astroturf! Basically doing LFD. The plan is to create a function that will appropriately set the hip pitch/roll based off of… Continue reading Gamification of Gate Creation 🙂
Author: drew
gait creation for humanoid robots.
EMG for robot gait creation.
french toast
Challah bread for french toast. Should try and get some.
N-Puzzle thoughts
Some n-puzzle ideas: Create an n-dimensional n-puzzle. This is different from a rubiks cube because it is a sliding puzzle not a sequential move puzzle. It is sort of like the last puzzle here called the Inside out puzzle by Vadász Kocka, it is of course only 3D not nD. Figure out how to reduce nD n-puzzle… Continue reading N-Puzzle thoughts
First Authentic Chinese in America food
So, I had a ton of new food today! David and I went to a Chinese restaurant with Ermo and his wife. We ate off of the special “Chinese menu” and had tea and everything. The food came on dishes which we all shared. The style was from a province that prepares the food hot… Continue reading First Authentic Chinese in America food
Vagrant
Might want to checkout Vagrant (a tool that lets you define, and re-use system environments). https://www.vagrantup.com/ Especially for the robots…
Exercise and eat healthy
Well I was working out every-other-day and really eating healthy for about two weeks. As a result I had a lot of energy and felt good, other than the muscle soreness. This past week I couldn’t go to the gym at all and I started eating pretty bad. By the end of the week (today)… Continue reading Exercise and eat healthy
Leaf by Niggle
Wow. That is a good short story. Really makes you think. In twenty pages Tolkien is able to cram soo much meaning. Definitely worth re-reading. It is amazing that Tolkien was able to move from publishing such massive work as the hobbit to publishing such a small work as Leaf by Niggle. I think it shows his mastery as… Continue reading Leaf by Niggle
Autonomous Smart Faucets
So, i want to make a device that will turn on and off the bathroom sink for me… Basically I’m too lazy to turn off the sink while i’m brushing my teeth. So, I want to connect a RP to a Kinect/leapmotion to a couple motors that can move the knobs. Then it would be… Continue reading Autonomous Smart Faucets
Price Surging and Bounty Hunting
So, it seems like uber might have a bounty type pricing model. They have this system of price surging. This we also found doesn’t work for adjusting the bounty. I thought that maybe it would provide a method to get agents to go after the right tasks, it doesn’t. However, it does give me hope that… Continue reading Price Surging and Bounty Hunting