Robotics is as complex as a discipline gets, being equal parts creativity, engineering, mathematical talent, and a range of scientific knowledge that enables individuals or teams to create robots – artificial constructs designed to complete menial tasks. But what potential benefits can they have, and how difficult is it to pursue a career in robotics?

For starters, the advantages of using robots instead of human beings is quite clear, for two reasons. They are less likely to make mistakes when it comes to menial, repetitive tasks that go on for hours, and although this is slowly pushing menial labour in manufacturing out into the job market, it does have advantages, as jobs can be created elsewhere and we can begin to phase out manual labour that can be somewhat unsatisfying for many individuals.

Now, whether you’re a scientist or a partypoker.com pro, you’ll know that when it comes to exploring unknown territory, either terrestrial or otherwise, we’ve begun to rely on robots rather than human beings. Not only does this avoid putting anything living at risk, it also means we can push further and further than ever before. From minefields to Mars, it’s enabled us to explore and make safe areas that we could previously never experience without putting people at risk.

To get into robotics takes an incredible dedication to your craft, and a shedload of enthusiasm – but it can be done. Focusing on mathematics, physics, engineering, product design throughout your education, followed by specific study of robotics at, say, Carnegie Mellon, is an ideal route in – but it does take a lot of time and effort. This isn’t a Hollywood production – it requires years of studying and practical projects that aren’t quite as big or exciting as the robotics frontier, but the end rewards are incredible. So good luck, and who knows – we might even be featuring videos of your robot on the site, one day.

After viewing some cool robots on YouTube, I deiced to build my own. It didn’t became to great due to poor equipment, but I managed to design, build and program it. It uses 18 Power HD servos (cheap), Arduino Mega, 2S LiPo 1900mAh and a regulator for it.

The sad part about my work done here is it’s poor design. Luckily I didn’t use too much time constructing it.

Rube Goldberg Machine version

Unbelievable plane build and it`s movie

Sound technology, listen to nearby planes pretty cool idea

Snowplow

youtube speed

Photographing cotton

Miniature New York

Food landscape

Make it smaller and become bigger

Marion on Arduino

Laser scissors

Analog and Digital TV Signal Generation

Did you ever get a link like http://open.spotify.com/track/1QdXJ6TDYOT7sZyq7WCHhk, but were unable to open it easy? try following:

gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/command 'wine "C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe" /uri "%s"'
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/enabled true
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/need-terminal false


Third hand-in is out and I’m releasing my second one this late just in case my classmates should like my code, allot.

Decimal calculating (170) - 1.5 kB
Name surname (235) - 1.56 kB
Number digits (171) - 1.38 kB
Second degree polynom solver (181) - 2.02 kB

This term we started with programming at school. We recently had hand-in where I completed the programs which should be written in Java the first two hours.

The programs can be downloaded here:
addition (163) - 867 bytes
Circle Area (141) - 784 bytes
Cone Volume (155) - 843 bytes
Numbers (145) - 830 bytes
Variable convert (160) - 904 bytes
Vertical square (164) - 1.95 kB

Dave Powers has recently developed a system which saves your plane. It’s like a propsaver, but for the entire motor. Check out his test model and pictures at his site.

Today at school we had the international company Wärtsila visiting. They were visiting to tell about what kind of firm they are and visions they got. We also got an item:

There were two representatives, one adm-guy and a engineer. Wärsila is a company with a good reputation for making engines, large engines. They’ve recently started aiming at see vessels. The engineer “Christian” was one of three engineers creating an entire drilling-ship, which is pretty cool. Usualy there are like 300 engineers making a big ship like this one.

He had the responsibility everything concerning movement. Engines, thrusters, propels etc

Yesterday I made up my mind to use at least 10min on my blog each day. It’s been a rather dry period and I’m ending it now.

To day I went for the mail (physically) as I’m expecting a package from US. After me and my girlfriend moved together for ~14months ago, we decided (or I did at least) to add a “No thanks to unaddressed mail”-sticker, but today I found unaddressed mail from Peppes Pizza in my box. Not one letter, not two, but the magic number three. Three letters with just advertise. Pretty annoying, like all other spam. In Gmail usually I just mark it as spam, wish it was so simple.

I can safely add Peppes Pizza to my hate list. I’ll think twice before eating there next time.

This Saturday me and one of my buddies decided to go bathing on an island close to where I grow up, named “Terrøya”. He got is own boat and his family own a part of this island with a beauty full beach. Take a look:

The sea was hot enough for bathing and we swam against some mountains were we could jump, 5-7 meters above the sea! pretty high. Luckily, the sea wasn’t shallow.

On the trip back we ran into a couple of guy’s “inspecting” the bow thruster. It seemed odd as it was an civil boat so I took a picture.

We didn’t get a glint of what they were doing, but it felt fishy.

Looking forward to a new sunny day as it tend to rain allot on the cost.