For those of you who haven't heard, I built a robot for my sister's wedding. The bot was flower child and ring bearer since she didn't know any small children to fill those roles.

...apparently one of the contributing writers at Gizmodo found out about it...

I'm not sure if I should be flattered or terrified by some of the comments.....

I'm back from the Roadster Road Trip. Yes it was nearly a week ago that I got back but the holidays clubbed me over the head the moment I got back ( Read more... )

Heh...it's been a while...

Since my last update, I've completed my master's degree, been unemployed, worked for free, and landed a job working on electric sports cars at Tesla MotorsTesla will be showing its Roadster Sport at an auto show in Detroit this January. Instead of shipping in a perfectly new and shiny car, Tesla employees are going to ( Read more... )

Stolen from afniel

* Don’t change your clothes.
* Don’t fix your hair
* Just take a picture.
* Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.)
* Include these instructions.

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We have an ICRA submission?

My adviser has been pushing us all summer to get StickyBot climbing something other than glass so that we can write a paper for the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). We've tried all sorts of things, new feet, new adhesives, even electrostatics but nothing was successful ( Read more... )

A while ago I bought a drawing tablet from chilayse I played around with it but didn’t do anything interesting with it until just recently. Last weekend I spent two days turning
this:
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Last night was the first session of a D&D 4th edition campaign Benjie (teammate on the Viking Duck project) is running. It’s pretty different from the other campaigns I’ve played in, and not just because of the new version. For one thing, it’s played in person with a battle grid and all the trimmings. Also, there was quite a bit of combat...In ( Read more... )

Every Friday we have a lab meeting where one of the grad students gives a presentation on their work. Last night, the guy scheduled to present today sent out this e-mail:

Hi all ( Read more... )

If you have any sense of humor whatsoever, you must watch:

http://www.drhorrible.com/

I went to the Gay Pride Parade in SF last weekend.

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