I just came across a couple of very interesting videos on this article on BotJunkies. Both videos display pretty amazing navigation capabilities in robots, and the ability to recognize and avoid the obstacles, even moving ones. Most of the processing equipment for the HRP-2 robot are off board though, which is why I find ASIMO still a lot cooler. 😉
So in case there’s anybody out there who doesn’t already know, in the past week I’ve been busy knitting up a new online tool which I’m calling Verse. It’s a wiki / scrapbook / data collection tool, which in time me and fiends will hopefully fill up with interesting stuff. And if you’re interested in adding content, you can easily sign up and do so.
I’ve tinker with the code quite a bit, and there are tons of capabilities that may not be very obvious right now due to the fact that there’s not enough content to display everything, but I have added some information to the help page. Both HTML and wiki syntax are allowed in every page. If you’d like to know how a certain something is done, you can just check out the source code of the page that contains the element you’re looking for.
A really amazing poem by Dr. Ali Shariati. Sorry for not translating, would really kill the feeling. The main theme is around how a true human’s humanity causes them to take in a great deal of pain in this world..….
I also created a Verse page for Dr. Shariati here. It’s still empty-ish but well… working on it. Feel free to join add stuff….
خدایا کفر نمی‌گویم، پریشانم، چه می‌خواهی تو از جانم؟! مرا بی آنکه خود خواهم اسیر زندگی کردی. خداوندا! اگر روزی ز عرش خود به زیر آیی لباس فقر پوشی غرورت را برای تکه نانی به زیر پای نامردان بیاندازی و شب آهسته و خسته تهی دست و زبان بسته به سوی خانه باز آیی زمین و آسمان را کفر می‌گویی نمی‌گویی؟! خداوندا! اگر در روز گرما خیز تابستان تنت بر سایه‌ی دیوار بگشایی لبت بر کاسه‌ی مسی قیر اندود بگذاری و قدری آن طرف‌تر عمارت‌های مرمرین بینی و اعصابت برای سکه‌ای این‌سو و آن‌سو در روان باشد زمین و آسمان را کفر می‌گویی نمی‌گویی؟! خداوندا! اگر روزی بشر گردی ز حال بندگانت با خبر گردی پشیمان می‌شوی از قصه خلقت، از این بودن، از این بدعت. خداوندا تو مسئولی. خداوندا تو می‌دانی که انسان بودن و ماندن در این دنیا چه دشوار است، چه رنجی می‌کشد آنکس که انسان است و از احساس سرشار است
So on my quest to learn some more D, I tired a few different IDEs and so far I like Poseidon best. It’s very nice and comfy to use open source IDE written with DWT. The only thing about it that gave me some trouble to start with, was that even though I had introduced the correct path to DMD and DMC, I would still get an “Wrong DMD path” as soon as I tried to compile some code. After a bunch of playing around and trying different things, I did find the solution, but I can’t say that I actually understand the “why” of it. Basically all I had to do was to not include the “bin” folder in the path. And that was that, problems solved!
I also found this little debugger called Ddbg that works nicely with Poseidon. And out of pure curiosity, I also got me this ebook. Will start reading through it soon enough.
As I’m sure you all know by now, a mix of disappointment with first Last.fm and then to a smaller extent Blip.fm got me thinking about my own online music player… and that’s how Melange came to be. I’ve been using it to play some of my favorites from independent / creative commons / demoscene artists, and so have a number of my friends. And by the way, it’s accessible for guest via username “guest” and password “guest”. 😉 And what I totally dig about it is that my tracks do get scribbled to Last.fm through Ampache [the software for Melange].
So in the past few days I added some more music to the Melange collection, namely my entire SinQ playlist. It’s totally awesome music, and if you don’t know SinQ yet I suggest you check it out. =)
I saw this video yesterday for the first time and I’ve watched it a few times since then… it’s pretty fantastic. Both the interior and the exterior of it. Thanks to xo for posting it to my twine. Check it out!
Oh wow…. ok, it looks like this Still group never created anything less than perfect! 10 demos, and they’re all pretty amazing. The visuals are marvelous and the soundtracks are just lovely! =)
Hey, I'm Aasemoon, and this is my blog which has been around since 1998. Childhood toy project that ended up growing up with me.
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Zorbas is my kitten. You can see some pictures of him below. =)
