Archive for April, 2010
Robot Wheelchair
I responded to a summer job offer to work at Panasonic Boston Laboratory doing robotics research. It turns out that an engineer there just wanted to see if he could find an intern to whip up a cool robotic wheelchair to help disabled people navigate their homes. He wanted it done over the course of [...]
Twice
Source: http://github.com/kvogt/twice I wrote this program because Ruby on Rails is hard to scale. Or at least it was. I don’t know if this is still the case. Regardless, Twice does some really cool things and does many of them faster than Rails, so it’s worth checking out. When my cofounder Emmett Shear and I sat [...]
Safe Cracking Robot
This isn’t one of those telephone spamming machines that call you during dinner time or while you’re sleeping. This is robotic safe cracking. Two curious MIT studentswith a mysterious safe and a bit of free time built a laptop-controlled robotic fixture that opened a “manipulation proof”, high security safe in just a few hours. My epic [...]