http://robotsystematic.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:01:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is just a great collection of photo's of objects which remind people of robots. There's some very good ones in there! :)  Flickr: The Looks Like A Robot Pool http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/18/flickr-the-looks-like-a-robot-pool/ I recently received a brand new iMac at the office to do my work on from now on. My bosses were sick and tired of all the problems the windows machines were causing and we are slowly replacing each machine with an iMac. At first I didn't really like it ... http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/17/yahoo-widget-engine/ It seems Toshiba just can't get enough of making robots. Now they have developed a universal remote buddy, which is pretty much a robot. He picks up on IR signals from remote controls and learns them. By asking you what you were doing when you used the remote he adapts ... http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/apripoko-robot-cuteness/ A friend of a friend who has always been an electronics freak has his own website now. You can see some of his gadgets he's built and noise generators. Click the image to go to his site http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/mr-machine/ Oh boy, what to say about this article. I don't know whether to find this guy extremely sad or respect him for his choices and balls to come out in public and tell people about them. I don't know how intelligent this robot's programming is, but there's a few ... http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/story-of-a-technosexual/ http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/20/the-tf2-heavy-gets-some-loving-he-thinks/ These are two of the cutest little robots I've seen.. Pure silver and handmade and they cost about €180,- Click the images to see more of that robot :) http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/20/silver-robot-jewelry/ Check out this very nice little gallery of small "robots" made from common (metal) junk. This is seriously inspiring me to make my own little robotic creations which will help me take over the world! Example (click image for full gallery): http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/20/guyrobot-gallery/ http://i26.tinypic.com/27xe0l4.jpg http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/19/6/ Sixrevisions.com has just released a nice article about 10 very nice AJAX tools you can use to make your site all Web2.0-ish. Some of these tools you might already know, like GreyBox (or LightBox or whatever other Box you've used, not counting XBOX!) Most of them are media/image related so ... http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/19/10-ajax-effects-to-pimp-that-site/ Phoronix has posted a very nice article about the 2 open-source varieties of ATi drivers currently available. Check it out if your Linux machine is sporting an ATi card, especially if it's a X1000, X2000 or X3000 series since they wil benefit the most from these drivers. Read article http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/19/radeon-vs-radeonhd-linux-drivers/ A youtube video: [youtube GRiJVMASwjI] http://robotsystematic.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/19/test-video/