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Light trail left by iRobot Roomba during its first 30 minutes of cleaning.
The wall on the right is illuminated by a LED on Roomba’s base, a place where the robot parks to charge its battery after finishing.
As there was almost no furniture in the room, Roomba did quite a nice job cleaning everything but tiny areas in corners that are simply unreachable to it.
Lighting is going from a window in an opposite wall. Basically, it’s just city glowing, no street lamps or any other light sources are nearby.
One more photo: flic.kr/p/ap13sB
This aerial photograph of Black Rock City was shot on the morning of Friday August 31st, 2018 during Burning Man 2018. The pilot of the aircraft was Purple Haze.
The Create Command Module's innards are very similar to an Arduino. If you already have an Arduino, you can easily hook it up to the Create and get the same effect.
Audi TT iRobot- My brother tipped me off after seeing a bunch of cool cars in downtown Vancouver. Turns out they were filming i-Robot. This ultra-custom is an Audi TT under all that bodywork.
The Jetsons had it made, and so do I. I've come to love this this little robot so much that I cant imagine life without it. It gently bumps its way around my house untill its clean, and if it get exhausted it just drives it self back to the charger for a nap and goes back to where it left off. This is Roomba. I am trading her in though, for Scouba, she will also wash my floor.
Light trail left by iRobot Roomba during its first 30 minutes of cleaning.
A blue circle in the centre of the room is a spot that Roomba found too dirty and did some extra cleaning there. It turns blue LED on when finds such areas and rides around.
Red lighting is coming from microwave’s clock! The room was completely dark, however the clock sent enough photons in half an hour to illumine the wall and furniture on the photo. Violet glow in the top-right corner is just imperfection of camera’s sensor and lens.
One more photo: flic.kr/p/ap3MDj
WEEE Man at the Eden Project.
"The RSA and Canon Europe commissioned the sculpture to raise awareness of how much electrical waste we get through in the UK...." Quote:
Cornwall, UK. April 2012. (c)Mike Brebner
I needed a new vacuum or a maid, decided to get both, such a cool tool and it doesn't talk back or complain about my mess:-)
store.irobot.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3881234
This as well as most of my images are free to download for personal use
Pink Dreads...submit...lol just playing with hot stuff...lol Seeing as this really IS a necessity these days, figuring out what works takes a bit of indulgence... ;D First time I've ever gotten all 40 in play at once...lol...;)))
Does it count as a car chase if your car is being chased by Robots?
I think if you are Will Smith in the 2004 movie 'I, Robot', you'd probably say 'Yes!'.
Another masterpiece of Audi product placement, the RSQ driven by a Will Smith in a futuristic world prefigured the launch of the Audi R8 road car by about 2 years. The two vehicles share much in their architectural and stylistic elements. The RSQ, as befits a vehicle of the near future, benefits from technologies such as hands-free driving (hand for a nap), wheels that allow the vehicle to drive other than directly ahead, voice-activated controls and robot-crunching abilities.
Robot crunching abilities?
Unfortunately, Will's near future features robots who have 'forgotten' Asimov's 3-laws of robotics, (i.e. don't hurt people) and are keen to hand out some pain to our action hero. Not that Will really likes robots that much anyway, having been saved by a robot after an automobile accident which chose him ahead of a young girl on the basis of the probability or survival (sounds logical to me - but who am I to say).
Surfice to say that the Audi is somewhat worse for wear after the encounter.
Anyway - back to the car. At this point intime (2004), the most advanced stylistic exercise for a road-going Audi was the first generation Audi TT. The TT was highly admired by the auto design community, and was the darling or urban-trendoids for a few days, but wasn't really in the league of a supercar. Secondly, Audi had started kicking some serious butt in LeMans sportscar racing, and wanted to capitalise on the success (you know, with like, real money). Thirdly, the Audi part of the VW-Audi group was in the midst of purchasing the Lamborghini supercar maker, and was looking for economies of scale for engineering and manufacturing.
The ultimate road-going expression of this exercise was launched as the Audi R8 (capitalising on the name of the LeMans racer), the style was very similar to Will's futuristic RSQ, and the bits underneath were substantially common to the Lamborghini Gallardo. All very clever - but you have to convince the man with the cash, and 'I, Robot' was the ideal tool to do so.
And if you find yourself being chased down by psychotic robots, you need to run and/or fight hard, those robots operate on logic, are very clever, can fight hard and won't stop - kind of like what Audi wants you to think about the 'Brand', though not the psychotic part.
So don't piss off psycho robots.
This lego digital model has been created for Flickr LUGNuts 61st build challenge, - 'The Great Chase' - celebrating vehicles from cinematic car chases and the like. The model features Lego piston vee-engine, four-wheel-drive and independent rear suspension.
Well, my "Man of The World" comes back out for another photo-shot, today. I know this isn't really meeting the theme but hopefully creep through ;-)
7 Days of Shooting Week #32 - Film Noir Minimal Sunday .....
...received this as a gift from a friend who bought it recently in China. The power adapter's been lost so it's dead, but it seems to take a 9 or 12V adapter so it shouldn't be hard to charge up.
A quick search revealed the following specs (I think these are for the device I actually have):
iRobot Google Android epad 3G Wifi 7 Inch TFT PC Tablet MID camera iReader book IPAD Style
Screen: 7" high-definition LED screen
CPU: Rockchips 2808、600MHZ basic frequency、600MHZ DSP decode
System: Andriod 1.5
Storage: 1GB
Memory: 128MB SDRAM
Resolutoin: 800*480
Touch Screen: point pure touch screen
Wireless Network: Wifi2.11 b/g wireless lan
Usb Port: USB slave 2.0
Tone: 3DPA、audio output port; MIC inside、3D earphone port calling
Card Port: T-flash card
Support 3G: function(WCDMA/EVPO optional----external connection USB)
PMP: Full-screen 720p high-definiton broadcasting
Game: Support all Android Editions` Games
Network Correspondence: MSN、Skype
Office Soft: Need the third party to support
language: chinese,english,russian,traditional chinese,german etc.
Size: 190mmX120mmX14mm
I can't wait to get into that Android app store. Srsly.
Just outside the Earth Sciences building at Stanford yesterday. An autonomous rover experiment rolling about (from the Aerospace Robotics Lab).
I was on my way to give a talk on disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship for the ETL series — the full video is now online.
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
...Ray brought this back from China. He paid fifty bucks for it.
When he showed it to me at the bar and said he probably wouldn't use it, I said I TOTALLY wanted to buy it. It died while we were looking at it, plus it was in Chinese. He said he had to figure out how to charge it and switch it to English first, but then he'd sell it to me. (The A/C adapter got lost somehow before he got it back to the States.)
Last night when I was studying at the bar, he just gave it to me, saying, "Merry Christmas. Maybe you can get it to work!"
I googled it. It needs a 9v/2a adapter but I don't have one. We tried a 12v/500mA adapater last night but it wouldn't boot up. At home, I tried the closest adapter I had, a 5.5v/2.5A adapter that goes with a USB hub, and the tablet will boot and run but it won't charge. It also runs a little weird, so to avoid doing any more possible hardware damage I'm gonna stop messing about with the wrong voltage. While I was playing with it, though, I got it switched to English and noted that it takes pretty good pictures. The wifi works fine. Overall, though, it seems a little slow, but I suppose that could be an artifact of using the wrong power supply.
Today I bought the correct adapter on eBay, and can't WAIT for it to get here.
In a week or ten days.
From China.
Apparently this tablet will only run for about 4 hours on battery anyway, but still. Squee!
Update: This device eventually blew up. I don't know if it was just a cheap battery, or if my plugging all kinds of inappropriate adapters into it had something to do with it.
Practicing product photography. This is the 5th Generation Roomba from iRobot.
Strobist info and Setup: Large bathroom window facing north, providing light coming through doorway into bedroom as back light. About 2 feet off of ground, I put a big black flag -- otherwise reflection on top of robot was going to be my bathroom wallpaper. Look in the circular plastic part and you can see what else I used: from left to right there was a large softbox, then the camera, then a big white card, and finally there was a strip box turned on it's side. I color balanced the strobes with 1/2 CT Blue gel. Strobes were White Lighting 1600 and 800.
The original photo I was trying to copy is here: store.irobot.com/home/index.jsp
The newest member of our family. He is an iRobot Roomba.
I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago and she mentioned that she had one. I was going to look into it, but I forgot. Then yesterday we were at Jessie's friend's house for a birthday party and they had one at their house. So I asked her friend's mom about it and she said it was awesome. Good enough for me. We went and picked one up at Costco today. Let me tell you....this thing is so badass. I'm completely amazed at how thorough it is. It picked up a lot of hair, crumbs, dust, etc. Works great on carpeting as well as hard floors. It goes under chairs and even our couches. And the coolest thing is that you can program the thing to clean whenever you want. When it's time, it cleans for an hour or so, and then when it's done, it returns to its base to charge up for the next time. I set ours to clean 3 times a week while we are at work. :) I would definitely recommend it. I think our Dyson's days are numbered. :)
So the story behind the name. First off...the girls were very excited about the Roomba. We had to plug it into the base to charge a few hours before using it. Jessie could not wait...she was dying to push the button it it and watch it go. When the time came and the Roomba started making it's way around, the girls would run away from it and pretend it was a shark. They kept saying that all of the little things (crumbs, pieces of lint, etc.) were the fishes and the shark was going to eat them up. So creative they are. Anyways, that prompted us to name him Bruce.
Jessie was so cute. I heard her go up to Jane and say, "It's like a pet. We don't need a dog." :D LOL