Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Lego Robot Solves Rubik's Cubes Better Than You!

Remember that Lego Mindstorms NXT kit we bought a while back? The one that's been sitting half-built and not-programmed in our lab for over a year now? Well, Hans Andersson has been busy with it, and has built a robot that uses the motors and camera to solve Rubik's Cubes. The machine is pretty fast, and averages around 60 moves per solution. Even better, he has the instructions and source code up for download on his website, linked at the end of this article.


http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/87991-Lego-Robot-Solves-Rubiks-Cubes-Yes-Really

Friday, December 5, 2008

iPhone a TV gaming device?

Hidden SDK features transform iPhone into TV gaming device

This looks interesting, but I only skimmed the article.

Article Here

Thursday, December 4, 2008

.Tel

.Tel Is Just A Featureless Social Network That Costs $10/year

in reality it’s just another startup that paid a fee to ICANN for the right to sell you a web page that has all your personal information published on it.

Meh.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

World of Goo on Vimeo

Design Tour - World of Goo on Vimeo
Very cool design deconstruction of World of Goo.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Choose your own adventure on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8rJ1WML60Y


Help Chad, Matt and Rob travel through time and get to their twelve o'clock meeting!



This is a really cool use of Youtube, using some of the newly-added functionality to allow users to click to different videos when the option presents itself. Pretty funny, and very entertaining.