Mechanical labs at Hopkins, Berkeley

Hopkins:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/miniature-quadruped-robot-is-blazingly-fast


Berkeley:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/little-legged-robots-grow-wings-and-tails

Ronald Fearing's lab: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/

Lessons from computational origami

http://www.wimp.com/magicorigami/

Take your problems and turn them into problems that other people have solved.

Origami = graph theory

Real world applications:
medicine
science
space - solar array
body
consumer electronics

good for making something small for journey, big and sheet-like at the destination (great for body/health (heart stent), space), and efficient airbag flattening.


"as weird as it may sound, origami may someday save a life"

Low-cost, hobbyist robotics

"Dash Robotics was founded at UC Berkeley by four Ph.D. students with a simple mission — to make robots cheap, lightweight, and fun to use. The breakthrough came when one of the founders realized that robot joints could be mechanically engineered and constructed in a completely different way."

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/a-smarter-use-of-crowdfunding-for-the-cheapest-robots-in-silicon-valley-a-vcs-view/

Pulse jet bike

Dangerous but awesome

http://jalopnik.com/absurdly-loud-jet-bike-built-by-absurdly-loud-dudes-510494866

Social network addiction

Could the reason we are so addicted to social networks be that our every day lives aren't entertaining/fulfilling enough?

Could this be the same reason why people indulge in entertainment? Is this statement equating social networks to a form of entertainment?

Improving batteries

Supercapacitor

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/20/tech/whiz-kid/index.html?sr=fb052413chargephone20sec1a

3d printing food

Not sure how I feel about Dean Kamen's surgically implanted aspiration device. Seems like unnecessary surgery and sounds kind of gross.

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/hunger-obesity-hacker-3d-printed-meal

Persistence of vision in bicycle wheels

Display images in your bike wheels.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minimonkey/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display-system

Conducive Paint

Draw your own circuits.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/23/tech/innovation/bare-electrically-conductive-paint/index.html

DIY Drones

Jordi Munoz

http://diydrones.com/profile/jordii

Sustainable House Ideas

1/8/2013

This post will be used to keep track of ideas I have for my house. In the future, I'd like to have the following:

• library
• electronics lab bench
• plant greenhouse
• metal/wood workshop
• solar panels on roof