Tag: robot
Sobig.F Robots Pacman and SCO
August 22nd, 2003, No Comments
Sobig.F fun The W32/Sobig.F worm seems to be creating transient email logjams all over the net today. Even though we’re running Linux and not directly affected by the worm, we’ve seen a lot of really strange email traffic the last couple of days. Periods of no email at all will be followed by a huge [...]
More on Walking Robots
September 9th, 2001, No Comments
I went to a regular DPRG meeting for the first time in several months yesterday. It turned out to be fairly productive. Eric and I did a little empirical research with his walking robot (which we’re likely to use as a starting point for the CF Walker design). We verified that it can travel up [...]
Thoughts on a Walking Robot
September 4th, 2001, No Comments
In the spare moments between work today, I’ve been thinking about rough design parameters for the CF Walker biped. To get some initial numbers, I started with the fact that it has to complete a 10k walk. Jim and I decided on 4 hours as being a reasonable target to complete the walk (it takes [...]
Robots Fighting Fires
March 18th, 2001, No Comments
The DPRG held the regional for the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest in Dallas today. I took a few photos and will try to post them tomorrow or Monday on robots.net along with a summary of the action. Otherwise, I spent the day hacking on a Perl/DBI/PostgreSQL project. I’m looking forward to the release of [...]
DPRG Regional Fire-Fighting Robot Contest
March 13th, 2000, No Comments
Sunday we dragged the mower and weed-whacking equipment out of the garage and spent the day trying to make our front and back yard look acceptable again. With all the stuff going on this weekend, I didn’t get to make it out to the DPRG-sponsored regional fire fighting contest at the Science Place. Fortunately, Robert [...]
Thunderstorms and Robots
May 26th, 1999, No Comments
There’s a good size thunderstorm going on outside right now. From the look of the radar images it’ll probably be raining for most of the night. I’ve been working on a new Perl program (GPL’ed of course!) which I’ve decided to call “Event Horizon”. Its purpose is to generate an ASCII and HTML format event [...]
