[Noisebridge-discuss] what could we do with one of these babies..

[meredith scheff]

actually, if you watch the video on the left- they are giving out 10 models
to 'businesses, nonprofits, and hackerspaces'.
We are at least one of those.
-meredith

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:

> Nice piece of kit.
>
> But programming any kind of useful behavior is capital-H HARD. I think
> their business model is to sell to researchers (like the UCB towel
> folding people), and by using the open source model they get the
> benefit if anyone figures it out. If  they had a killer app they'd be
> selling it to do that, right?
>
> In fact, it's not clear how "open" their hardware platform is (can we
> get schematics and part sources at cost?)  so "open" may actually be
> an abuse of the term...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:55 PM, meredith scheff <satiredun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > besides a better door opener:
> > http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/robots/pr2-overview
> >
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> to
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doing stuff and making things
---
"The function of all art ... is an extension of the function of the visual
brain, to acquire knowledge; ...artists are, in a sense, neurologists who
study the capacities of the visual brain with techniques that are unique to
them. ." -Semir Zeki
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