13
Sep
2005
Shared Birthdays – I’m so honored
I was unaware of it, but apparently I share my birthday (on this glorious, if extremely hot day) with an international celebrity by the name of Mario. Perhaps you’ve heard of him? He’s prone to wearing red overalls and has a wicked mustachio.
Check out the Japanese celebration page
Of course, this may explain why the Super Nintendo came out a couple of days early and I got one on my birthday so long ago in 1991. Super Mario Brothers was the
And 28 years ago to the day, GM introduced the first Diesel consumer automobiles, the Oldsmobile 88 and 98 models.
Other important events
History Channel: This Day in History, September 13
- 1847: General Winfield Scott storms the Chapultepec fortress
- 1862: The Union discovers “Lost Order”
- 1916: Children’s author Roald Dahl is born
- 1940: Italy invades Egypt
- 1964: Attempted coup against Vietnamese Khanh government fails
- 1965: Louis Armstrong wins Grammy
- 1993: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Accord
My name is
September 13th, 2005 at 8:14 pm (#)
Happy birthday!
Apparently the Sooners of Oklahoma decided to celebrate your birthday by stealing your idea. Damn Big 12 and their corrupt ethics!
“A group at the University of Oklahoma has created a Mac Mini-based robot:
This is a description of a mobile robot using an Mac Mini and iSight camera for tele-operation. The purpose of this project is to see what it is like to control to robot using the built-in visual and aural sensors before designing an agent to do the same task. The robot is a Pioneer 3-AT made by ActivMedia and the Mac Mini was graciously provided by Apple computer at no charge. Dr. Amy McGovern provided the iSight camera.
The tests were preformed at the Stephenson Research and Technology Center located at University of Oklahoma. Our group, part of the Artificial Intelligence Research laboratory in Computer Science, was interested in evaluating the Mac Mini because of its small size, built-in wireless and firewire capabilities.”
As seen at Macintouch and Arstechnica, among others.
September 14th, 2005 at 1:21 pm (#)
Yeah, well, I can’t post my article up for another month, but I encourage everyone to go out and pick up a September issue of MacTech magazine (mactech.com) for my article on building and programming your own Mac-Mini robot.
I’ll post some pictures at least this weekend.
September 14th, 2005 at 9:54 pm (#)
But does the minibot walk Ainslie?
Why do I suspect there will be a green paint can dripping on the sidewalk tomorrow?