For a mere $30,000 you too can have such a setup. Not a lot of information is out yet, but we do know all the pieces are remote controlled via a PC with LabVIEW and a total of 38 NXT controllers are used. Oh, and of course you can see it live at the 2010 Brickworld. Check out a video of a replayed game after the jump.
Over 100,000 Lego pieces, 4 people a year to create, and a 12 foot by 12 foot chess board make this the largest most awesome Lego hack I’ve ever seen. Take that Lego Printer. For a mere $30,000 you too can have such a setup. Not a lot of information is out yet, but we do know all the pieces are remote controlled via a PC with LabVIEW and a total of 38 NXT controllers are used. Oh, and of course you can see it live at the 2010 Brickworld. Check out a video of a replayed game after the jump. Cube Creative Productions announces that its first animated series, Kaeloo, directed by Rémi Chapotot, will be aired both on Cartoon+, a Canal+ Family program, from 6 June 2010, and unencrypted on Canal+ in the slot left vacant by Canal Football Club during the summer. Kaeloo is a series of 52 x 7’ featuring four "buddies": Kaeloo herself, a well-meaning frog, Stumpy, a squirrel with Tourette-like tics, Quack-Quack, a former lab-duck pieced back together and, incidentally, the punch-bag of the sinister and incorrigibly pretentious Mister Cat, who takes a sadistic pleasure in spoiling the games played by the other three. But fun soon turns to violence, especially when Kaeloo, rightly angered by Mr. Cat's constant bullying of Quack-Quack, turns in to Bad Kaeloo, a cross between Godzilla and the Incredible Hulk. Every time, Mr. Cat finally gets the message… and his comeuppance! Kaeloo is a series with mordant humor and breathtaking visual gags, superbly backed by crisp dialog that will make young and old laugh thanks to the masterful script direction by Jean-Francois Henry and the directing of Rémi Chapotot. Jack Streat went and built himself a fully functional Lee Enfield sniper rifle out of LEGO Technics. And by 'fully functional' I mean the thing can accurately shoot LEGO blocks up to a couple feet. It's definitely not gonna make a terrorist's head explode or anything. Now I'm not saying you could do more damage with a Lincoln Log catapult, but I have eaten a couple LEGO bullets before with little to no damage (they passed just like corn except with a *tink* when they hit the bottom of the bowl). Tetris and Contra, 2 games that were highly popular during the 8bit ~ 16bit video game age. And somebody clever enough has come with a funny little animation where you can see how Contra fights through Tetris. "Lego felt tip 110" printer connected to an Apple Mac. This is not mindstorms, designed/built/coded from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a "wiring" board. Seems Google Chrome has started a trend, because now Opera wants to prove it's even better then Chrome. A mash up of hilarious robot sound effects made into an electro track. Funky, funny and weird, it's worth a watch. The music can be annoying though, but it will definitely make you smile. About Google: (as if you needed this) Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are available via paid subscription. Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters, often referred to as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data each hour. Facebook, Inc. is a company that operates and privately owns social networking website, Facebook. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website’s membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide. |
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