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snake robot

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responsive bio-mimetic tutorial

2 weeks ago, i had a conversation with my students talking about our final review's goal. along the hard working of this semester, we tried to articulate a view point about a responsive pattern, which is based on the mechanism of the target bio-creature each group is being asked to research. and then the knowledge is materialized into a proto-device, a mimetic prototype. the step followiong is the mutation of its variation and composition of its pattern. the final step is the artificial life formulation wuth the help of arduino and sensor to create a responsive pattern.

flowing rain trace as an adjustable formation

i took a bus the other day. it was raining and freezing in taipei. i looked outside through the window to see the cityscape. to some degree, a bus window is an excellent observing tool to experience the city life and culture. due to the rain fall and the uneven bus roof, so there came a continuing little "river" flowing vertically passing on the window surface. i am so attractive to this tiny urban spectacle, more charming than the taipei 101 fire work at the new year eve, that i was suddenly isolated from the other city events and focused on the changeable water trace i was witnessing. what is more graceful and astonishing is the story the rain and bus scriped together, sharing the same key structure to the generation of animated forms, vivid forms, or the forms with life. from an embryo in a womb to the landscape of earth, from the baking bread in the oven to the rushing stream of the boiled water demostrates the process of form making and its moveable nature in form. i have to say it is a tiny opening ocasionally happening in daily life, but also a deep insight that sees through the apprearance of the enormous structure that functions steadily in the universe.

【轉貼】Google研發自動駕駛車 反應比人靈敏 ； Google tests cars that drive themselves

The cars have done thousands of miles, Google says


Nobody spotted the Google car crossing the Golden Gate Bridge


【聯合報╱編譯組／綜合報導】 2010.10.11 04:27 am


網路巨擘Google最近在加州對他們研發的自動駕駛車進行試車，它以豐田的Prius油電車改裝而成，駕駛座有人，但不開車，車頂的漏斗狀圓筒，也是汽車的「眼睛」十分吸睛，不過，Google擅自在加州進行自動駕駛試車，更讓道路安全專家側目，當局正調查是否違法。

Google正祕密研發自動駕駛汽車，它利用人工智慧軟體感應汽車的周遭環境，再模仿人類，作出一連串的駕駛決定。Google有七輛車同時試車。每車的駕駛座有一人，於車子出差錯時隨時接手，後座有一技師，負責監控導航系統。根據紀錄，自動汽車可完全無人為干預狀況下行駛一千六百公里，測試過程總行駛里程已超過二十三萬公里，僅偶爾須人為介入。

七部原型車目前僅有一次車禍紀錄，而且並非自動車本身的問題，而是停在紅綠燈前被後面的車輛追撞。

工程師表示，自動駕駛系統反應比人類靈敏，擁有三百六十度全方位感應，且不受分心、打瞌睡或酒精、藥物影響，自動駕駛汽車一旦上路，工程師相信，車禍死亡人數可望減半。

Google堅稱他們上路前，已問過律師，並無違法問題，且Google的自動駕駛汽車不會危及其他駕駛。該公司強調，研發自動駕駛汽車即是為減少車禍發生，且他們試車時，均有人在車上。


Engineers at Google have tested a self-driving car on the streets of California, the company has announced.

The cars use video cameras mounted on the roof, radar sensors and a laser range finder to "see" other traffic, software engineer Sebastian Thrun said.

They remain manned at all times by a trained driver ready to take control as well as by a software expert.

Google hopes the cars can eventually help reduce road traffic and cut the number of accidents.

In a posting on the company's official blog, Mr Thrun said the self-driven cars had so far covered 140,000 miles on the road.

They have crossed San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate bridge, negotiated the city's famous sloping streets, driven between Google offices, and made it around Lake Tahoe in one piece.


'Exciting future'

Engineers told the New York Times that the forays onto the highways have been largely incident-free, apart from one bump when the car was reportedly hit from behind at a traffic light.

In his Google blog post, Mr Thrun - professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University - insisted that safety was the "first priority" in the project.

Routes are pre-planned, mapped first by real drivers, and local police are briefed in advance, he says.

But he pointed to figures from the World Health Organization which show that more than 1.2 million people are killed each year on the roads, and said that number could and should be reduced.

"We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half.


"While this project is very much in the experimental stage, it provides a glimpse of what transportation might look like in the future thanks to advanced computer science. And that future is very exciting," he added.

Google has rapidly branched out from its previous core business of search in recent years.

The company already has significant interests in location services through its Google Maps and Google Street View offerings.

MIT Flyfire

MIT 將LED與微形直昇機結合，成為3D畫素，可以空中成像。
當然很好玩！很棒！
只是將它當成電腦螢幕與突現理論應用是截然不同的。
編排蒙那麗莎！OMG!

MIT確實很強，有些成就獨步全球！
不過有時候其實還有點笨，只強調技術實踐既有的想法，蠻死板的。
不過到是與實業界接合的蠻順暢的，大概就是其中的原因吧！
賺錢不能太本質，俗就有"利"!
(不要打我！)
不過萬丈高樓平地起，有很大的潛力！

消息來源：http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/#

amphibious amphicoach tourist bus

網上看到水陸兩用的遊覽車，想到跨界的設計，設計原型的意義。曾經聽到有人說，原型是根本、本質、不可在減少的性質之類的說法，應該是基本型的意思。我對於原型，不是抱持這樣的想法。相反地，原型不是事物基本的性質，而是打破事物既有性質的方式，藉此重夠事物的秩序。而這輛車是一個小小的示範，如何重構我們對事物的認知。

i browsed the internet and found this interesting amphibious tourist bus which reminds me the meaning of a "prototype", a crossing boundary design. i heard some people defined a prototype as an essensial, unreduceable object which means "Being basic!". as for me, i disagree this aspect. In the opposite, a prototype is a way by which we break the existing organizational structure and redefine its texture order. this amiphicoach is an example which shows how we re-construct our definition towards a "tourist bus" or the boundary between land and water.

mobile living

詳細資料：
http://chinese.autoblog.com/2009/02/04/japan-guts/

收到之前學生小黑寄來的網路資訊，關於三個日本年輕人，改裝一輛toyota卡車，成為一輛環遊日本、五臟俱全的生活車。一方面聯繫到小湘的畢業設計，同樣是做移動式的車輛/建築；另一方面讓我回想到多年前，我利用我的pickup車廂後斗加遮棚，在東海睡過好幾個晚上，那種游牧式的生活是一種體驗。