Raspberry Pi Dynamic Bike Headlight Prototype and Test – YouTube.

Ok now this is the sort of technology that I like to hear about. An under skin sensor that can detect blood sugar level changes (diabetes), cholesterol levels, chemo therapy effectiveness and potentially warn of heart attacks BEFORE they happen by several hours.

Wireless ‘under the skin’ prototype implant beams instant blood test read-outs to your smartphone.

So this is a ram chip stacked on top of a processor. This means that instead of the processor being in one spot on the board and the ram being several inches away, they are effectively one chip. The article mentions that the data of a full bluray disc could be moved from the ram through the chip in 1/50th of a second. THAT is Fast! This is the future in general of chips, stacking and mixing layers of logic and memory. This means very good things for customers.

NVIDIA reveals Volta next-gen GPU platform.

File under technology is awesome.

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Robots are awesome!

Compressorhead Ace of Spades – YouTube.

So I haven’t actually posted something new here in a while, if you discount updating the previous entry umpteen times with new pictures. That got a bit unwieldy so I moved it up to it’s own page above (look up there at the top) and hide the entry that was here. Speaking of which this site was overhauled too. It was past time for a new look. I was never 100% sold on the previous theme I downloaded so this time I just made one of my own. I’m happy with it again. It’s not complete yet. I need to put the dynamic stuff back in, the background color changing with the time of day and the top image. Currently both are fixed to what you see. This weekend I hope to have the time to do it right. There will be fewer colors and the top image at the top will match the color of the page instead of being random. And I’m going to get rid of a bunch of the less then stellar images. The stellar ones are mostly from the Astronomy Picture of the Day, linked above. I’ve massively abbreviated everything up there, but it’s all still there plus lots of new stuff.

One of the big reasons I haven’t had time for this much neglected site is school. I’m into my final year of Mechanical Engineering. I only have my senior design class this semester. Or rather I did until I thought “hey I’ve got LOTS of free time, I should learn Mandarin!” so now I’m taking Mandarin too. Additionally I’m also relearning/refreshing Spanish and French and maybe, sort of considering Tagalog too. Tagalog likely won’t happen for me this year though. The senior project is great though. We’re designing a replacement for the MIT Handiboard. That may have been a good system at one point but it’s certainly seen better days: it’s too slow, big, heavy, error prone, and expensive. Our system will be small, lightweight, under $50 (preferably about $30), modular, and completely open. You can buy one or roll your own. We should have the beginings of a prototype here in the next week or so. Controlling a robot will come a few days/weeks after that. World domination commences with the new year. As it stands we have more demo ideas then time, effort or money will allow and we’re still coming up with more ideas. Come Design Day in mid-April we’ll hopefully steal the show!

So I recently found a neat idea online and made it tonight. It’s a box to put all your power cords in to declutter your desk. I added a USB hub to it and now my laptop has all its wires neatly arrayed.

So last night I managed to get an hbridge up and running and controlling a motor (mostly, needs work). Not bad for a few hours work and being entirely self taught. I also discovered that I’m famous in eastern europe. Or at least my page is. With drug spammers. Nearly killed my site! Still working of fixing it and cleaning up the mess. I’ll have pics of my hbridge mess up later.