March 2010
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Debug MAX commands sent to Animata
This command listens on UDP port 7110 and displays the output. This is the same thing Animata is doing to react to commands from MAX.
Self-assembling computer chips →
WatchDye tipping mechanisim.
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WatchThe spy robot making a break for it. Notice how it avoids the wall and almost loops back. The winning robot was the one to travel furthest from the starting square.
Various paints, mediums and food dyes in water
The purpose of this test is to observe the behaviour of dye in water. If our robot is to create ‘drawings’ in a tank of water using dye or paint, the movement and dispersion of the colour in the water is important.
Undiluted food dye worked the best. It disperses in the water, but not too fast. It does not sink to the bottom in a blob like the acrylic paint and clear mediums did.
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Social Mapping
Our task for today was to create a wall-wide-web of interconnected people and things. Each person in the group contributed their identity as a node in the web with answers to a set of common questions forming the “web of things”.
String connections were made between people and their answers to questions. Same answers to questions were connected also. As you can see the web quickly...
