OTTAWA MINI MAKER FAIRE!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

There’s going to be a Maker Faire in Ottawa November 6th & 7th! If you’re around during that time, come see our beautiful capital and our crazy cool hacks! For more info, check out Artengine.

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BUBBLEHOG DAY – NO SHADOW!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Yay!!!!

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Updated WordPress

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

After using a version of wordpress that’s really old, I updated to the new one.

It’s okay-ish. A lot of bugs. I won’t be surprised if I downgrade haa! Plus, the maps plugin that showed who was currently online doesn’t work anymore… ;(

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Prizes? For me? Wow!!!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, October 20th, 2008

Apparently I won a prize for placing 10th in the DVICE MAKE Cylon competition!! =D
I got a MAKE the FIRST YEAR (autographed) boxed set of 4 zines, and a 1 year sub to SciFi mag! !!

The SciFi mag has Chuck in it… coool!!

That made my day! Definitely worth paying the $30 for shipping. At least I got a prize!! (Remember: I wasn’t even eligible to enter this competition) =P!

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So yeah… my robot (MANOI, with the Arduino-SSC-32 to Processing program) WAS working, now it isn’t. I’m not entirely sure what I changed :X! Debugging again and again…

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Stanford’s Version of MIT OCW

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, September 19th, 2008

Looks like Stanford has their own version of MIT OCW with some neat courses up! It’s called Stanford Engineering Everywhere.

I’m just looking at the Machine Learning course now… it looks pretty fun – definitely worth checking out

SEE

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Today…

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Today is a pretty happy day! ^_^ It’s sunny out, and it’s my birthday! I didn’t get any presents, but that’s okay I did something that I wanted to do for a while now… I still haven’t finished blogging all of my pics from the Stanford EPGY SI AI trip!

The last place I went to while in California was the JPL! It was really amazing! Our tourer works on Deep Space. Uber cool!

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Put on your Sunday Clothes

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Sunday, August 24th, 2008

I actually bought the real Wall-E soundtrack, since I like it so much! It’s uber cool… it comes in a recycled material case

At first, I thought the movie was medium… it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad. The whole dystopian/furturistic evolution of people as they became more dependent on technology really freaked me out. The hover chairs and BNL were the main sources of that. They should have taken better care of the planet- cans could have been recycled, along with all the other garbage.
One of the quotes that stands out in my mind is…

Auto: “On the Axiom, you will survive”
Captain: “I don’t want to survive, I want to live!”

But… everyone is really liking it – except for me!! WHYy? I think I figured it out…
If I didn’t know about dystopian societies, like in Handsmade Tale, 1984, Brave New World… then I wouldn’t have thought that it would be dystopian (which I automatically connect with BAD) but instead, futuristic.
If I wasn’t anticipating a cheesy ‘Hello Dave’ joke with Auto, I wouldn’t have been disappointed, ha.
If I didn’t know that creating robots with emotions as complex as in Eve & WALL-E, then I wouldn’t have taken a ‘that’s almost impossible’* attitude.
*it’s actually not too much ‘that’s almost impossible’, it would just need complex AI, even a form of general AI.

I could go on, but really the point is is that WALL-E is a really awesome movie if I didn’t know… . Now that I realize that, it is a pretty good movie I’m for sure buying the 3 DVD set.

The soundtrack is amazing too… everyone should spend the extra few dollars to buy it in real

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