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Be back soon

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Erin, the RobotGrrl
on June 21, 2008
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See ya later to all of the people that read this! A big thanks to everyone that helped donate over $1000! It helped a lot. The rest of the costs were covered by a reserved education savings account thing. This is going to be amazing! And I’m going to the JPL! :D Feel free to email me when I’m gone! I’m not sure if I will reply, but if I do it will be from RobotGrrl :)~at~:) rocketmail.com.

I hope to come back with many project ideas and a better outlook on AI (artificial intelligence) for NLP (natural language processing), CV (computer vision), and HCI (human-computer interaction)! I’d want to explore it with Arduino, too.

In 3.5 weeks, get ready for lots of blog posts! :) Funnily enough, this blog post is #666. xD

I <3 Wall-E

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Erin, the RobotGrrl
on June 18, 2008
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Wall-E

Wall-E is probably the CUTEST robot ever. (Except for my Styrobots, of course!) The way he says his name ‘WwwwaaallLL Eee’ is irresistible. :D

I see Wall-E everywhere. And, much to my joy one day… I looked out the back window, and I saw Wall-E! This means that at least once per day, I get to see Wall-E! WOOT!

Wall-E Wall-E
*note: pics taken a long time ago

I really can’t wait until this movie comes out!! Imagine how cool Epcot will be, too. Meet the Robinsons + Wall-E!! It’s quite crazy how Pixar is just doing better and better with each animation they make. I really never thought that anything would be better than Finding Nemo, ever.

One of the things I can’t wait for is the robot! Er well, I can’t wait for me to gently tear apart the robot and hack it OR make it run on an Arduino! How cool would that be?! Having a Wall-E working off of an Arduino, connected to Processing. :D I could have all sorts of ultrasonic sensors… personalize it… make a conversational program (based off of Robbie the Robot) for it… WOOT!

Check out these two videos - they’re REALLY cool!



Wall-E Spotted in LA! from Blink on Vimeo.


Wall-E ROCKS!

Interviewed!

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Erin, the RobotGrrl
on June 11, 2008
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…and not for a job :) Check it out on RoboJenny’s site. :)

Yaay 1st interview!! ^_^

|Advanced Order| and |Thanks, MAKE!|

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Erin, the RobotGrrl
on June 8, 2008
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Thanks to MAKE for featuring my Styrobots. :D I really appreciate the encore! Encore encore encore! Yay!!

There is one Styrobot left - Spideygoo - in my Etsy store.

The next ones that I’ll be uploading (fruity themed!) will all be advanced order. Meaning, the switch, battery, and motor have not been installed yet, and they will only ship when I come back from the Stanford trip. :)

Also- I figured out a way to connect many Arduinos together without using a computer as a central hub. It will sort of be the speed of light minus processing time. Kind of like Fibre optics but a bit different. ;D I think it will work well! I’m going to be using this knowledge to make a super powered Wall-E robot with AI. =D

Astonishment

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Erin, the RobotGrrl
on June 3, 2008
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You know that Cylon contest, over at MAKE and DVICE?
Well, I may not have been able to enter, but they featured my Styrobot!

I went from $200 to $700 to $1000 in a matter of hours. I’m quite flattered, really!

I’d just like to shout-out to everyone that has helped! This means all the anonymous people, thank you all so much! Also, Jon, Win, Norri, Adrenalynn from Trossen Robotics Community Forum for buying my three Styrobots (and wanting me to autograph them XD), RoboJenny, Mike, Chris, Laurel, and (a different) Chris!!! Thanks so much to all of you. I really appreciate it.
Also, thanks a bunch to Steve who made the article on Robots.net and Kevin who made the article on DVICE.com. I really appreciate it! :D :D :D :D :D

I updated some stuff around as I had spare time,

It has been an amazing few days, thanks to everyone! :D I really do appreciate it, really! :)

THANKS!

And thanks a bunch to Miss Gierus!

Talking Robots - Cynthia Breazeal!

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Erin, the RobotGrrl
on April 11, 2008
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!

(Yes, I do believe this post is worthy of an OMG factor of 10 in BIG font!)

I just checked my Net News Wire @ 11:42PM tonight - and Talking Robots has Cynthia Breazeal! OMG!

That’s so AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO TOTALLY AWWWWEEESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I can’t wait to listen to it tomorrow!

Nexi is just so unbelievable… likable! Scary, at first, but really cool! And Kismet… Kismet inspired me to make Robbie the Robot! WOWEE!

You can check out Talking Robots here!

WOOOT!

$50 from Scott Kaine

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Erin, the RobotGrrl
on April 7, 2008
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After a most generous donation of $10 from uC Hobby, I was absolutely astonished when I had yet another email from PayPal, with a $50 donation!

This $50 donation is from Scott Kaine. Check out his blog, it’s pretty spifftastic! I’m at a loss for words. Thank you so much Scott! It truly means a lot to me. Thank you thank you thank you thank you multiplied by 1 zillion!

Not exactly sure what I will spend it on just yet. Perhaps a Wii Nunchuck controller, and a Motor Shield so I can use my 2 DC motors and make a different type of Segway! I’m thinking something like a skateboard, with a big surface area and big tires so I can balance. For some reason, the idea of a big stick in front just doesn’t cut it for me. (I want to be a RoboSk8r!) I don’t have much mass, so I think I could get away with using big wheels with a gear ratio for lots of power, and some speed, in a wooden chassis. I would use metal, but I have no clue where I could get some. Or I could use plastic from Ponoko! That way it will be pink. Or lime green! The possibilities are only limited to infinity - 1. ;)