Friday, January 26, 2007

"理性、科學、正義、還有真理" (我麻吉的想法)

這是我一位天才好友的網誌-No Syrup on the Bottom. 前往探索一番,保證會有你/妳異想不到的體驗---當然,妳/你也必需要有點特別才行.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The NXT STEP - Lego Mindstorms NXT Blog

'The NXT STEP - Lego Mindstorms NXT Blog' is a nice site for things about LEGO's NXT robotics. It also sometimes includes the news for other robotic species, such as the recent sibling of the famous robotic vacuum cleaner iRobot Roomba.

Monday, January 01, 2007

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT + LabVIEW + Real Neurons = ?


I have been indulging myself in designing a testbed to achieve the dream of real cybernetics. Although my current research projects have nothing to do with this crazy idea, I still can't help putting a memo about it.

In December 2006, LabVIEW released the toolkit for LEGO's new MINDSTORMS NXT that advances the applications of NXT upon cybernetics. LabVIEW is an excellent software that with proper DAQ hardware can be used as an interface to record the live signals from the realistic neuronal systems, and to stimulate or regulate it as a feedback.

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is the most advanced toy robot kits that provides both the amateurs and even professional scientists easy access to the robotic technology. There have been enormous number of 3rd party software communities (ex. Microsoft Robotics Studio) that are developing programming interface for LEGO MINDSTORMS.

Combining with these technology, do you think the dream machine like RoboCop or Borg will be possibly achieved in the expectable future?