Hacking the RoboSapien
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Going Ape over RoboSapien
Going Ape over RoboSapien
12/02/2003 12:24 AMTaiwan News has an article about RoboSapien being a
humanoid robot that dishes out kung fu moves. Mark Tilton, aka
BEAM
religious leader, and hyped as a Nasa scientist (you either like him
or hate him),
is helping Wow Wee
toys create the
RoboSapien which will be coming soon to stores at around $100
each. RoboSapien
is build on the BEAM concept like their previous toy BIO Bugs
(popular a couple a years ago), but instead of a bug it is sort of
like a
fast lumbering ape. It walks like a ape, it growls like an ape, it
even
passes gas like
an ape. It can dance and do kung fu. I"m sure kids will go ape over
this thing.
Robosapien
Robosapien
08/31/2004 05:49 AMGadget Madness reviews the Robosapien and dresses him up in pimp
clothing. I saw a stack of them at Costco...
robosapien!
robosapien!
06/10/2004 02:38 PMwe got a couple of these. they rule, at least until the novelty wears
off.
First Peek at Robosapien V2
First Peek at Robosapien V2
01/06/2005 07:47 PMMini Robosapien and More
Mini Robosapien and More
01/04/2005 09:01 AM
Having made many of the "must have" lists for Xmas 2004,
WowWee is introducing follow ups to their breakout product, the
Robosapien. A new 7-inch Mini Robosapien is the first to be shown,
shipping in February for just $10. More robots will be shown at CES
this week, including a new 'Robosapien V2,' a 'Roboraptor,' and a
'Robopet.'
Mini Robosapien
[I4U]
Robosapien Roundup
Robosapien Roundup
08/18/2004 04:15 PMSeveral interesting Robosapien items
have been submitted lately. From Gizmodo comes news of a giant
Robosapien outside the Macy's department store in New York. Also,
zodiak has written an article
on the Robosapien's internals that includes lots of very clear
photos. That sort of information will come in handy if you plan on
entering the SERVO
Magazine Hack-A-Sapien contest. Also some DPRG members dissected a
Robosapien at a recent RBNO. If you haven't got
a Robosapien
yet, they're still available from Amazon.com
at a discount. Links to more photos and video of the
Robosapien are available in a previous robots.net article.
R2-D2 does battle with Robosapien
R2-D2 does battle with Robosapien
12/19/2004 03:03 PMZDNet Dec 17 2004 6:33PM GMT
RoboSapien Shipping!
RoboSapien Shipping!
05/07/2004 06:19 AMArgh! Reader Jon Cohen is killing me: he let me know that he received
his pre-ordered RoboSapien (from Best Buy), which means not only
should they be shipping to almost everyone soon, it also means that I
totally forgot to order one. If anyone gets one in, feel free to...
Robosapien V2 (and Friends!)
Robosapien V2 (and Friends!)
01/06/2005 09:52 PM
The new Robosapien V2 looks fantastic. For just 200
bucks, the new bot will be able track objects and movements, recognize
objects and skin tones—all sorts of crazy stuff. Onrobo
(another one of the new robot blogs, a trend I think is great) has
details, as well as this first picture. Oh, and they have information
about Roboraptor
and Robopet, which the new V2 Robosapien can control (although
they can be operated independently).
Robosapien™ V2
– Bigger, Smarter and more fun [OnRobo]
Chrome Robosapien
Chrome Robosapien
08/30/2004 08:08 AM
Could it be that Sharper Image actually has something
marginally cool? Incomprehensible as that may be, it appears that the
technoshlock vendor is selling special edition "Signature Series"
RoboSapiens, available in both Chrome and Blue, with designer Mark
Tilden's autograph.
I realized as I started to write this that I had missed my little
brother's seventh birthday. Nate, if you're reading this, remember
that your brother doesn't hate you, he just, uhm, was waiting for the
chrome one to come out. Actually, your brother just calculated
shipping at Sharper Image, and you're getting a white one from someone
else, because with shipping prices like that they can blow him. This
is the brutal world of finance I am teaching you about!
Read - Chrome
Signature Series Robosapien [I4U]
Voice-Controlled Robosapien
Voice-Controlled Robosapien
04/03/2005 01:15 PMRobosapien Update with Video
Robosapien Update with Video
03/06/2004 02:03 AMThere's a lot of buzz lately about Robosapien,
Mark Tilden's latest robotics venture. Dave Hrynkiw of Solarbotics
sent us this update:
"Solarbotics visited Mark Tilden at the Wow-Wee show room during
the
2004 New York City Toy Fair. The Robosapien has been getting very high
interest, garnering coverage in both the toy-trade and TIME magazine
issues released during the fair. It's presently on pre-sale at
BestBuy.com (on their website cover
page) for $99.99 (yes we know that Toys'R'Us
/ Amazon list it for $89.99, but we have it on good authority that
they'll most likely not be getting it in stock before BestBuy does).We
are fortunate to be the first to bring you video
footage of what the production Robosapien is capable of. Enjoy!"
The Solarbotics site also has plenty of photos
and video of the development and pre-production versions of the robot.
RoboSapien Reviewed, Music Videoed
RoboSapien Reviewed, Music Videoed
08/31/2004 07:44 AM
Gadget Madness has completed an arduous multi-week
"experience" with the RoboSapien that has ended (as many love affairs
do) with a music video. See the white robot ape chase away pigeons,
bask in the plastic-crackling sun, and co-opt the culture of black
robots - sort of a mechsploitation film, really. They've also
got a really nice collection of links at the end of their review for
those interested in hacking their RoboSapien to do even more than it
does out of the box.
Read - Ultimate Review: Robosapien Programmable Toy Battle Robot from
ThinkGeek [GadgetMadness]
Related
Ch
rome Robosapien [Gizmodo]
RoboSapien Shipping! [Gizmodo]
RoboSapien hacked with Pocket PC and
Camera
RoboSapien hacked with Pocket PC and
Camera
09/19/2004 06:08 AMI4U Sep 19 2004 10:10AM GMT
Robosapien V2, RoboRaptor, and RoboPet
Release Dates
Robosapien V2, RoboRaptor, and RoboPet
Release Dates
02/01/2005 09:08 PM
GadgetMadness confirms the release date of WowWee's next set
of Robots and I have to say I'm disappointed. While I'm not looking
forward to paying $200 for a Robosapien V2, I'm most certainly not
looking forward to waiting until December before I can get my hands on
one. The RoboRaptor [pictured] will launch for $100 in August, which
might sooth me, although I may wait to go cheap in October and get one
of the ambiguously named Robotpets for $70 instead. Or I'll do what I
did with the first Robosapien and get one for my brother, then steal
it from him when I go home for the holidays.
Robosapien V2, Robopet,
and Roboraptor Release Dates [GadgetMadness]
GadgetMadness.com Interviews Robosapien
Toy Robot Creator, Mark W. Tilden
GadgetMadness.com Interviews Robosapien
Toy Robot Creator, Mark W. Tilden
12/17/2004 06:40 PMGadgetMadness.com interviews Robosapien toy robot creator, Mark W.
Tilden. [PRWEB Nov 30, 2004]
Robots, Toys, Speech Recognition – Voice
Controlled Robosapien
Robots, Toys, Speech Recognition – Voice
Controlled Robosapien
04/18/2005 02:16 AMMany Robosapien owners love to talk to their favorite robot. Now,
with the help of the Robosapien Dance Machine project and the CMU
Sphinx speech recognition engine, he is listening. [PRWEB Apr 18,
2005]
Robot Toys - Robosapien Dance Machine
Released as Open Source Software
Robot Toys - Robosapien Dance Machine
Released as Open Source Software
03/14/2005 05:06 PMMany Robosapien owners are looking for a way to get more out of the
greatest consumer robot of the new millennium. The Robosapien Dance
Machine software, released as a free open source program on
SourceForge, is a powerful tool for creating your own videos, comedy
sketches, and complex performances with your favorite robot. [PRWEB
Mar 7, 2005]
Car hacking
Car hacking
12/19/2004 03:40 PMRace for the Ultimate Car Hacks By Michelle Deli People have been
tinkering with their cars since the first horseless buggy hit the
road. Now, thanks to onboard computerized systems that control
everything from engine management systems to radios, hackers can
customize their rides in ways that are likely to have Henry Ford doing
back flips in his grave. Feeding this need for speed with aftermarket
computer chips and simple upgraded components gneerates $25
million…
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GIF Hacking
GIF Hacking
09/08/2004 12:27 PMCommon knowledge says that modifying a compressed
image is a bad idea. Not always, though.
Who's hacking who?
Who's hacking who?
07/11/2004 06:20 PMMacleans Online Jul 11 2004 9:28PM GMT
Hacking Mac OS X
Hacking Mac OS X
03/28/2005 03:16 PMEmbracing the Art of Hacking
Embracing the Art of Hacking
05/19/2004 04:42 AMIf you can avoid some of the tedious bits, Paul Graham has some good
points to make about the relationship between art and coding. Michelle
Delio reviews Hackers and Painters.
No medals for hacking
No medals for hacking
08/22/2004 11:17 PMUSA Today Aug 23 2004 3:14AM GMT
- Law Against Internet Hacking
- Law Against Internet Hacking
08/30/2004 08:01 AMHankooki Aug 30 2004 12:28PM GMT
Law Against Internet Hacking
Law Against Internet Hacking
08/30/2004 08:01 AMHankooki Aug 30 2004 12:08PM GMT
Hacking Quartz
Hacking Quartz
07/06/2004 03:19 PMHacking Mac OS X Panther
Hacking Mac OS X Panther
07/03/2004 10:01 AMRael Dornfest, coauthor of Mac OS X Panther Hacks, has selected these
three hacks from the book for your sampling pleasure. The first two
detail how to find anyone in your Address Book who has an Amazon Wish
List, and how to build a GUI to your Unix scripts with a bit of Perl
or Python; the third is just for fun. Enjoy. By Rael Dornfest,
O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)
Hacking matter
Hacking matter
06/24/2004 06:41 AMI've been reading Wil McCarthy's book
Hacking Matter, which is a popularized version
of the serious study of quantum dots and the ability to build
pseudomatter using artificial atoms. How can one not like a book,
which contains wonderful sentences such as this one:
- Now we can create not only a thin film of goldlike
pseudomatter, but a three-dimensional solid with pseudogold dopant
atoms on the inside as well. Thus, we can generate a bulk material
with the mass of wickered silicon, but the physical, chemical, and
electrical properties of an otherwise-impossible gold/silicon
alloy.
I mean - even the minuscule thought of it is breathtaking! The
wonders of the universe! How could one not love this world, when so
many incredible things are about? This could, and would change the
face of the world as we know it. You just flick a switch, and you can
make a part of the wall transparent - or a light source - or a TV
screen - or gold. Whatever pleases you.
As an aside, I also found another very interesting paragraph (among
thousands, but this one has an ominous look):
- At his insistence, we filed an application with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office, and within a few weeks we'd
been contacted by the U.S. Air Force about the possibility of maybe
licensing it.
Note that even in the US, patents are generally considered secret and
proprietary, until a year of the filing date has passed. This is so
that the application can be amended, fixed, and just being kept secret
from the competitors, who might find a way to redesign around the
actual implementation (ideas are not patentable as such). Obviously,
the military is ignoring all that and have their own informants within
the US patent process... Somehow, that does not surprise me at
all.
Hacking Idol
Hacking Idol
05/17/2004 02:54 PMIt's great to finally hear someone talk about phone phreaking and
other attempts to subvert American Idol voting. Just
last week I was trolling the web looking for web-to-SMS gateways to
see if one could write a bot to vote-spam an American Idol contestant.
To hear that folks are using automated dialers to shut out voters
seems even more obvious. They should probably just make the voting a
900 number, at say, 50 cents a vote, in order to limit hackery but
people could still simply jam the lines with DoS attacks using
dialers.
Hacking the planet
Hacking the planet
08/05/2004 02:23 PMIs Hacking Ethical
Is Hacking Ethical
05/13/2004 09:40 AMFeatures: Hacking XML
Features: Hacking XML
09/15/2004 07:42 PMAmong author Mike Fitzgerald's favorite hacks in
XML Hacks are two
that use SP, James Clark's free, open-source SGML-parser package. The
first hack shows how to convert a minimally tagged document to
well-formed XML. The second shows how to convert a Wiki format to XML
via SGML and SP tools.
Wi-Fi hacking, a primer
Wi-Fi hacking, a primer
08/13/2004 09:18 AMHardware Hacking
Hardware Hacking
04/23/2004 01:31 PMMan charged with hacking
Man charged with hacking
07/23/2004 11:35 AMglobetechnology.com Jul 23 2004 3:26PM GMT
More Roomba hacking
More Roomba hacking
07/14/2004 10:00 AM
Another group of hardware hackers have at a Roomba robotic
vacuum cleaner:
"For higher level control, we've attached a Virgin
Webplayer. The Webplayer was sold as a loss leader for Virgin's
internet service in the late 90s, and thus can be found on ebay for
under $100. It has two serial ports, a 200MHz Geode processor, 64M
ram, and a miniPCI port. Thus, we can give it an 802.11b card, a
webcam, and a usb-serial adapter."
Link (via MetaFilter)Hacking Text
Hacking Text
05/10/2004 04:21 PMCNET posts an inter
esting New York Times article about a group of European
researchers who have found ways to 'un-black' blacked out text in
documents like those released by the government in recent months by
using a process-of-elimination technique to figure out what words fit
under the obscured area.
The researchers showed their software at the conference, called
Eurocrypt, by analyzing a presidential briefing memorandum released in
April to the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks. After
analyzing the document, they said they had high confidence the word
"Egyptian" had been blacked out in a passage describing the source of
an intelligence report stating that Osama Bin Ladin was planning an
attack in the United States.
Via BoingBoing.
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Google hacking
Google hacking
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