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Stanford Engineers Create JediBot, Slowest Jedi Ever

JediBot

Some engineering students at Stanford get to take a class that might be the coolest class ever called Experimental Robotics.… Being the geeks they are, some of the students opted to build a robot arm that could have a lightsaber fight with you using foam lightsabers. The bot was dubbed

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July 19th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

Frankencamera: Open Source Digital Camera

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Stanford computer science and electrical engineering professor Marc Levoy is a bit tired of the marketing gimmicks for digital cameras. He says that the “megapixel war” is over and the battle has now shifted from quantity to quality, as in what feature does camera X have that camera Y doesn’t.…

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September 3rd, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

technabob quickpix: when a picture is worth 1000 words

Mesicopters: Tiny Flying Robots to Take Over the World (Someday)

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Stanford researchers have designed these incredible little robots are about the size of a quarter for use in atmospheric research on Earth (and one day) on Mars. I just want them for conducting research in my office building.…

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February 4th, 2009 by: Technabob

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