telnet to oculus

telnet to oculus

News update: Oculus can now be purchased via RobotShop.com in most counties. As a follow up to the blog on using good old telnet to control oculus, I’ll give a few examples of how you can test your own scripts. A standard telnet session from my OSX machine follows, note...
sending gmail attachments from android

sending gmail attachments from android

Here is a simple class to send yourself a gmail from your Arndoid phone, which can be something like the T-Mobile Samsung phones. You’ll need mail.jar in your eclipse project, but the rest is just this one class below. We are using this to test on the chair bot (OpenPAW)....
oculus ROV

oculus ROV

My friend Colin has project that I’ve been helping him test for the last few months.. and now oculus finally ready for market! Colin has made bikes and my custom climbing rig in the past, but he has always wanted to make affordable wifi robots. The key to oculus is...
aldebaran robotics' nao

aldebaran robotics’ nao

Solid state sensors and high torque servos are getting cheaper all the time, but it is the software methodologies that needed to change for walking to be considered a “primitive behavior”. Any kids learning about robots would, and should, assume that we have walking sorted. Getting back into standing from...
have a go day

have a go day

Update: see photos here. Summer is in full swing and we are going to set up the climbing rig in Squamish on August 21st. We have done this route several times, but with everyone in different jobs. I’m going to put all the details here because much of the planning...
sexual health videos

sexual health videos

These are a few videos we made with Dr. Elliott(sexual health doctor) disguising sperm retrieval and vibro-stimulation with Dr Ip (family doctor). This is basic information for quadriplegics that are going through rehab and want to avoid dangerous Autonomic Dysreflexia while being sexual. More here on TED
dangers of boosting

dangers of boosting

I’ve seen “Dr K” at his clinic and recommend him to anyone dealing with Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD). I’ve copied an article here to make sure it doesn’t disappear. http://www.webcommunications.ubc.ca/ubc2010/2009/04/28/researcher-aims-to-end-paralympic-boosting/ Dr. Andrei Krassioukov wants the International Paralympic Committee to change how athletes are evaluated – Photo by Martin Dee If Dr....
"high roller" does uncle ben's route

"high roller" does uncle ben’s route

Brad and Dave on the "Uncle Ben's" route. This roof section was chosen as a testing grounds for larger climbs in California. We were "lucky" to some get strong wind on this day. Instead of suffering in hot sun all day, we froze instead... but could get good understanding of...
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performance boosting

performance boosting

Performance Boosting with Autonomic Dysreflexia This page will hold data and evaluation of “boosting” experiments that I’m doing in order to get my heart and blood pressure to respond appropriately while climbing.  See ramp wheeling tests to learn more about post exercise hypotension (EH) , and why this limits performance in most quadriplegics.  First some...
oculus circuit boards shipping

oculus circuit boards shipping

After well exceeding Colin’s kickstarter goal, circuit boards are getting turned out on mass. How would much you enjoy boot loading a 100 PCB’s in your garage?Colin says it’s zen like. I really prefer writing code, breaking things etc. Cool new 3d sensor for Oculus is available for developers. More information on the new page...
oculus on kick starter

oculus on kick starter

Now you pledge support (buy a robot or a shirt) to support Colin’s garage alliance of robot builders and coders. Kick Starter is a really cool way to crowd source funds and interest for your new project. Lots of clever devices you wouldn’t get with the current, odious venture capital game. The bot has also...

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new battery and chair mount

new battery and chair mount

From drawing board to being ready to install in single day? Colin, same guy that is now selling wifi robots, salvaged an old power drill to go with the new Lithium-ion battery pack for my chair. More Ardiuno and IOIO protects are possible now that I have a power supply I can remove and charge...

oculus developer

New updates to open source projects this week. You can get from SVN Trunk. Basically this is a developer API to control the bot. You can send commands and get notifications about changes. This lets a 3rd party application hook in even without the web based GUI. So, you are free to write your own...

wheel from ICORD

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red route one

Testing android GPS and wheeling around my block. Will use this course as the base line for testing openPAW.

health and fitness journal

I’ve been paid to write about computers and sensors, make graphs etc.. But this is the first thing that has ever been peer reviewed.  Here I was given a chance to, “tell it like it is”, to some out of touch scientists! Joking aside, there is some things about science that I very much dislike....

better text entry for disability

In past posts, I’ve ranted about resistive vs capacitive screens for typing. Apple’s phone and tablet are great, but as a quad with poor hand function, most will prefer to use a finger nail to type. On my Nokia 5800 this works well and the new firmware has better smooth scrolling (inertia in the flicking...

the world nuked itself over 2,000 times

This made me feel ill…watching the nukes go off as your birthday goes by. Pretty disgusting way to spend allot of money! So now that the cold war is over, how does the MAD Doctrine keep the balance? If a terrorist bomb goes off, no one knows how allegiances will shift. Lots of books (Tom...

super tankers a threat?

Regardless of how you feel about big oil companies, government and hippie activists… light needs to be shed on how many super tankers are in local waters. One good friend that works in the environmental business (yes that’s a business like any other) says that it is not fair to compare the unending leak from...