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...

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)....

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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...