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Bookmarks for February 28th

These are my links for February 23rd through February 28th:

• Amazon.com: Roboni-i Programmable Gaming Robot: Toys & Games
  Meet Roboni-i, a highly-intelligent robot that fuses interactive, remote-controlled gameplay with advanced robotic technology. Operated wirelessly using a handheld controller and featuring four processors and 16 sensors, Roboni-i can sense and respond to his environment, explore the room on its own, and even engage in games with other Roboni-i units. A great toy for young robotics enthusiasts, Roboni-i can also be linked to your computer, allowing to reprogram his behavior and upload customized games.
• Free Coloring Book!
  Just click the image above and you'll download a FREE 26 page coloring book featuring Elliott, Lucy, their super-cute pooch Lola and all their friends!
• Just posted – Canon EOS-1D Mark IV in-depth review
  The new model also gets an inevitable megapixel boost (to 16 MP), a full HD movie mode, 921K pixel screen and Dual DIGIC 4 processors.
• Kitty vs. Robot. [VIDEO]
  Kitty vs. Robot.
• MightyOhm » AVR HV Rescue Shield
  The AVR HV Rescue Shield is a high voltage parallel mode fuse programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers.

  It currently supports the ATmega48/88/168/328P series and the ATtiny2313.  The Rescue Shield is based on my Arduino-based AVR High Voltage Programmer, but with several new features and improvements.

• Drilling perfectly centered holes
  If you’ve ever been caught in the situation of needing to drill a clean straight hole down the center of a bolt or rod, you’ve probably tried and ended up with a broken bit or tilted hole, and a ton of cursing to boot.
• SuperDroid Robots – Autonomous Robot Kits and More
• Lux Research: Strategic advice for emerging technologies in nanotech, nanomaterials, solar, and power
• WowWee’s breakthrough toys are flat guitars and drums – Feb. 2, 2010
  Sounds a bit like the ThinkGeek Guitar Shirt, but mounted on paper. I'm requesting a review copy.
• Ridata Lightning Series 32 GB 233x CompactFlash Memory Card
  Now that I'm shooting RAW + jpg with my 50D I think it might be time to get a bigger CF card.

Bookmarks for February 23rd

These are my links for February 19th through February 23rd:

• The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video) — Engadget
• Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster for Space Travel – Breakthrough Awards Innovators 2009 – Popular Mechanics
• Interbots :: We build character.
• Sticker Specials – Printing by Sticker Giant
• robots.net – Robot Builders Forming Hackerspace in Dallas
  If you're in Dallas, join up and help out. Even if you're not local, they're accepting donations from like-minded folks, so throw a few dollars their way if you can.
• ThinkGeek :: KGB Disappearing Ink Pen
• ThinkGeek :: Miracle Berry Fruit Tablets
• ThinkGeek :: Pogo Sketch iPhone/MacBook Stylus
• Toy Fair 2010: Our Favorite Designs for the Young at Heart
  Even more terrifying (in an awesome, mini-bot sort of way) is the new HEXBUG Ant, which rips across surfaces with its six rotating leg-wheels at lightning speed.
• Woot : Toy Fair 2010: Day Two: We Didn’t Quite Believe It Either
  We always like visiting HexBug because they're just so NICE to us! With the exception of the ThinkGeek booth, no one treats us as nicely as HexBug. We're so happy they make cool little robots. Because who doesn't love cool little robots? If they made something lame we'd have to make fun of them and we'd feel really bad since they always treat us like kings.

Bookmarks for February 19th

These are my links for February 10th through February 19th:

• We Just Can’t Help It….. | Joe McNally’s Blog
  The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.
• Engage! Expo – February 16-17, 2010 – New York City
  Will's presentation, "The Evolution of Entertainment, A Toy's Place" will look at toys, play, and the product development process from a new perspective.
• TIA | Toy Fair
• Zotero | Home
  Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.
• Indie Ninja Robot Game ‘Plain Sight’ Gets Release Date – Shacknews – PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads
  Indie developer Beatnik Games has announced that its explosion-happy ninja robot deathmatch game Plain Sight will be released for download on PC on March 22, priced at $9.99.
• Stop-Motion ‘T-Shirt War’ Turns Tees Into Flip Book | Underwire | Wired.com
• Roboni-i | The World’s First Programmable, Interactive, Gaming Robot by Robonica
• Paul | formspring.me
• In Search of the Best Oven-Fried Buffalo Wings | Serious Eats
• The Food Lab: In Search of the Best Oven-Fried Buffalo Wings | Serious Eats

T-SHIRT WAR!! (stop-motion music video)

Bookmarks for February 9th

These are my links for February 5th through February 9th:

• Bestlink Netware
  Some cool, cheap stuff.
• ‘Robot Unicorn Attack’ is as awesome as it sounds | EW.com
  Warning: this post contains a serious time-suck, and you might not get anything else done.
• Open3DP (Open 3D Printing)
  Carl’s Response – “Wow, this is really cool. It’s probably the first replica of a moai that actually matches a real one – usually they are just eyeballed. … I’d love one of these models! … I have more data.”

  We exchanged several emails. What fun! All of this is a great example of why the concept of Creative Commons licensing is important. We knew what our use rights were AND we had information about the data creator.

• Fabbaloo – Fabbaloo Blog – 3D Collaboration Puts 700 Year Old Monolith In Your Hands
  It's amazing what can happen when data is made free. It travels to places where it becomes useful.
• Arduino 018 is released
  The open-source Arduino environment makes it easy to write code and upload it to the i/o board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing, avr-gcc, and other open source software.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  Playing a bit too much of this game, but it is seriously fun.
• ThinkGeek :: Stainless Steel Wallet
• Index of /releases/firebug/1.6X
  The alpha code for firebug.
• Booq Boa slimcase XL
  A cool design for a laptop bag. Too bad they discontinued it.
• Jishaku: Toys & Games
  Interesting magentic game. Sounds like they are releasing a traveling version at the 2010 Toy Fair.

Bookmarks for February 5th

These are my links for January 29th through February 5th:

• Picture 278 « The Tinker « Robot and Ghost
• JSLint, The JavaScript Code Quality Tool
• National Robotics Week
• AnnualCreditReport
  The real free credit report. Run by the FTC and truly free.
• System Shirts — Binary
• Robotics Toys – Online Stores
• Custom PCB Prototyping using a Laser Cutter
• Michael Doornbos » iPad vs. a Rock
  Comparing an iPad to a Rock. The iPad wins by a hair.
• Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day.
• freeciv-forever – Project Hosting on Google Code

“A.D.” teaser (ZOMBIE ANIMATION)

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