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As promised here is the second video of my newest robot FireFly. She was built for my daughter. As I was talking about the robot to her I called the robot, him. She insisted that FireFly is a she and I agreed with her. I cannot argue with the person that inspires me. The robot reacts to light so that makes him a photovore. This shows his forward and backward movements. It all came together

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Here is the first video about my newest robot FireFly. The name and the idea came from my daughter. She seems to inspire me and I worked with her closely to design specific aspects of the robot. She was the one who decorated the base. She also helped me pick out the base. It is actually a reusable plastic container. The base of the robot is and old part from an old toy. Except for the

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Hello, Yes like the terminator I'm back. Actually I do not go anywhere. I am back writing and looking after my long ignored blog. Like I have said in another blog, yes I have more than one, I do not stop thinking and living. It is just that life intrudes and I feel I have nothing to really contribute, so I stay silent. Now I am known to be expressive of my views. I have the firm belief that

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    Early in the morning in the summer a wonderful vista appears in the southern sky. It is well before sunrise and the stars are visible in the sky like beautiful diamonds in all their splendour. I know a little about astronomy and so I recognize some of the constellations, though I have a feeling I should know more. Now astronomy is a most fascinating subject, and observing the night sky is

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Water Molecule We are blessed to exist on a planet that is covered with so much water. As a species we evolved here on earth, as such a good percentage of our physical makeup is water. It has been said that if you remove the water from our bodies there would be left, at most a few kilograms of common elements. In a Star Trek the Next Generation episode there existed microscopic life

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Here is a video of my Robot Tipsy. He is one of the older BEAM robots I had built a few years back. He worked ever so well and I would feed him with light and he would run ever so slowly. Unfortunately I moved from the basement to the top floor of my house. In the process of the move Tipsy hit the ground so hard that he broke. After almost a year I repaired him. One day I noticed something the

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Hello,You know I was just looking over my old and now ancient blogs from the past and I noticed that some of the comments were in July of last year. What a sense of utter time warping went through me. What has happened in all these months?? Now this question has no answer. Life goes on and on and we can get so busy that we forget what is really important. When I set out on this blog adventure I

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Hello Daniel,I have just sent you an email and I was checking my blog I see you are a follower. It came as an absolute and pleasant suprise. I know I have not been bloging, believe me it is not from lack of ideas and material. I promise to remedy this quickly. Did you get a chance to play that little video of Robo??. I will post some pictures and a rough schematic soon.Pius

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Hello Robo was the name my daughter gave to the robot I designed for to show at the local robot show at the science centre. I have been neglecting this blog and I am not pleased about that so I am going to remedy that soon. I have to figure how to add schematics to the blog so I can show the guts of this cute little machine. I would also like to add videos and a couple of pictures. So as this

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There was a show called Robot Wars that was on weekly on the telly, the tube , T.V. It was a lot of fun to watch. The robots were not true robots. According to my robot mentor, more on him later, true robots equipped with machine intelligence are autonomous and self directing. The robots of this show were remote controlled from the side lines. The competition was light hearted and the machines

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As I begin to write this blog on paper I am listening to a video about the beginning of World War 2. Behind the rise of those idiot dictators was the military. Armies comprised of humans have crossed all parts of our world for most of our history. It seems peace is always so temporary.  Now as I write this I reside in a free country where I am allowed to say or think pretty much what I decide. My

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What happened to me all these long months??? I mean the reason a person starts a blog is to rant every so often. I like getting up on a virtual soapbox and letting people who are kind enough to read my words know what is happenning with me. I have great excuses but in the final analysis there is no excuse for just letting the blog go silent for too long a time. I have read such boring articles

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HelloI have been reading Michio Kaku's works and I have watched many of his videos. He makes very complex science understandable. He sees the near future as a time when man will master the new technologies he has developed and profoundly change the world and the way we live. One of the new revolutions is of course the intelligence one.He realizes that soon we will be able to develop intelligent

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HelloHere I am back from data hell, computer frozen and no access to my precious files. One day I will tell the tale of the twenty three DVDs and nineteen waking hours of blood sweat and tears and a dictionary of curse words.In my life not a single day goes by when my mind does not think about robots. I got robot fever a while ago and if there was a cure I would not take it. I think about robots

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I have several Google alerts to keep me up to date , if that is at all possible. One was titled 'android'. The next day after I had set this one up I awoke and ran, alright, walked to my computer to see what this alert would bring. I anticipated wonderful new ideas , articles about androids, the robots made to look more or less human. Well some company has gotten hold of this term to mean

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HelloActually I am not really looking at you, but I do have your picture for now. Something as common as sight is often taken for granted by us humans who enjoy it.To build a robot that does what we do from day to day is very hard .To have a robot go several feet and stop is not an easy task to accomplish. It takes months of building and programming. I usually build things from scratch and I

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To those who will join this site I have a habit of entering a suitable title and enter. This means that my post is awfully short. However I am learning to get back and enter at least a few words.Steve Grand was kind enough to let me humbly take over some if not all the members at Grandoids. I actually mean if they are willing to take a look at this site. I just set up this blog as a place to talk

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I just hit the enter button and this was going to be a short blog, just like the first one. Well I recovered it in time and this is going to be a bit long winded.One motto I have had for a number of decades has been, if it is not broken do not fix it. As I pass through this world I sense that there are a lot of things broken and we are as a species coming to a crossroad. We need help if we are to

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Hello everyone,You have to admit my first post left a lot to be desired, such as anything at all. My apology goes to those out there who thought there would be something about the one subject I am very passionate about, ROBOTS !!!There is something about these artifacts that I cannot get enough . In this my very own blog I hope on a fairly regular basis comment on this subject and it is my hope

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Hello everyone,This is my first attempt at blooging so I will not write a great deal here.Take carePius

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