tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156251492011-04-22T05:42:17.096+02:00I've got better things to do than write in this blog. Oh wait...Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-43236532294911586182007-11-03T20:47:00.000+01:002008-12-09T21:41:45.948+01:00

This is a billboard for the opera Siegfried , last part in the opera-trilogy Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and (duh) Siegfried from Richard Wagner.The billboard stirred up a quite a bit of commotion in Belgium, but as you can see, it is in the streets now. Their website is also something a bit different from what you'd expect from an operahouse: link

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-84743573107339075372007-03-22T16:28:00.000+01:002008-12-09T21:41:46.724+01:00

This BEAMbot is different in three ways.1) It doesn't use a motor but the lens-positioning system for a CD-ROM drive,2) It looks pretty pretty,3) Errr... It doesn't work as it should. As in: not at all...Quick and dirty, since it doesn't work, heh:The Body:Two bigger and two smaller discarded electrolytic capacitors, glued together after I stripped them bare of the plastic casing, and copper legs

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-27535238035704157062007-03-08T13:30:00.000+01:002008-12-09T21:41:46.886+01:00

Got an email today that said 'Happy Birthday!' which is a bit weird because my birthday is January 4. And no, it was not spam, just a thingie auto-mailed from a messageboard. An email that took a little over three months to reach me, good thing email is never used for important stuff, huh?

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-35687428089992382862007-02-19T13:32:00.000+01:002008-12-09T21:41:47.138+01:00

Sometimes shooting on old fashioned film and developing it and then printing it on nice paper yields lovely results. This was a picture that I initially thought was a dud, but it turned out quite interesting. I just found it back while going through some stuff, it's dated from December 2005, so not very recent, still I like it a lot because it was one of the very first prints I ever made at home.

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1170945068403896452007-02-08T15:26:00.000+01:002007-02-08T20:15:55.515+01:00

The category Linux software on Wikipedia has been eradicated: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Linux_softwareWeird, because there is still a Windows and OSX category.On the discussion page it is argued most programs were not Linux-specific, but IMHO that's hardly a reason to just nuke a whole category.

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1152805888645661602006-07-13T17:09:00.000+02:002006-07-14T14:47:24.693+02:00

Okay, so I built my 'Calimero' robot, that is to say, the robot itself, only to then discover that building a statuette out of styrofoam and papier-maché wasn't something I turned out to be any good at.Long cursing and messing with sticky wads of paper story short: I decided to scrap the little project, Calimero looked more like E.T., sigh...So... I had a functional robot, which worked flawlessly

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1152469938798476422006-07-09T17:24:00.000+02:002006-07-09T22:22:04.953+02:00

Now that I've finally come around to reach around to the back of my computer to insert an S-video cable so I can digitise some pictures, I am able to (albeit grottily) document some more stuff I cobble together... And waste some more time writing about it here :)So... Introducing my 'Calimero' BEAM robot.BEAM robotics is the brain child of Mark W. Tilden. BEAM stands for a triple acronym:

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1150543911696251532006-06-17T13:31:00.000+02:002006-06-17T13:37:02.676+02:00

Been reading a bit in the latest Science&Vie (Excellent French mag.) My French is quite rusty, but well, I manage, and there's lots of pretty pictures :)The latest special issue is about the evolution of extinct hominids, great stuff, really.One of the artist drawings was of an early hominid, heroically grabbing a burning branch, in the midst of a bush-fire.So it depicts an era when man wasn't

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1143897710448784482006-04-01T15:04:00.000+02:002006-04-01T15:21:51.656+02:00

So I visit the grocery department, and without much thinking, I pick up a bag of fresh green beans, absentmindedly wondering in what kind of greenhouse these would've been grown. In this day and age, you can eat season's vegetables year-round, but I tend to try and stick to the veggies that don't come from greenhouses, because when I was a kid I once saw on educational T.V. that the energy used

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1142376886809120352006-03-14T23:15:00.000+01:002006-03-15T00:08:52.950+01:00

Heehee.Sounds like the title for a punk song, but this is exactly the words Chris Phoenix used to make me feel quite happy and honoured...About an hour or so ago, he granted me Bureaucrat privileges to the Wise-Nano Project, "a collaborative website to study the facts and implications of advanced nanotechnology," in the form of a Wiki.Now, I'm absolutely not pretending I know a lot about

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1138897667227962502006-02-02T17:04:00.000+01:002006-02-02T17:45:03.336+01:00

Just to give you an idea how it looks like when there's a creature fairly well evolved...This one's at generation 729, max distance travelled: 45.97 and it's not going anywhere fast... But this creature:is more promising, after only 19 generations it was around 30, now it's inching towards 43, yay!Video of second one, hosted on YouTube:I used SaverLab from Dozing Cat Software, because currently

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1138824786312411712006-02-01T21:08:00.000+01:002006-02-01T21:13:06.323+01:00

breve http://www.spiderland.org/breve/"breve is a free, open-source software package which makes it easy to build 3D simulations of decentralized systems and artificial life. Users define the behaviors of agents in a 3D world and observe how they interact. breve includes physical simulation and collision detection so you can simulate realistic creatures, and an OpenGL display engine so you can

Rxkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17565836792100064583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625149.post-1138811930793341922006-02-01T03:35:00.000+01:002006-02-02T18:54:43.173+01:00

http://people.artcenter.edu/~berk/alavs/#abstractThey call it art, rather than technology, and when you watch the video's, you have to agree it is beautiful, the majestic movements, the whale-like sounds...Of course, I had to think about Mars rightaway... Martian atmosphere, although thin, is mainly CO2, so it is quite heavy, there's a wide choice for buoyant gasses to choose from: Helium,

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