It's gonna be easier to get a Nintendo Wii.
I WANT THE NEW PHONE NOW NOW NOW!
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It's gonna be easier to get a Nintendo Wii.
I WANT THE NEW PHONE NOW NOW NOW!
I WANT THE WII AND THE NEW PHONE NOW NOW NOW!!!
(okay, actually not, but it needed to be one-upped said.)
They promised Google CEO Eric Schmidt one onstage because he's on the board of Apple. Yahoo CEO Jerry Schmidt said "I know I'm not on the board, but can I have one, too?" (yeah, he's not going to have any problem...)
I wish it wasn't tied in to Cingular (which I thought was about to die anyway?) but still, WANT.
Anybody ever do any microcontroller programming? I just bought one of these: [link]
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I also bought a sonar thingie and some servos - I'm gonna build a Sonic Death Ray. OK, not really. A sonar camera. It will pan the sonar (an ultrasonic range finder - [link] ) up and down, left and right, and build a 3-D image of whatever's in front of it.
I wish it wasn't tied in to Cingular (which I thought was about to die anyway?)
really? i hadn't heard about this. i'm actually pretty happy with my Cingular service. i've pretty much tried them all at this point.
gonna build a Sonic Death Ray. OK, not really. A sonar camera. It will pan the sonar (an ultrasonic range finder - [link] ) up and down, left and right, and build a 3-D image of whatever's in front of it.
Seriously, tommyrot? That's so cool.
Seriously, tommyrot? That's so cool.
Yeah, it's pretty much just hooking together off-the-shelf components (even the two servos with tilt and pan mechanism came as a kit from a robotics company). The hardest part will be programming the microcontroller (and also programming my laptop to communicate with the microcontroller via USB) but for me that'll be the fun part.
I wish it wasn't tied in to Cingular (which I thought was about to die anyway?)
Cingular is owned by AT&T, right? So I doubt it's going to die. At worst, it would be absorbed by AT&T.