Qbo the Open Source Robot
I fell in love with Qbo the first time I saw it. If you are not familar with Qbo it is an open sourse robot from a startup called TheCorpora. I would love to get my hands on one of these. It is just about the perfect present from a geek Day to his geek son. Growning up I had a BigTrak. This was what I thought of when I first saw the Qbo. The BigTrak was tank like vehicle that you could program to drive around. You set the distance and direction via a pad on the back. I loved that toy and did a presentation on it in school one year. Think Greek sells a scaled down version of the...
Read MoreiPad Snowboard
With all this Kindle Fire/Android talk lately I needed to make an Apple post. Can’t think of a better one than Every Third Thursday’s new project from Signal Snowboards. Putting an iPad into a ridable snowboard. Very cool! Also check out their Fender bass snowboard build and their Lethal Weapon Paintball build. The ETT team is just...
Read MoreKindle Fire
Terra and I ordered two Kindle Fires as Christmas gifts for the two youngest kids. This will be their big gift this year. Amazon should be shipping them this week. I only hope we ordered ours in enough time for Christmas. As popular as the pre-order was for Amazon there might be back order period for a while. If you are thinking about one of these check out the lenthy review over at The Verge. The review is what I was expecting. For the kids the Kindle Fire will be their movie watching, music playing, gaming on the go machine. Also, I think Noah will read on it instead of buying books. ...
Read MoreDear Santa….
… all I want for Christmas is my very own ASIMO. Wow, old ASIMO has come a long way. It seems like just yesterday that ASIMO was only good for falling down stairs.
Read MoreGoogle TV + Plex = Media Server Heaven
I spend about two hours last night running cables through the wall from my Mac Mini to my home theater system. I wanted to get Plex running to the theater room. You see I moved my Mac Mini out of the theather room a while ago so the only opportunity to watch my ripped movie collection is on a 23” monitor in the bar area. After getting everything hooked up then I spend the vast majority of my time trying to get the resulution correct. I am running 3 monitors with the 23”, a 7” and then the theather projector. After about two hours I gave up. I just couldn’t get it...
Read MoreGoogle TV Update Coming Soon
It is long overdue but Google TV is about to get a big update in the next few weeks. Today I received an email from Google detailing the changes. I am most excited about the ability to download apps from their Android app center. This functionality is really going to make Google TV worth it. If you remember I was giving my Google TV as part of a developer program so I did not pay for it. I was very disappointed until I finished my home theater. Now we use it all the time. I will follow up when the updated is installed and give a quick overview. Maybe I will shoot a video recap of the...
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