Spot is a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. Spot has a sensor head that helps it navigate and negotiate rough terrain. Spot weighs about 160 lbs. Related: Atlas, Petman, BigDog, LittleDog, etc.
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Millenium Falcon Quadrocopter
Every Frame A Painting: Drive (2011) – The Quadrant System
One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most of the images follow a simple quadrant system, Refn puts plenty of subtle touches within the frame. Let’s take a look. Related: Wes Anderson Centered → A filmographer’s POV →
What is i3 anyway?
A Most Violent Year | NYC, 1981 | A Documentary Short
The ServiceWorker is coming, look busy!
Look at the apps on your homescreen. Why are they native? Why aren’t they just on the web? Its usually some combination of push messaging, background sync, offline & performance. When native has something the web doesn’t, we should consider it a bug. Let’s have a look at the fixes, focusing on the ServiceWorker. By …
Chrome DevTools Animation Controls
Interstellar: The Journey of Your Lifetimes
KeySweeper – Log all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard
KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboards (using proprietary 2.4GHz RF) in the area. Keystrokes are sent back to the KeySweeper operator over the Internet via an optional GSM chip, …
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CURVED/labs: A Facelift for the Macintosh
The Macintosh is a computer with history: with its first desktop computer “Lisa” Apple showed more than 30 years ago not only what was technically possible – the design of the iMac & Co. regularly causes stir. For CURVED/labs a good reason to develop a pioneering anniversary model for Apple that can not deny its …
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