Bill W
About: I am super cool. At least that is what I program my robots to tell me.
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Velodyne LIDAR HDL-64E demo
Bruce Hall, President of Velodyne LIDAR demonstrates the HDL-64E. The 64E is a ground breaking laser vision system that crushed the competition at the 2007 DARPA urban challenge. Today, Velodyne sells the 64E (list price $75,000) to organizations wishing to integrate 1″ accuracy GIS data at highway speeds.
Robot executives featured in SciVestor workshop
On Friday, October 24th, SciVestor and The Singularity Institute present the Emerging Technologies Workshop. This event is sold out, and is being held at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The day’s agenda follows: Schedule 8:30am Doors open 9:00am [...]
Readybot! Where have you been all my life?
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the Readybot Challenge is a non-profit research group composed of senior engineers and designers from the networking, motion control, ergonomics, and software industries. Their mission: to build a robot that can clean a kitchen.
Skilligent Takes Siam UAV to the Skies
When scientists at NASA send a command to a robot on Mars, it can take between 8 and 42 minutes before the operator knows that the command was performed successfully. Even here on earth, commands sent to local robots may still take up to a second to to be performed. It doesn’t sound like a [...]
Stereoscopic Computer Vision Just got a Leg Up
When Stanford University won the DARPA Grand Challenge in ‘05 the team made clear their philosophy that autonomous navigation should be treated as a software problem. While other teams spent their resources on building custom hardware, Dr. Sebastian Thrun simply sent his Stanford team’s Volkswagen Touareg off to get converted to [...]
Three Questions with Sam Kherat, Caterpillar
At the recent National Instruments NI Week event, SciVestor caught up with Dr. Sam Kherat, manager of the Pittsburgh Automation Center for Caterpillar. Dr. Kherat talks about CATs vision of autonomous heavy vehicles, their focus on sensing technologies, and their partnership with NI.
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Did anyone else make a live web recommender for links? If so, post it here. I am intersted to see what other people did.
Here is mine:
If you get a 503 message, it is because you are being too aggressive with the del.icio.us servers and got throttled. Here is the link that explains it:
Is anyone else having problems with the del.icio.us assignment. Everything was working fine and then suddenly I started getting this error. Is any one else experiencing the same thing. Looks like the server crashed.
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 783, in get_urlposts
return getrss(url = url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 774, in getrss
return dlcs_rss_request(tag=tag, popular=popular, user=user, url=url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 414, in dlcs_rss_request
rss = http_request(url).read()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 261, in http_request
raise PyDeliciousException, "%s" % e
pydelicious.PyDeliciousException: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
I added a section to the bottom of HW2 on the wiki for people to place links to their homepage. Seemed like an efficient way to visit everyone's site quickly and generate a lot of good data.